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Brandon ℒⅈ∪

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building a new map of the world at @protomaps.com cartographic tools, neogeography, systems programming, @recursecenter.bsky.social, https://80s.nyc https://bdon.org https://www.are.na/bdon 📍 Taiwan

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html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social · Aug 2

happy html day ❇️

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Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · Jul 30

html day 2025 taipei

bdon.github.io/html-day-2025

HTML Day 2025 臺北

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Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · Jul 27

Indeed… @htmlenergy.bsky.social is all around us

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Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · Jul 8

“Fractions of this work will be sold to online buyers, after which the collective will use a hot wire jig to slice the baby apart”

Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · Jun 24

anyone in nyc want to #geobreakfast this Friday?

9:30 AM @ downtown brooklyn mile end deli, reply or DM for rsvp please! (we need a headcount)

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Logan Williams @obtusatum.bsky.social · Jun 6

come observe my presentation tomorrow (first apply to itp camp two months ago)

Extending our sight -- seeing in infrared
Night Vision Goggles
Needs batteries
light from screen disrupts sleep
- heavy
look like a fascist

Stacking a bunch of theatrical lighting gels
- Acoustic
- look deranged
- blocks blue light (and all other light)
- and go outside! You won't believe what you see. DO NOT LOC
Serious, permanent eye damage can occur in seconds. Then t

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Greg Technology ❪⎷❫ @greg.technology · May 23

blog.greg.technology/2025/05/22/g...

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Glitch is Killing Free Hosting, So I’m Saving One Special Corner of the Internet

blog.greg.technology

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Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · May 16

The business model of food is drinks
The business model of transit is real estate
The business model of maps is ?

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · May 13

blogging update: i am posting through my dissertation, it is very bare bones and a painfully niche topic but I'm pretending this is me making progress: placing.technology

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kelin @kelin.bsky.social · May 12

just opened up limited edition preorders for poetry.camera ~

(it feels weird to do self-promo on bsky but i also want to celebrate our first batch drop!! a long time coming)

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · Apr 27

The Visual Display of Qualitative Information

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Apr 23

I sometimes muse about the savage job-destroying nature of the open source community: hundreds of thousands of developers working tirelessly to unemploy as many of their peers as possible by giving away the code they've written for free.

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Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · Apr 19

Make cool stuff. Share it with people

Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · Apr 15

tailscale is the game changer here, basically any task I would use a EC2 spot instance for I can do for "free" on a 64gb ram+ gamer box (CapEx vs. OpEx, etc)

limiting factor is fan noise

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Chia @chia.bsky.social · Apr 15

tired of landing pages and single-page sites. you should make websites with as many pages possible

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Xander ✺ @spectralcodex.com · Apr 13

My site now has a search feature! You can also filter by region or theme to narrow results.

Technical details: this is a Pagefind implementation, completely static, using the astro-pagefind integration. Overriding parts of the default UI with Tailwind feels like a bit of a kludge but hey, it works.

Screenshot of the Spectral Codex website showing off the search bar and search results dropdown.

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Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · Apr 9

I don't want gen AI in my geospatial technology. I want

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Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · Apr 8

we’re almost there guys. we’re gonna do it. we’re eliminating income taxes. we’re replacing them with only ta…

…taxing the unimproved value of land

Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · Apr 6

vector mind, raster soul

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Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · Apr 6

Enjoyed being on @jeremyjung.com's Software Sessions podcast! Topics:

* Maps as a primitive of the web
* The appeal of static sites
* @protomaps.com vs. OSM
* Dynamics + biz of FOSS vs. SaaS
* Thinking about "finishing" projects

Listen + read transcript at www.softwaresessions.com/episodes/pro...

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Jeremy Jung @jeremyjung.com · Apr 6

I talked to @bdon.org about self hosting static maps with @protomaps.com!

He mentioned open source maintainers usually only hear complaints from their users 😣

If someone's project helped you build something let them know!

www.softwaresessions.com/episodes/pro...

Brandon Liu on Protomaps

Using static maps to build sites that last

www.softwaresessions.com

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Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · Apr 5

cooking some test tilesets for new Rasterio PMTiles plugin

pmtiles.io?url=https%3A...

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Bert Spaan @bertspaan.nl · Apr 1

This week, I'm working on creating dynamic Open Graph images for various parts of allmaps.org. The first is for latest.allmaps.org, a small website that shows the last 250 maps georeferenced with Allmaps.

Allmaps Latest

The latest maps georeferenced with Allmaps Editor

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Bert Spaan @bertspaan.nl · Apr 1

I've been very quiet on Bluesky. It's time to change that! Hello, my name is Bert, I'll post about maps and computers.

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Brandon ℒⅈ∪ @bdon.org · Mar 25

hanbyul.xyz/words/vertic...

Overthinking about vertical writing of Hangul labels on maps - hanbyul.xyz

It comforts me to think about one thing in unnecessary detail.

hanbyul.xyz

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