New from me! Has Google changed the name of Lake Ontario on your website? Here's how you can fix it for good! wilkinson.graphics/blog/2026-09...
Lake America: The Case for Self-Hosting Your Maps
Its easier than ever, I promise!
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Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics
Designer who knows some things about web archives, OpenStreetMap enthusiast, occasional maker of music. Prev @webrecorder.net Currently @EQTY Lab
Protomaps is such cool software, even the debug views look nice.
“In Yangzhou’s Geyuan 个园, a lovely traditional courtyard garden of rock and bamboo, you need to watch a video advertisement and scan your face to get toilet paper. Once only: the dispenser remembers who you are and won’t give you seconds”
Burrito Justice@burritojustice.bsky.social · 5d ago“Aside from the ubiquitous cameras, it is not possible to move around a city on any form of transport or pay for anything without the apps, and they always know who and where you are”
Convert your WACZ web archives into Markdown files! Makes use of @stephango.com’s excellent defuddle library. inkdroid.org/2026/08/25/w...
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Migration tools like this are incredibly good, migration tools to get off of Substack are even better
Offprint@offprint.app · last wk.Death to Substack? Yes, its time. No more excuses 🫵🏽 We've been working on migration tools for the last couple months. Promising a few of you it's coming "any day now". Today is that day 🥳🥂 Export your content from Substack, Ghost, Pika or Buttondown and automatically import it into Offprint.
MY posts are messages on the cheap!
James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w agoMy posts are messages from the deep.
This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
ordinaryabundance.com
I love buying music. Spotify is 14 bucks a month, I just spent $20, all of which went to the artists and now I GET TO KEEP IT FOREVER! Next month I probably won't buy any new music (we'll see) and I'll still have the things I bought because they're mine! What a concept.
There are few YouTube creators that bring me joy quite like Bobby Fingers. Truly unique every time. youtu.be/vGt7-WnWdhE?...
Johnny Depp's Bed
YouTube video by Bobby Fingers
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Today's side project, rendering the BigBrain dataset in Blender!
Happening this Thursday! luma.com/bz9as8ul?tk=...
Side Project Social · Luma
Side Project Socials happen bi-weekly on Thursday nights and are a chance to hang out with others while working on your side project, and chat with others…
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Henry Wilkinson@wilkinson.graphics · 12mo agoI rarely promote this event, it's pretty low key... but if you're in Toronto, every other Thursday in the evening I run an event at @1rg.space where we work on our side projects. If you have a side project and want to show it to some people, you should come! luma.com/75olmqob
Turns out housing policy actually does have an effect on what gets built!
Damien Moule@damienmoule.bsky.social · last mo.To go along with multiplex permissions, Development Charge waivers, which previously applied to the 2nd/3rd/4th unit on a lot, were extended up to 6 units in July 2025. Multiplexes were one the few housing types to see more building permits issued in 2025/2026. 3/
Perhaps the best argument I've seen against the "death of FOSS due to AI" yet. > If you refrain from participating from the software of the commons, the only thing you're doing is surrendering more of our collective agency to abusive centralised powers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZw... Good talk!
Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026
YouTube video by Software Should Work
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when i’m in too deep into a new side project
Jeff Weiss@passionweiss.bsky.social · 2mo agoHerbie Hancock literally in the studio
@bmann.ca You're usually faster than I am with these things, but meshllm.cloud is on the front page of HN right now and looks potentially cool for the Z space cluster?
Mesh LLM
Mesh serves large local models across multiple machines through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
meshllm.cloud
Set up the beginnings of a PBF → ID tagging schema → pmtiles → MapLibre GL style data pipeline
Finally our minutes are 60 seconds again!
Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 2mo agosome amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”
Four thermal prints re-scanned, then merged with original photos to add colour
At some point I gave my girlfriend my "intro to git" talk so we could make a website together, she's now giving the same presentation to a coworker in the other room!
The amount of times that Dropbox Fax has saved my ass is now 2. Incredible free service that hasn’t been enshitified.