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Better late than never, the GeoJS 2024 update is finally here! 2024 was a record-breaking year for GeoJS. Traffic grew significantly compared to previous years, with December smashing all previous records at over 8.6 billion requests in a single month. This easily beats the previous monthly peak of 6.2 billion back in February 2021. Traffic remained relatively stable through the first half of the…
When I originally created GeoJS back in 2017 , it ran on DigitalOcean and Vultr clouds with traffic being load-balanced by AWS’ Route53 DNS service. I was extremely lucky that DigitalOcean sponsored the project for the first few years, completely covering the cost of the servers hosted by them. GeoJS ran like this for two years until the amount of all the DNS lookups meant the Route53 bill…
Another slow year done for GeoJS. Traffic was again up and down but peaked at the end with over 5.5 billion requests in a single month. It still doesn’t quite beat the February 2021 peak of 6.2 billion but is still a large amount of traffic. Like last year, traffic was up and down month on month. November saw the biggest spike with 21% growth. Month Requests Growth January 4,401,142,677…
Another year done for GeoJS. Traffic was all over the shop this year with a gradual incline as the year went but nowhere near the all time high of January last year. Seven months saw a traffic increase last year unlike 2021 which only saw six. In reality traffic levels don’t matter anymore and I’m just happy the service is still being used. Month Requests Growth January 2,894,213,509…
Last year was a rough year for GeoJS with a general downtrend in traffic to the service. Around mid-March, requests dropped by roughly five hundred million requests a day resulting in a 35% dip in traffic. Only six months saw a traffic increase with the remaining six seeing negative growth. Month Requests Growth January 5,261,437,972 13.0% February 6,243,650,585 18.6% March 4,048,358,836 -35.1%…
Shamelessly stolen Inspired by Jim Nielson’s post I thought I’d replace my blogroll with a more curated list of feeds I enjoy. Less “big list of links” more “here’s a list I think you might enjoy”. Personal sites I follow a fair few personal blogs about technology and other aspects of life. This list is a few of my handpicked favourites in no order at all.
I recently had to move a whole lot of GitHub issues between two repos before disabling them on the source repo. The GitHub UI lets you migrate single issues but that would take hours since some of the repos had over a hundred issues. Thankfully the GitHub CLI lets you transfer issues pragmatically like so: gh issue transfer <issue ID> <destination repo> So a few shell pipes later and we have this:
This site has both RSS and JSON feeds that you can use to subscribe using your feed reader of choice. Personally, I use Miniflux . Here are a few of the popular ones: All content: RSS , JSON Posts archive: RSS , JSON Notes: RSS , JSON GeoJS blog: RSS , JSON Each tag also has a feed specific to it which you can view on the tags page.
I’ve been using Fastmail as my email provider since I first started migrating away from Gmail back in 2015. Its been a fantastic service that I haven’t ever regretted paying for. When I started out they had an IMAP importer that let you pick and choose which folders you wanted to import. It was great since it let me migrate my email in bite sized chunks as I slowly changed my email on…
GeoJS is extremely lucky to be supported by some amazing companies like Cloudflare and DigitalOcean. Without them the project wouldn’t be able to serve the billions of requests and terabytes of traffic it does monthly. Today I’m happy to announce that you can now support GeoJS through GitHub Sponsors . GitHub Sponsors lets you show your appreciation for all the open source projects you…