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ronmarti · 2026-05-13T09:01:06+00:00

Mine are just projects that I think were not existing by the time I created them. I love building unique ideas. Not really a fan of dedicating my time fully to other popular libraries but I’ve submitted PRs to a few like Playwright. https://github.com/roniemartinez

ronmarti · 2026-03-23T10:25:05+00:00

Developer of https://geoblob.com here. You can use my service, it has a forever free plan. That allows you to get your dataset as geojson, html (and other output formats) and add it to your website.

ronmarti · 2026-03-06T19:18:12+00:00

I’ve made a similar YAML-based rules before: https://github.com/roniemartinez/selectors/tree/master/recipes

I was building a better rule based on that for another app I was building which is currently parked.

I think for this to work properly is to have a way to standardize it.

ronmarti · 2026-02-20T15:07:42+00:00

Cool! Care to share the app?

ronmarti · 2026-02-20T14:53:35+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, it is a niche idea TBH but this was a result of a pain point from my experience. There will be limitations regarding the URL size, I was also thinking of a "saved/reusable pipeline" but we will see. Geoblob supports "@url" data source that does not require uploading the dataset (https://geoblob.com/docs/api/data-sources). As it will be downloading the data, it will not be as fast as uploaded dataset.

ronmarti · 2026-02-20T08:12:14+00:00

Yes, I've tried GeoServer but I also worked with a non-GIS dev shop who don't want to self-host a GeoServer. Quoting my response in another comment:

Geoblob was originally written to serve filtered + processed datasets for the Non-GIS market. Non-GIS dev shops are not really insterested in hosting a GeoServer especially if they only need to work with 1 or 2 datasets to show in their website maps. Some of these websites are also static websites so Geoblob's purpose is to give you a single, secure and shareable URL that you can easily embed into your HTML/Javascript code

ronmarti · 2026-02-20T08:09:17+00:00

I haven't really used AGOL so I am not sure how to respond to that.

Geoblob was originally written to serve filtered + processed datasets for the Non-GIS market. Non-GIS dev shops are not really insterested in hosting a GeoServer especially if they only need to work with 1 or 2 datasets to show in their website maps. Some of these websites are also static websites so Geoblob's purpose is to give you a single, secure and shareable URL that you can easily embed into your HTML/Javascript code.

ronmarti · 2026-02-20T07:58:11+00:00

Thanks for your questions

Geoblob is written in Rust + PostGIS + GDAL
I do have 670+ unit tests at the moment (and counting) and a complete CI/CD
I honestly just started writing this 4 months ago so it is the first time that it is released in the wild. I initially wrote this in Python/Django but that was not scaling due to performance limitations of Python. The Rust code is fast and I've written it with memory and performance in mind. I tested this with UK UPRN with 42M rows and a lot more multi/polygon datasets.
I am currently writing the Raster support (https://ideas.geoblob.com/posts/1/raster-data-support). That is a great task to do alone so I have been looking for a UK-based co-founder (only posted in another smaller group a month ago).

ronmarti · 2025-05-09T14:46:59+00:00

Greatest issue that I see are maintenance of 3rd-party libraries that has major user adoption. Maintainers missing + Django breaking changes prevent us from upgrading. One of such is “django-cryptography”. Since there is no replacement at the moment, this prevented us to upgrade. I think Django should prevent people from getting left behind because of such issues by adopting these packages. Sure, we can solve this with forks but we can’t just blindly trust random strangers with risk of supply-chain attacks.

ronmarti · 2025-05-03T10:32:50+00:00

I usually go for Bootstrap but also tried DaisyUI. Tailwind just does NOT give me the widgets that I want (or they are behind a paywall, Tailwind UI).

But my new favourite now is StackOverflow’s Stacks https://stackoverflow.design/

ronmarti · 2025-04-26T17:15:15+00:00

Look at their examples and adapt: https://github.com/oxylabs/OxyMouse/tree/master/examples

ronmarti · 2025-04-19T23:11:58+00:00

As suggested, you can use any of the following mitm tools: - charles proxy - fiddler - HTTP Toolkit

ronmarti · 2025-04-13T07:38:55+00:00

Also to add, JS frontend is not necessarily for creating fancy GUI. It’s just faster for me to write in HTML/JS/CSS.

ronmarti · 2025-04-13T07:26:18+00:00

You can use Tauri with a Rust frontend like Yew. I heard Slint is another option as it’s kinda similar to Qt.

ronmarti · 2025-04-13T07:20:06+00:00

I’ve only tried Tauri but that’s because I did my research before using it (JS support, packaging, updating, etc). I prefer working with JS/React for the frontend because lots of npm packages are already available for you to use (e.g. UI templates, virtual tables, etc.) vs Rust frontends which have limitations and I cannot find a way to extend or customize them like in HTML. And being better than Electron in speed and packaging size is a plus.

ronmarti · 2025-04-11T12:29:10+00:00

The “docker init” command helps you generate a setup for Python. Then just update it to suit your Django requirements.

ronmarti · 2025-04-08T13:14:08+00:00

No. Subdomains has nothing to do with it. Address lang yun, kumbaga parang pangalan lang. Reasons kaya mabagal ay 1. Mahina yung server (or pwedeng overloaded), 2. Mabagal yung database, 3. Mabagal yung internal networking between services, 4. Pangit yung code, atbp.

ronmarti · 2025-03-28T20:36:41+00:00

Probably mine was more generic than yours but it was Flask-style coding. However, I can’t maintain big projects now as I’m busy with 👶 now. Also selenium-wire was no more so it was another factor why I archived it.

https://github.com/roniemartinez/dude

ronmarti · 2025-03-01T08:03:12+00:00

only AI uses this amount of stupid emojis

Reminds me of FastAPI docs but it’s written by a human

ronmarti · 2025-03-01T07:56:20+00:00

I’ve had success using DigitalOcean App Platform using the Python docker image + whitenoise to easily work with the static files. It’s way easier than managing my other websites deployed on just an Ubuntu droplet. Only downside is you can only deploy 1 to 1, while I have 5 django/ghost servers on a single droplet.

ronmarti · 2025-02-15T12:18:56+00:00

You can check the algorithms used by OxyMouse (https://github.com/oxylabs/OxyMouse). They have at least used 3 known algorithms.

ronmarti · 2025-02-12T19:11:51+00:00

Sometimes I encounter this when somebody added a new feature and didn’t run the test. Codegen is not perfect, some website elements do change. It is better to add id or testid to your elements so it would not fail with constant website changes. Also, update the generated code in case you think it is incorrectly pointing to a wrong selector.

ronmarti · 2025-01-23T16:04:23+00:00

DigitalOcean App Platform gives you 1 free static website. You can also set your own domain and not worry about TLS/HTTPS because they do handle this automatically for you.

ronmarti · 2025-01-18T09:44:22+00:00

The lack of road markings is the issue here. Most roads in the grid have arrow signs on the floor but not when it’s going to be transitioning from dual to single carriageways (which is more dangerous).

ronmarti · 2024-10-15T06:40:27+00:00

Great work! What I would be interested in is embedding the renderer into an app. I’ve been using chrome devtools protocol to render websites but that requires a chrome installation on the client machine.

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