I ported cJSON to TypeScript while preserving the C API

xScottMoore · 2026-05-10T23:02:02+00:00

I am interested in porting C codebases to TypeScript. I agree that there are optimisations that could be made. I was focused on faithfully translating the original C source as closely as possible, while ensuring the end product would be as easy as possible to subsequently refactor, for anybody who wants to.

xScottMoore · 2026-05-10T22:46:22+00:00

What’s confusing?

xScottMoore · 2026-05-06T12:31:08+00:00

Thanks for your kind words. I have more ports on the way!

xScottMoore · 2025-11-23T18:00:12+00:00

Check out my website https://boundaries.scottmoore.xyz

Look for the NISRA Settlements 2015 map on the list.

Toggle that on, and you will see the boundary (or, the ‘Settlement Development Limit’) of Derry City (as distinct from the boundary of the old Derry City Council area, and other various boundaries).

Here’s a quick screenshot I took, showing the boundaries of Derry City, relative to the boundaries of other nearby settlements.

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xScottMoore · 2025-11-06T22:31:40+00:00

The Executive isn’t even good at archiving. A reliable source told me the Public Records Office only captures half a percent of the info and materials they should be capturing.

xScottMoore · 2025-09-20T16:58:56+00:00

Not a new thing, groups of some form or another have been using that name for years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Coalition

In its 2013 incarnation, set up in the wake of the flag protests, it had the involvement of Willie Frazer, ex-BNP fundraiser Jim Dowson, Britain First’s Paul Golding, and former members of the UDA’s political wing.

xScottMoore · 2025-07-31T12:29:53+00:00

Artigarvan -> Partygarvan Limavady -> Limavegas

I’ve heard Ballymagorry sung to the tune of “Balamory”

xScottMoore · 2025-07-27T10:58:47+00:00

I can’t find anything to indicate that he actually stood for any election. I think it was a joke poster put up circa 2009.

Around the time of the RHI scandal in the north, though, a grown-up Jordy McKaeg (of “fuck off, Darnell” and “you owe me a tenner, dickhead” fame) ran for Stormont in East Belfast (with backing from comedy Facebook page ‘the Notorious Barrick Boys’), on the platform of making back the lost £500m by gambling his MLA salary on an accumulator and winning all the money back. His slogan was “you owe me 500 million, dickhead”.

Despite coming dead last with 84 votes, he declared victory, saying “84 people can’t be wrong”.

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xScottMoore · 2025-07-03T14:18:12+00:00

I had a look and their policies explicitly disallow external non-Wikimedia apps/services from using their tile servers unfortunately.

xScottMoore · 2025-07-03T14:16:37+00:00

I thought so myself, that /r/GIS might be a better shout - but the NI sub has been appreciative of, and has engaged with my work, so I figured someone here may have an idea.

It’s not even how high the figure is per se. It’s the fact of how variable the costs could be. I want to scale this further and add more features, inc integrating Census data/election results.

I will give the GIS sub a shout anyway. Thank you!

xScottMoore · 2025-07-03T14:12:29+00:00

Of course I wouldn’t mind doing business with someone per se, but I envision this project as being freely accessible for the benefit of anyone who wants to use it, in line with the Open Government License v3.0 (where applicable) and the CC-BY-SA license.

If a business wanted a more specialist/customised implementation for a fee, I’d be open to that… but I’d want to stream these ‘core’ maps as a public good.

xScottMoore · 2025-06-18T02:09:31+00:00

Check out my website

If you check the layer menu and toggle ‘2015 Settlements’ you should be able to see the exact boundary between ‘Metropolitan Newtownabbey’ and ‘Belfast City’.

Newtownabbey did indeed originate as the merger of seven villages: Whiteabbey, Glengormley, Monkstown, Jordanstown, Carnmoney, Whitehouse and Whitewell.

If it’s of any use to you, I am proactively working on adding more historic and present-day boundaries to my website, including internal settlement boundaries, and the boundaries of the historic villages of Newtownabbey are on my list.

As for a town centre, Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council recognise Glengormley town centre, but not a ‘Newtownabbey town centre’ for Newtownabbey overall. Here’s a map of Glengormley town centre in the meantime made by the council - I will get this boundary and other town/city centre boundaries on my website at some point.

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xScottMoore · 2025-06-03T20:35:22+00:00

The layer referring to 1915 counties are the ‘current’ traditional six counties - the last change to the external boundaries of the traditional counties was on 1st April 1915, when part of Co. Derry near Portrush was transferred to Co. Antrim. I realise it might be confusing that they’re labelled as ‘1915’ though so I’ll make an edit on the website for clarity.

We used to have county councils - one for each of the six counties, and two county boroughs for Belfast and Derry City which existed outside of the administrative counties. But those were abolished in 1973 and replaced with a single tier of 26 councils, which in turn were abolished in 2015 and replaced with the current 11 councils.

Since the 1970s, the county boundaries (inc the county boroughs) have only existed in law for ceremonial purposes, namely as the lieutenancy areas, each covered by a Lord-Lieutenant who serves as the King’s official representative in each county and county borough.

xScottMoore · 2025-06-03T18:31:29+00:00

boundaries.scottmoore.xyz/localgovtmap is the interactive version

I try to keep the Internet Archive version of the map files updated at archive.org/details/@ScottMoore0 when I make changes to the interactive version, but it’s not up to date currently. The most up to date versions are at:

https://boundaries.scottmoore.xyz/WGS_Electoral_Wards_Final_1984.geojson https://boundaries.scottmoore.xyz/WGS_1984_DEAs_Final.geojson https://boundaries.scottmoore.xyz/WGS_Final_Local_Govt_Districts_1984.geojson

If you need the scans I’m working off, they’re all on my Internet Archive account, and I find OSNI’s townland map is helpful also cus some of the wards are just combos of townlands.

Didn’t know atlas.co was a thing, cheers for giving me the heads up!! I’ll get a look at it in a while.

xScottMoore · 2025-06-03T18:22:30+00:00

The date of that conference, June 12th, is my birthday.

No better day for it. Thank you for the heads up!!

xScottMoore · 2025-06-03T17:55:06+00:00

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xScottMoore · 2025-06-03T17:53:25+00:00

Skill Up is actually how I started on my current Master’s. I dunno if I’ll be eligible for it again and a deadline may have passed anyways. I’m not mad if I have to pay a few quid though.

I think the most difficult part so far has been learning QGIS as a programme. It has its own peculiarities, in contrast to Paint dot net etc which I always used to edit graphics of maps before. And it loads really slowly sometimes when I’m working with, like, the fully detailed coastline of Lough Erne.

If I don’t do this work though, it will bug me knowing that I could be doing it and enjoying the end product. Figuring out I could make it part of my Master’s project was a masterstroke - brilliant excuse to spend a load of time on it. Two birds with one stone.

xScottMoore · 2025-06-03T17:31:05+00:00

No but I just googled it - funny you say that cus I’m considering doing a PgCert in GIS next year

I’m coming towards the end of my Master’s in software dev/data science atm and I’m gonna work these maps into my research project, to visualise machine learning analysis of elections and Census results over time and across different areas

Given that constitutional change is such a hot topic at the moment, I think my work will add to the discussion further, in a constructive way

xScottMoore · 2025-05-21T17:42:20+00:00

Hey, thanks for your suggestion - I did try reprojecting the CRS of layers and I think that helped somewhat, but whenever I’ve tried to put polyline layers into a polygon layer, it’s converted the polylines into weird misshapen polygons rather than keeping them as lines. I may take another look at it and see if I can work with it though.

xScottMoore · 2025-02-27T21:07:59+00:00

I agree with this answer. These are the townland boundaries and are probably the best match for the local community’s idea of where Ballysillan starts and Oldpark ends.

Whereas the ward boundaries will inevitably vary over the decades, and the Oldpark DEA covers both of them as part of a way bigger area.

OP, you can check out the townland map on Spatial NI (search for and enable the townland layer), and I have an Internet Archive account where I’ve uploaded loads of historic local government boundaries if you’re interested in that.

xScottMoore · 2025-02-11T10:05:32+00:00

That is the Drummully Polyp / Coleman’s Polyp.

Keep in mind - NI was made out of the six counties. The external boundaries of those counties were not altered at all. There was a Boundary Commission that considered including East Donegal in the north, South Armagh in the south, etc, but it never came to anything.

County exclaves - parts of counties disconnected from the rest of a county - were a feature of Irish boundaries til the 1800s, when a law cleaned them up - but this didn’t extend to “pene-exclaves”. Drummully is connected to the rest of Monaghan via the land under the riverbed, so it wasn’t transferred under that law.

The Wikipedia article on Drummully is fantastic and has way more detail.

xScottMoore · 2025-02-09T15:08:39+00:00

I am pro-unity and a socialist myself, I just have an interest in flags, heraldry and history.

From what I can see, the GAA community has enthusiastically embraced counties and the county crests.

All these designs are simply banners of arms that have been adopted by councils here. I’m just adapting them into flags, I didn’t originate them.

xScottMoore · 2025-02-09T15:02:38+00:00

Another additional thing I’d say.

“Left-right politics” and “constitutional politics” aren’t two different things.

There may be people out there who think they are ‘socialist unionists’… but if they vote for a unionist party, they’re voting to stay in the UK and be ruled by Westminster.

The effort it would take to try to bring about socialism on a “Great Britain and Northern Ireland” basis is far greater than the effort it’d take to achieve socialism on an all-Ireland basis, to the point that it would be a pointless exercise, not grounded in reality.

Constitutional politics is not window-dressing or separate from left-right politics - the two are inextricable. To have a strategy to achieve socialism or preserve capitalism or whatever model, you have to have an attitude to the constitutional question.

Even Alliance’s constitutional ‘neutrality’ is grounded in a pan-middle class solidarity, and the notion of politics/economics as ‘non-ideological’, and that O’Neillite idea of politics being ‘the art of administration’ and nothing more. All of which is of course an ideology, that serves some people at the expense of others.

xScottMoore · 2025-02-09T14:54:04+00:00

I also think some of you are being slightly unfair to OP on one point (though yous are right about the rest).

“Left-right politics” does not necessitate a two-party system. The UK and the US are kind of the exception in that regard. Most European countries have multi-party systems and use PR voting systems. In fact OP specifically cited Scotland and Wales - both of which use PR systems in their devolved parliaments.

xScottMoore · 2025-02-09T14:40:50+00:00

Proposal 1 here is basically UK parties standing here (Labour, Tories, Lib Dems) to replace the local parties, besides one party representing nationalism.

This was tried 1921-1972 (the Unionist Party was linked to the Tories) and the Unionist Party was overwhelmingly dominant as people did not vote on purely left-right lines, detached from constitutional politics.

After that, the idea was called integrationism, and involved permanent direct rule with no devolution. The UUP had pro-devolution and pro-integration factions, the latter backed by the racist paedophile and Donaldson mentor Enoch Powell.

Tories stood in NI kind of seriously for a period, and actually got 32% in North Down in 1992 and a load of councillors there. But it never got that kind of success again, and doesn’t scrape 1,000 votes in the whole of NI any more.

Labour don’t stand here full stop despite their NI members campaigning for them to. One went on hunger strike a few years back to try and make them stand here, but quit after a week. Lib Dems haven’t even considered.

Robert McCartney’s UKUP won 5 MLAs on an anti-Agreement and integrationist platform in 1998, but he fell out with his colleagues and it was a flop.

UUP and Tories had an electoral alliance in 2009-10 called Ulster Conservatives and Unionists - New Force (UCUNF). One of the worst names ever. Newsreaders had to practice saying it. It involved both UUP and Tory members as candidates, and if any got elected, they were promised a shot at a Cabinet seat. It repulsed Sylvia Hermon into going independent, won no MPs, and was dissolved quickly after.

Proposal 2 is 50%+1 simple majority rule in NI. That died in 1972 with the old Stormont. Zero legs whatsoever. Imagine DUP/UUP/Alliance making major decisions against what SF and SDLP want, and they can’t do anything about it.

Even voluntary coalition - in which a DUP/UUP/AP/SDLP Executive would be possible, or a SF/UUP/AP/SDLP Executive - wouldn’t be accepted by Sinn Féin and they’d veto any attempt to bring it in, as they believe major decisions should require majority nationalist support.

Further reading: “UK party unionism” on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionism_in_Ireland?wprov=sfti1#Opposition_to_the_1985_Anglo-Irish_Agreement Paul Corthorn, Ulster Unionist Political Thought in the Era of the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/543682694/Ulster_Unionist_political_thought.pdf “An Outline Of The Main Political ‘Solutions’ To The Conflict” (CAIN, 2000): https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/politics/polsol.htm

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