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Henry Wilkinson
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Designer, knows some things about web archives, sometimes I also make music and maps!

🌉 bridged from https://mastodon.design/@hank on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)" is this tech hype cycle's "Meta" rebrand.
January 6, 2026 at 2:46 AM
I need to re-pin a lock. I'm just missing a few Schlage pins and one replacement spring.

Does anywbody know of shop that will mail you just the 5 pins you need? Everything I'm finding is all bulk.

Seems like something @deviantollam might know of??
December 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
New blog post! This time, a reflection on the Wikireader: a dedicated gadget from 2010 that lets you read a text-only version of Wikipedia. 15 years later and it still works better than ever!

https://wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-12-20-wikireader/
I Like The Wikireader
What's 2010 is cool again!
wilkinson.graphics
December 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Rhizome's Conifer shutdown may be the most responsible way of shutting down a platform that I've ever seen. Also very happy to see that users are being given a good path to move to Webrecorder's services! If you're thinking about moving your archives there, Browsertrix is a great home them […]
Original post on mastodon.design
mastodon.design
December 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
> If you shoot someone and they don't have medical insurance, that doesn't mean you won't go to jail. If you pack a toaster with insufficient padding, that doesn't mean the insurance company will pay. You're responsible when you do something dumb […]
Original post on mastodon.design
mastodon.design
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
In the name of "spec adherence" browser implementors have creating something truly useless: A universal text colour contrast function that produces unreadable text.

WCAG's garbage colour contrast algorithm is actively harmful.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
For the few digipres people that follow me over here, this look into Disney's sound archives is pretty cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUIao8E-ipM
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Affinity is free, I have thoughts! If you want to know what they are you can click this link: https://wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-11-01-affinity-is-free/

If you don't want to know what they are, you can do other things! Ride a bike! Watch the sunset! The world is your oyster!
Affinity is Free! ...But at What Cost?
My thoughts on the state of graphics software in 2025
wilkinson.graphics
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
@designtokens now has a stable version! https://www.w3.org/community/design-tokens/2025/10/28/design-tokens-specification-reaches-first-stable-version/

Congrats to all involved! Looking forward to seeing this implemented across all the tools I use.
www.w3.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New blog post! Using 3D scan data created with my phone as reference imagery for underground mapping of subway stations in #openstreetmap

Check it out! https://wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-10-25-3d-mapping/
Mapping Underground Structures with 3D Scans
My recent dive into indoor mapping with OpenStreetMap using photogrammetric references.
wilkinson.graphics
October 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
> I was hopeful he’d be eligible for subsidized housing through the state’s re-entry programs, only to find that many of the opportunities had been siphoned off to the Venezuelan immigrants, and nothing was available. A crisis of conservative design, this desperate scramble for scarce resources […]
Original post on mastodon.design
mastodon.design
October 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reposted by Henry Wilkinson
question: "is the title field in a work registered in the DOI system a cost-effective means of storage"
answer:

curl https://api.datacite.org/dois/10.57874/531s-1f11 | jq -r '.data.attributes.titles[0].title' | base64 --decode | play -t mp3 - […]
Original post on neuromatch.social
neuromatch.social
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
October 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Another audio WIP: This time Axel F!
[Audio] Original post on mastodon.design
mastodon.design
October 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I have never wanted to do anything less
October 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Through the power of special interest info-dumping, I may have secured a consulting gig lol
September 27, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Wow the world of oscilloscope graphics has come a long way!

https://osci-render.com/
osci-render
osci-render.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Apparently if you edit Wikipedia enough you get access to JSTOR???
September 13, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Reposted by Henry Wilkinson
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
September 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Oh no I've made my way onto missile silo YouTube again
September 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Reposted by Henry Wilkinson
August 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Docusign has an AI summarize feature which is kind of the exact thing I don't want when I'm signing documents.
August 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reposted by Henry Wilkinson
“Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t

Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/mary-had-schizophrenia-then-suddenly-she-didnt
August 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
@kiwix is now available as a TrueNAS app! If you run TrueNAS you're one click & a ~140GB Torrent away from having your own offline copy of Wikipedia!
August 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Apple Maps on the web has been in beta for over a year now! Will they ever fully commit?

https://maps.apple.com
Apple Maps: Directions, Guides & Traffic
Find local businesses, get place recommendations, view maps and get driving directions on Apple Maps.
maps.apple.com
August 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM