What’s Missing from Human History? / / No Comments The Globe of History is a new interactive map that recounts 6,000 years of human events. In fact, not only does it recount history – it reinterprets it as well.For example, it reveals that what most historians have considered one of the most revolutionary and significant periods in human history was, in fact, a new dark age. That’s right – according to The Globe of History, only one significant Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: from, History, Human, missing, What's
Watch the USA Grow, State by State / / No Comments The Library of Congress has launched a new animated map, The United States at a Glance, that lets you literally watch the nation growAt its core, the map is a powerful educational resource, allowing you to click on any point to access the foundational legal documents that established, admitted, or incorporated that state or territory. Much of the legal content is drawn from the Library’s massive Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Grow, State, Watch
Links For You (10/25/25) / / No Comments Greetings, programs, and welcome to another links post. The weather is finally beginning to turn here which doesn’t necessarily mean cold weather, but days in the low 80s, mid 70s, which is an absolute relief from summer. Just in time for Halloween as well. Last year we unfortunately got rained out – this year it looks to be clear, and I can’t wait to walk with my kids (and yes, I’ll be in full costume myself). Here are some links for your reading enjoyment. Stay safe out there. On DevRel and the Unnatural Act Up first is a stellar post by Leon Adato, HOW TO DEVREL: The Most Un-Natural Act. In his post, he describes how he not only got people to stop by his company booth... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 10/25/25, links
The Destruction of American Democracy / / No Comments Thanks to Soar you can watch the destruction of American democracy in near real-time. The animated GIF above shows satellite imagery from before and after Trump’s illegal demolition of the East Wing of the White House. The republic that built a White House of reason and restraint is now being demolished by its would-be king. Only one man could believe that the neoclassical and Palladian Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: American, Democracy, Destruction
Adding Generative Summaries with Chrome AI / / No Comments Earlier this year (sigh, when I had a job), I built a demo using Chrome’s built-in AI support to do something I thought was really interesting – progressively enhance product reviews to make it easier to see which were trending negative versus positive. It was a great example (imo!) of how AI support could enhance the experience in supported browsers without impacting the experience for others. That demo was on my mind this week, and it occurred to me that it would also be a great place to add summarization. The Summarizer API is now fully released, for Chrome that is, and does not need a flag enabled or anything like that. I’ve blogged about this API a few times already, most... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Adding, Chrome, Generative, Summaries
County Stripes / / No Comments County Stripes I was reading the comments on a time-lapse map of power outages in the US posted on Reddit yesterday. Many of the comments focused on the sizes of U.S. counties, particularly noting how counties appear to get noticeably larger as you travel westward across the country.I therefore decided to take a closer look at the size of U.S. counties across the country, carrying out some Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: County, Stripes
No Kings, No Tyrants & No Dictators / / No Comments The No Kings interactive map is not particularly interesting in itself – except as a visualization of the huge geographic sweep of anti-Trump sentiment in the United States. The map is ostensibly just a simple interactive map that shows you the locations of today’s protests against the escalating authoritarianism of the Donald Trump administration in the United States.As well as showing the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Dictators, Kings, Tyrants
Links For You (10/12/25) / / No Comments I blinked and somehow missed posting this a week or so ago. Time is, to quote the good Doctor, a bit wibbly wobbly. I’m currently watching a recording of the Saints/Patriots game and hoping we can follow last week’s win with another, but I’m not sure. Of course, the game’s been done for hours now but we’ve managed to miss the news so… we can still hope. Speaking of hope, as a reminder, I’m still looking for my next role, and if you know of a good developer evangelist/advocate position, please reach out! Alright, time for some links. When JSON Isn’t… First up is a great look at how JSON may not be as universally parsed/transferable/etc as you... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 10/12/25, links