A Map of the World That Is Gone / / No Comments When Elan Ullendorff moved to South Philadelphia this summer he realized that he knew very little about the recent history of his new neighborhood. So he decided to change that. The result is Love Letters to Places I’ll Never Meet, an interactive map which summons up the recent past of South Philadelphia by creating an interactive map of some now shuttered stores. To create his love letter to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: gone, World
Mapping the Oct 7 Hamas Attacks / / No Comments Over the last three weeks news organizations around the world have produced many maps in their efforts to help explain the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. Many of these have been curated in the Data Vis Dispatch. Unfortunately the paywalls of many of the major news websites make a lot of these maps inaccessible to many.The current attacks on the Palestinian people by Israel are in response to the events Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: attacks, Hamas, Mapping
Building a Generic RSS Parser Service with Cloudflare Workers / / No Comments About once every three months I’ll write a quick JavaScript demo and attempt to fetch someone’s RSS feed… and then remember that the vast majority of RSS feeds don’t specify a CORS header to allow remote scripts to load them. I know this – and yet I still tend to forget. I thought it would be kind of fun to build a serverless API via Cloudflare Workers to handle loading, parsing, and returning a RSS feed with CORS allowed. I figured this would be pretty easy, but I ran into a snag right away. Workers and NPM Modules # Cloudflare Workers is Node.js compatible… with some issues. Cloudflare has a documentation page on it addressing what you may run into, and for... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: building, Cloudflare, Generic, Parser, service, workers
Why the Spanish Like Vertical Living / / No Comments Spaniards like living in apartments. In fact Spain has one of the highest percentages of apartment dwellers in the world. Only in South Korea do more people live in collective dwellings. There are historical reasons why so many Spaniards live in apartment buildings. You can learn more about the historical causes of Spain’s vertical living in El Diario’s story map Spain lives in flats: why we Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: like, Living, Spanish, Vertical
How to Get the Current Branch Name with git / / No Comments Most developers spoil themselves with fun command line utilities to make their work easier and more efficient. One such command line helper allows developers to always show the git branch in the command line. How can you get the current branch? With this handy snippet: git branch --show-current It’s great to keep this snippet around for any automation you may create moving forward! The post How to Get the Current Branch Name with git appeared first on David Walsh Blog. David Walsh Blog… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Branch, Current, name
Using Cloudflare’s AI Workers to Add Translations to PDFs / / No Comments Late last month, Cloudflare announced new AI features in their (already quite stellar)Workers platform. I’ve been a big fan of their serverless feature (see my earlier posts) so I was quite excited to give this a try myself. Before I begin, I’ll repeat what the Cloudflare folks said in their announcement: "Usage is not currently recommended for production apps". So with that in mind, remember that what I’m sharing today may change in the future. The Demo # Before I get into the code, let me share what I’ve built. Now, at the time I wrote this, Cloudflare’s AI stuff was still in beta and there is no cost yet for using the features. This is, obviously, going... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Cloudflare's, PDFs, Translations, using, workers
3D Middle-earth / / No Comments You can now explore the fantasy world of J.R.R Tolkein on a three dimensional globe. The Middle-earth 3D Map is a wonderful interactive map of the lands of the Shire, Mordor, Rohan and Gondor. A map that allows you to soar over the Misty Mountains, gaze upon the White City of Minas Tirith, and wander through the ancient forests of Lothlórien in a way that has never been possible before.Unlike Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Middleearth
The World Map of Podcasts / / No Comments MapsFM is an interactive map which can help you find and listen to podcasts produced around the world. Listening to location based podcasts could be a great way to learn more about a planned travel destination or even to learn more about your local neighborhood or town. Now you can easily find and listen to location based podcasts by using the MapsFM map of the podcast world.Simply share your Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Podcasts, World