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
Two bots walk into a bar… / / No Comments My regular readers know I like to have fun with my demos. I’ll illustrate some API, framework, technique, with perhaps a somewhat silly example as a way of introducing you to something I’ve learned recently that I thought was cool. My hope is that you see me demonstrating something useful in (perhaps) an less than useful demo that helps you apply it to a real world need. Today’s post is not that. Rather, this is a completely silly, useless example and if you have any common sense, you’ll stop reading now. Still here? Good. Many, many years ago a man named Joseph Weizenbaum designed a natural language conversation program named ELIZA. It was not AI, but rather a program... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: bar..., bots, into, Walk
Mapping 600 Million Years on Earth / / No Comments Esri’s Dance of the Continents allows you to travel 600 million years back in time to view the Earth during the Cambrian period – when complex multicellular life first began to flourish. From there, you can scroll forward to watch the slow, rhythmic movement of tectonic plates as they shift to form the world we know today.As you move through the timeline, you’ll see the supercontinent Pangaea Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Earth, Mapping, Million, Years