Some More Maps of Sounds

Yesterday Hacker News featured a thread on Sounds of the Forest, an interactive map of sound recordings made in forests around the world. Also linked in the Hacker News thread was the wonderful Radio Aporee, which, like Sounds of the Forest, has featured on Maps Mania before. Also mentioned in the thread were two interactive sound maps which I haven’t seen (or heard) before.Audiomapa Maps Mania… more →
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Awesome Algolia Updates (and some fixes here…)

I’ve been a huge fan, and user, of Algolia for a while now. I first wrote about it back in 2020 when I described how I added Algolia search to Eleventy. Later on, I described how one might migrate to Algolia from Lunr. All in all, I’ve been very happy with Algolia and my usage on this blog. Honestly, I feel like I’m the only one who makes use of my search page but I do so nearly daily so it’s critical to me. (And recently, a friend reached out specifically about my search and I’ll discuss that below.) The only real issue I ran into when using Algolia here was the size of my content. Algolia’s free tier maxed out at ten thousand records. That’s very generous... more →
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