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I built a procedural medieval island map generator using Wave Function Collapse on hex grids. 4,100 cells, 900 possible states per cell, 60fps on mobile. Wrote up the whole process with lessons learned. Links below 👇 #threejs #webgpu
Hi internet friends! What do folks use for terminal access (CLI coding agent access really) on their phones? Blink? Echo? What do you like or not like about them?
Color map showing population density from Administrativ-Statistischer Atlas vom Preussischen Staate. It is the first known color choropleth.
YES! After a few hours searching, I finally dug up a high-quality scan of the first (known) color choropleth. From haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/viewer/fulls...
Thanks to @datavisfriendly.bsky.social & @infowetrust.com who helped with the search.
#cartography #maps #dataviz
Mamdani's team should be saying "we've had the most effective snow cleanup ever, and it's thanks to the high awareness about shoveling jobs due to the right-wing pretending not to understand how hiring for city jobs works." @mayor.nyc.gov be sure to credit their lies for helping get the word out.
✨ I just published a new blog post about a nifty lil’ animation technique: sprites!
Sprites are used all the time in video games, but they’re less common on the web. We do have the tools to manage it in CSS, but there’s a gotcha.
In this post, I share some of the cool use cases I’ve found:
Follow my father’s footsteps and make wood cabinets on boats. Hoping that robot dexterity doesn’t catch up as quickly.
What do LLMs see?
I wrote a lil' tool that extracts the attention matrices out of open models and creates this typing visual, with each token's opacity changing according to its average attention score as the prompt progresses. Dimmer words are considered less important to the model.
Nothing about connecting computers to one another made wikipedia inevitable.
Thanks for your kind words! Also happy to share more about the specifics of the migration if it would be helpful.
It navigated a few nasty transitions, eg upgrading React versions, leveraging Astro’s island architecture, etc. It sometimes need help with “what” to do and high level direction. But the nitty gritty of translating between versions and frameworks it worked well
I recently migrated r2d3.us to Astro from a 2015 Flask app. It wasn’t quite “set it overnight and it was done”. In my experience agents would often do 80% of the job, then decide the rest “is out of scope for now”. You have to give it very clear verification criteria. Ultimately though it worked.
Before: Here’s data.
After: Here’s what the data means.
“Data visualization best practices haven’t changed. But now anyone can apply them.”
data.blog/2026/02/10/f...
Grateful blink.sh + TailScale + my Mac Mini (not pictured) set up. I’m cooking. My agents are cooking.
New work! Been working on this with @wattenberger.com and others since Sept! www.augmentcode.com/product/intent
It has all the buzz words!
- Spec-driven development!
- Multi-Agent Orchestration!
More seriously though. Agent-based coding is sorely missing a coordination UI. Would love feedback!
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
- George Orwell, 1984
Luigi Perozzo's stereogram is coming to America. Subscribe to Chartography.net to see it first.
I’ve long marveled at this graphic, without really understanding how it works or why it came to be. Aesthetic appeal held my admiration—it’s like something from a steampunk future that never was. www.chartography.net/p/bellissimi...
Long long overdue. Finally migrated r2d3.us off Heroku (and an out dated Flask app) to CloudFlare Pages + Astrojs. Finally checking off a New Year’s resolutions from … 4 years ago? 🫠
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
Etsy shop selling a framed 3D Map of Soho in 1854 by John Snow showing cholera fatalities
Anyway, here's my Etsy shop, for all your cholera-at-Christmas needs
www.etsy.com/shop/3DArtMaps
12 hours of Hurricane #Melissa, one frame every minute. 🛰️🗺️
Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
What if you split up the requirements? Reactivity can be done through something like preact signals. And for not steamrolling the DOM… D3 perhaps?
Leadership Hack #7: Build a list of your favorite humans. Check in with them frequently.
Can confirm. Playwright MCP works great, especially with its ability to read the browser console. I use Augment Code (I work there) and the agent just starts adding console logs and then can see what’s happening by itself.
Perozzo's stereogram over the years:
1880 Annali di Statistica (Perozzo)
1885 Statistical Society Jubilee (Levasseur)
1888 Teoria generale della statistica (Gabaglio)
1939 Graphic Presentation (Brinton)
Wonderful to receive this utterly beautiful 3D printed diorama of "Snow's map of cholera" by @alexselbyb.bsky.social. Exceptional attention to detail. Simply stunning. Dare I say better than the original! Thanks Alex.
✨ It's new samwho visual essay o'clock! ✨
Reservoir sampling is one of my favourite algorithms. It allows you to sample from a set without knowing the size of that set.
I try to assume no prior knowledge, and use no scary math notation. Just beautiful visuals.
Let me know what you think! ❤️
I’ve been really into these “deep structure” readings on history lately, so it was a delight when this popped up this morning open.substack.com/pub/uncharte...
