PMTiles is amazing. We discovered it when we were building a Canadian wildfire hotspot map this summer.
We were taking daily CSV files, turning them into vector tiles, syncing them with S3, and displaying in mapbox-gl map. The biggest cost was S3 file operations. We had to aggressively cluster to reduce our cost down and got to a point where the tiles numbered ~75,000. At the frequency we wanted to update this was costing $500/mo in S3 ops.
Now we process the files into a single PMTiles file, deploy that one file and cut the costs down to pennies.
For a map that we make public, it was incredibly enabling. You can checkout the Canadian hotspot data for all of 2023 if you're curious: https://lens.pathandfocus.com
I have two gandi accounts (one for personal, one for business). Managing that can be a pain sometimes. I also use dnsimple for more complicated and team needs. Gandi is cheaper for simpler things, so I want to keep most of my domains there.
Nuage has a very simple UI (much easier to use compared to gandi, imo)
Sometimes commutes are unavoidable, but I've found that podcasts and audiobooks make this time feel less wasted and helps regain the time taken away from personal entertainment time when working on side-projects.
If it's a good book or episode I sometimes look forward to the time to myself in my car.
Totally agree! Seeing that the Filepicker team is responsive to this kind of public feedback and are reaching out to the author in a appreciative and collaborative way speaks volumes about their character.
Even more excited to get Filepicker implemented now!
Totally agree... site specific TFA apps is already starting to get a big silly. Battle.net, Google, my Bank... three is already starting to be a pain to manage and install.
We were taking daily CSV files, turning them into vector tiles, syncing them with S3, and displaying in mapbox-gl map. The biggest cost was S3 file operations. We had to aggressively cluster to reduce our cost down and got to a point where the tiles numbered ~75,000. At the frequency we wanted to update this was costing $500/mo in S3 ops.
Now we process the files into a single PMTiles file, deploy that one file and cut the costs down to pennies.
For a map that we make public, it was incredibly enabling. You can checkout the Canadian hotspot data for all of 2023 if you're curious: https://lens.pathandfocus.com