Links For You (4/5/26) / / No Comments Happy "Three Days Before My Birthday Day"! Oh – yeah, and happy Easter too, but I’m personally a bit more excited about turning 53 as I’ve decided that’s when I’m going to grow up and act like a mature adult. Probably. Maybe. We’ll see. Now, if you, my lovely and incredibly intelligent reader, are feeling generous and you’ve gotten some good knowledge (or entertainment) from this blog, I’ll use today’s Links For You post to remind you of my Amazon Wishlist. Or even cheaper, leave me a comment below saying HBD – that’s just as good. 😉 Everything old is new again… First up is a blog post on an old topic but one... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 4/5/26, links
ASCII Mapping of Live Data / / No Comments There’s something oddly satisfying about seeing the world reduced to text. The new ASCII OSM Viewer leans fully into that aesthetic, turning modern web mapping into something that looks like it belongs on a terminal from the 1980s.Built by Lionel Lim, this browser-based experiment takes data from OpenStreetMap and renders it entirely using ASCII characters. The result is a playful but Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: ASCII, data, live, Mapping
You’ve gained a new achievement / / No Comments For the past month or so I’ve been obsessed with a book series that’s apparently been popular and I just didn’t realize – Dungeon Crawler Carl. Without giving too much away, it’s basically about a person, and his glorious cat, who get caught up in a real world RPG. I’m currently on book 3 (of 8) and am enjoying every page of it. It’s incredibly funny and cool at the same time. If you haven’t checked it out yet, I highly recommend picking up the first book and giving it a shot. I don’t think you’ll regret it. As I mentioned, the book series involves a man (and his cat, the cat is crucial) experiencing a real-world RPG and like a RPG,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: achievement, gained, You've
Sentient Street View / / No Comments Sentient Street ViewSince Google first launched Street View in 2007, its mission has been simple: to provide a window into every corner of the globe – from the peaks of Mont Blanc to the depths of the Great Barrier Reef.Throughout that journey, Pegman has been your faithful, silent guide – a cursor with a purpose, but no voice of his own.But looking toward the future of mapping, Google began to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Sentient, Street, View
The IRL Streaming Map / / No Comments lucent.earth is a ‘real-time visualization of global live streams and radio stations’. Which makes it sound a bit more exciting than it really is. Mapping live video streams is hardly an original concept. However, now we’ve entered the ‘influencer age’ – defined by 24-hour real-time oversharing – perhaps the time for lucent.earth has finally come. lucent.earth is essentially a 3D globe Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Streaming
Checking if a Movie has a Post or Mid Credit Scene / / No Comments Tell me if you done this before – you’re sitting in a movie theater after it’s ended and want to know if you should stay for a mid, or post-credit scene (also called a stinger). You open your phone, google, and end up a web page that has five gigs of ads or so and then thirty to forty paragraphs of text talking about the movie before they finally get around to actually answering the question. Yeah, I hate that too. I always tell myself, next time I’ll google ahead of time so I’ll know before going in, but I never do. If this bugs you, I built a web app that literally only tells you if the movie has these stingers – and nothing more. No context, no description... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Checking, credit', Movie, Post, Scene
Links For You (3/22/26) / / No Comments I just shared this on my socials, but this weekend is one of those rare ones where I got not one, but two days of decent sleep, and honestly my body doesn’t even know what to think about it. "Rested" is some foreign concept that is both confusing and incredibly appreciated by my body. I’d love to say I’m going to take this well rested state and get loads of things done, but outside of this post and laundry, I don’t plan on accomplishing anything else of note. Groovy Pretty Maths It was in college when I discovered "good at math" in high school means absolutely nothing when you start going beyond basic calculus, so with that in mind, I don’t understand... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 3/22/26, links
Mini Rennes 3D / / No Comments In 2019, Mini Tokyo 3D revolutionized the world of real-time transit mapping. By simulating Tokyo’s massive public transit system using stylized, 3D colored blocks, it allowed users to watch the city pulse in real-time.Taking clear inspiration from that aesthetic – particularly evident in its sleek ‘dark mode’ – the Rennes Transit Map brings this immersive experience to France Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: mini, Rennes