Mapping the Cultural Impact of Gentrification / / No Comments The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has released an interactive map which visualizes the gentrification of American cities over the last 50 years. Cities are constantly evolving. But behind many urban developments lies a deeper story of community transformation – one that often comes with a negative cost for the original residents. The Displaced by Design interactive map is a Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Cultural, Gentrification, Impact, Mapping
Links For You (6/22/25) / / No Comments Greetings, programs. This has been a quite excellent weekend so far, and today will be awesome for one reason alone – there’s not one dang thing on our calendar. A day with nothing to do is a glorious day indeed. I spent this morning finishing prestige 10 in COD and catching up on my comics ("One World Under Doom" is incredible). Now let’s get to the links… What exactly do I do? I’ve had to explain developer advocacy and evangelism for years now, but I absolutely love this explanation by Ashley Willis, "What Is Developer Advocacy (2025 Edition)". In it, she goes into great detail about the job myself, and many of my friends, love, and talks about... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 6/22/25, links
Paving Paradise for the Ultra Rich / / No Comments Say Goodbye to Your Outdoor LifeThe Wilderness Society has identified over 250 million acres of public land that Republicans are preparing to sell under new legislation. If the SENR Bill passes, then you can expect to spend a lot more time indoors.Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act has already been dubbed a “Reverse Robin Hood Bill.” The legislation contains a range of measures explicitly Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Paradise, Paving, Rich, Ultra
Upcoming Webinars / / No Comments Good morning, programs. I wanted to share some news about two upcoming webinars. The first is my next Code Break show, "Building Desktop Apps with Python and Flet – Part Deux", happening next Tuesday, June 24th, at 12PM CST. As you can tell by the title, I’ll be continuing my look at the awesome Flet project and seeing if I can finish the app I started last time. If you don’t remember, it’s quite deadly… (And be sure to check out the last session for the first part!) Next, on July 23rd, 11AM CST, I’m hosting a free webinar where I’ll live code building a BoxLang application. My plan is to see how far I can get in an hour (which means I need... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Upcoming, Webinars
Sorting Out Your Monarchs with BoxLang / / No Comments I know what you’re thinking right now – a monarch problem? How did Raymond know I had a monarch problem? What can I say, with great age comes great wisdom, or, more likely, random code challenges. I’ve mentioned "rendezvous with cassidoo" before as one of the newsletters I subscribe to. Authored by the very interesting Cassidy Williams, this short and sweet newsletter always has interesting content and always ends with a basic code challenge, what she calls her ‘interview question of the week’. This weeks question was pretty fun: Given an array of strings representing the names of monarchs and their ordinal numbers, write a function that returns the list... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: BoxLang, Monarchs, Sorting
When Ocean Currents Collapse / / No Comments AMOC Collapse VisualizationA new study suggests that global warming could paradoxically plunge Europe into dramatic cooling, leading to severe winter cold spells, more intense storms, and reduced rainfall. Average winter temperatures could plunge, sea ice could spread as far south as the British Isles, and nearly half the year could see temperatures below freezing.The Atlantic Meridional Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Collapse, Currents, Ocean
Prosecuting Crimes Against Humanity / / No Comments The Universal Jurisdiction Interactive Map (UJIM), developed by TRIAL International, is a comprehensive and accessible digital tool designed to track and display criminal cases related to serious international crimes such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, enforced disappearances, and the crime of aggression.Universal Jurisdiction is a legal principle that allows states Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Against, Crimes, Humanity, Prosecuting
My ColdFusion 2025 Hackathon Submission – QuickTracker / / No Comments Earlier this month, the ColdFusion team announced a hackathon that started today, and ends Monday night. Full disclosure, when I saw the announcement, I thought that the date range is when things had to be turned in. I spent a few hours on what I’m going to share below, but when I found out that the intent was to start today, I wrapped up and stopped. My submission only took a few hours, and outside of a quick readme update today, I feel fine with my submission. And heck, it was fun to build, so I don’t really care if I win (ok, that’s a bit of a lie). With that out of the way, let me share what I created, QuickTracker.cfm. QuickTracker.cfm is based on a tool first built by... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 2025, ColdFusion, Hackathon, QuickTracker, Submission