Still one of the best images to illustrate what’s wrong with the Mercator projection. Its Web Marcator sibling is de facto the standard used by Google, Apple and others for a 2D maps on the web.
Mike Acler
@acler.bsky.social
🤘 20+ years building digital products · designer maptiler.com · maps & tooling · building http://audioguidekit.org & http://polygrid.dev · more: http://acler.cz
I started to use Cloudflare for my personal projects and it's crazy what you can get for free. I use: – pages hosting + CDN – data storage w/ Workers KV – R2 file storage w/ $0 egress – tunnel my localhost to a public URL – turnstile for spam & bots – 0trust for access mgmt
Pushed a small update to the AudioGuideKit.org website: one click prompt copy for folks working with AI agents.
Getting map data into layered vectors should be easier. Most map design workflows still start with a mess: find the data, export it, clean it up, split layers, fix labels, then rebuild everything in Illustrator or Figma. So I made Map2SVG 👇
Why are Apple icons becoming more unified and standardised? Having so wide portfolio with different platforms is always a hard balancing act between consistency and ways for expressing personality... weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/f...
Free The Icons
Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons
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Is there any secret crash your icon contest these days? I don't get it 🫠
Claude Design 👀 ...but hey, painter's palette is the biggest cliché since '85 when M$ Paintbrush was released 😁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LB...
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs
YouTube video by Claude
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Hey, my fellow music nerds 🎸🤘🎧 If you use @raycast.com, you should know I built an extension that helps you to stay on top of the latest music news. 👉 www.raycast.com/acler/music-...
📸 Artemis II Lunar Flyby from April 6, 2026 — www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...
Artemis II Lunar Flyby - NASA
The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions no human has ever seen before—including a rare in-space solar eclipse. Rele...
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🚀 Launching a new agent skill today. Everyone’s generating full websites with AI. UI is easy now. Deciding what belongs on the screen isn’t. If the content is wrong, the whole thing is wrong.
GitHub - agilek/wireframer-skill: Agent skill for generating low-fidelity, hand-drawn web wireframes. Balsamiq-style SPAs using wired-elements web components and react-doodle-icons. Supports React, ...
Agent skill for generating low-fidelity, hand-drawn web wireframes. Balsamiq-style SPAs using wired-elements web components and react-doodle-icons. Supports React, Vue, Svelte, and vanilla HTML...
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What if AI didn’t just answer… but showed you? Claude now creates "mini apps" inside responses. That’s a different kind of learning! Perfect if you think visually like I do.
Btw did you know about this one? Use it to ask questions in one session without stopping currently running task.
New 🗣️ /voice feature in CC works like a charm. This easily replaces external apps like superwhisper or whisprflow for me. But how many tokens does this actually consume? Anyone knows?