How I built an interactive atlas of 767 train routes (React + MapLibre + open data)
I spent a summer building TrainRouter — a free, no-signup interactive map of 767 of the world's notable train routes across 118 countries , from the G…
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🚀 India Village Finder Introduces Farmer Schemes & Farm-Input Insights
Village Finder is an open-source, serverless, and multilingual map tracking over 78,000 villages across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Tami…
PHP Attributes Can Help Your Docs, But They Won’t Save Them
PHP attributes are a useful documentation tool, but they are a terrible documentation strategy on their own. That is the short version. The appeal is …
8 Free Food & Nutrition APIs (No Key, Tested 2026)
On July 8, 2026 I looked up a barcode that does not exist. Eight zeros. I sent them to Open Food Facts, the largest open nutrition database on the web…
How to Verify a Canadian Contractor Licence — Free Lookup + API (2026)
Every year, homeowners in Canada lose money to unlicensed contractors — and every province has an official registry that would have caught the problem…
10 Free Government APIs With No Key or Signup (2026)
On July 6, 2026 I asked REST Countries for the United States. It answered HTTP 200. Green light, ship it. Then I read the body: "success":false , "dat…
sudo 'schland just give me my data
There's an old xkcd. Guy says "make me a sandwich." Gets refused. Says "sudo make me a sandwich." Gets a sandwich. I've been running the same play, ex…
I rebuilt a Texas city's open data portal in 30 minutes with Claude Code
The City of Kyle, TX has an open data portal. That already puts it ahead of most cities its size: budgets, investment reports, police data, water util…
Who actually feels lost about Germany's new automatic platform and crypto tax reporting? (a pandas cut)
Since January 2026, if you sell on eBay or Vinted, rent a room on Airbnb, or trade on Coinbase or Bitpanda, the platform now reports your income strai…
Europe's brain drain: the biggest loser flips when you normalize per 1,000 residents
Here is a question I could not answer from the headlines: which European countries are actually losing people the fastest, in absolute terms or per ca…
I cleaned India's Census 2011 data so you never have to
Every Indian data scientist hits the same wall. You need district-level population data. You go to censusindia.gov.in. You find hundreds of inconsiste…