The balance during the first two years felt amazing. I was so energized by the first days that I spent the second days revisiting to a ton of makers I’d met the first day to talk more. And I still didn’t see everything.
This year my friends and I felt it swayed a bit far to sponsored booths. There were fewer cool experiences (like the mini-golf) and I’d seen everything in one day. We wondered if the cool booths got denied in favor of ones that could pay more.
We still had great conversations and met incredible people, but felt we had to work harder to find it.
That said.. I think William’s team has been in a deficit each year and he said in his OpenSauce+ video how he is trying to be more sustainable.. I still remember buying the $69.69 early early bird ticket on the way out of 2023 for 2024 just to help them cover existing costs.
I really hope they figure it out. It’s such a great environment and has a great team behind it
That was a fun mobile challenge! I just exported my Google Maps Timeline, used ChatGPT to convert it to a CSV of points, and then made a heatmap with Kepler’s grid layer.. I had to tweak the color breaks a bit or else it only highlighted my home and (old) office
CARTO is more focused on backend pipelines and large-scale data (where everything needs to be tiled before it can be visualized), while Kepler is a great last-mile visualization tool. It probably makes more sense for enterprises that scale beyond what Kepler can do.
That said, credit where it’s due - their engineering team is a super active contributor to the deck.gl framework powering kepler.gl.
It’d be great to have contributors join our collaborator summit [0] in the Seattle area this fall!
It’s a free event, supported by the OpenJS Foundation, kepler.gl’s host foundation.
We’re expecting to have a session from Shan, the creator of Kepler.gl as well as Ilya, the creator of SQLRooms. We’re still accepting session proposals as well [1]!
Mapbox is just a small step away from that with their MCP server wrapping their pay-by-use API. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a subscription offering with usage limits if that somehow appealed to them. MapTiler already offers their service as a subscription so they’re even closer if they hosted a server like this on their own.
Pretty incredible result having followed along on MattKC Byte’s YouTube channel for a couple of years. Their GitHub projects have become a great resource for software preservation projects.
This tool says it includes a workflow GUI and refinement tools, like creating work-specific text recognition models - maybe the others do too? tesseract isn’t packaged with a GUI, but is wrapped by many.
This project seems focused on making tools more accessible and helping the user be more efficient and organized
As Philip points out, Sabine Hossenfelder’s quick summary on LK-99 2 weeks ago punched large holes into this whole thing in less than 5 minutes. I wish media outlets presented skeptic viewpoints instead of just hype.. but that doesn’t sell.
This year my friends and I felt it swayed a bit far to sponsored booths. There were fewer cool experiences (like the mini-golf) and I’d seen everything in one day. We wondered if the cool booths got denied in favor of ones that could pay more.
We still had great conversations and met incredible people, but felt we had to work harder to find it.
That said.. I think William’s team has been in a deficit each year and he said in his OpenSauce+ video how he is trying to be more sustainable.. I still remember buying the $69.69 early early bird ticket on the way out of 2023 for 2024 just to help them cover existing costs.
I really hope they figure it out. It’s such a great environment and has a great team behind it