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Friday, 17th February 2023

Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS. iOS and iPadOS 16.4 beta 1 finally brings web push notifications to iOS. User’s need to add an app to their home screen and then approve notification access to get this functionality, which also includes the ability for apps to update a badge on their icon. Thankfully you don’t need paid membership of the Apple Developer Program ($99/year) in order to send notifications.

# 12:28 am / safari, ios

Release datasette-app-support 0.11.7 — Part of https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app
Release datasette-app-support 0.11.8 — Part of https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app

How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions (via) Kevin Schaul describes the Washington Post’s emerging open source GIS stack: OpenMapTiles, Maputnik, PMTiles and Maplibre-gl-js.

# 6:45 pm / maps, opensearch, openstreetmap, washington-post

Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk

My post Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” really took off.

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