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Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics
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Designer who knows some things about web archives, OpenStreetMap enthusiast, occasional maker of music.

Prev @webrecorder.net Currently @EQTY
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Everyone else is posting their word clouds, but I'm keeping the streak alive!
A graph displaying the percentage of Henry's Bluesky image posts. 100% of images have alt text which is 116% above average.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Never forget
A basement apartment kitchen with two small skinny grey refrigerators that are reminiscent of certain buildings.
October 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Trying something more original for day 2, this is all made from just 16 nodes!
September 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Finally got a chance to give @makham.itch.io's Pixel Composer a spin after a few years of letting them cook... This software is kinda awesome now?! Look what I can make with just 7 nodes!
September 21, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Super cool stuff and some very nice people at Swash & Serif this year! Check out the show if you’re into letters and in Toronto, it runs until Sep. 23rd!

swashandserif.ca
A crowded gallery of folks looking at cool typography art! A crazy grid pattern optical illusion that conveys the text “I don’t feel so good”. The squares appear to shift around The words “crash out”, lettered as brush script pixel art and printed on a doily An abstract piece consisting of red type with green squares on a white background. The text is set in a monospaced typeface and forms a larger abstract shape.
September 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Just now discovering the @ournetworks.ca 2022 USB drive has a secret!
A hidden text file containing ASCII art of a flower with the message "It's dangerous to go alone. Here, take this with you ❤️"
August 15, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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A land economics expert you say?!
Black and white headshot of 1800s American political economist Henry George
August 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Explored Toronto’s newest park today with @andia.bsky.social!
A lush green river surrounded by newly planted trees, wetlands, and meadows. A decommissioned power plant and large power lines are visible in the background amidst a partially cloudy sky.
July 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Personal ICS feed sounds pretty cool... but I'm at a loss as to how to get it from the profile page?

Feed aside, I find it useful to be able to add single events to another calendar. Luma's "Add to Calendar" dialogue is pretty decent.
SmokeSignal's user profile page. Users can see a list of recent activity and events, there's a settings button, and an option to import records. Luma's Add to Calendar dialogue explaining that an email was sent that should have added an event to your calendar while also offering the user the option to add the event to Google Calendar, Yahoo, Outlook, or iCal.
July 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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A card with prompts on it titled HTML in the Park. A cute green bug is resting on the top left of the card. Laptops, people, and picnic blankets can be seen in the corners of the frame
July 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Tommy Thompson Turtle Time!
A photo of a turtle crossing a gravel road around sunset. A long shadow stretches out behind it as its head reaches upward toward the direction of the sun
June 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Found it last night!
One of James McLeod’s “austerity TO” art plaques reading “Neighbourhood Character: 2022” crediting John Tory as the artist of an abandoned building.
June 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Goats in the park!
Goats chilling in a grassy meadow surrounded by fence.
June 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Here’s some example pages
A table of characters and how they map to hex codes A description and diagram of accessing memory from the stack and heap on the Macintosh A diagram of the Macintosh sound port A book spread with two diagrams, one of how the Macintosh’s mouse is connected to the pins in the port and another showing the keyboard’s connection to its port pins
May 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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This thing continues to get even cooler! Thanks for adding the hex code inputs for the non-Oxide folks out there — not that your brand colours aren't nice :)
ASCII art rendering of an old computer with a CRT monitor on a desk at the beach
April 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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For reference, it should look something like this:
A square with red and green sides, the middle line between the sides is blurred respects the brightness of both sides and accurately transitions between them instead of getting darker
April 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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I thought it would be easy to improve the blur so that it linearizes the image before blurring and re-applies the gamma curve after — apparently this is a completely unsolved problem in the web ecosystem and I can't find any JS packages that handle blur properly??? :(
An image with green and red sides, blurred with a gross dark line in the middle that shouldn't be darker than either side but somehow is due to improper colour math.
April 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The situation quickly became dire as the next button disappeared! After a last ditch attempt to try a different browser, turns out THE FORM IS BROKEN IN FIREFOX.
Two browser windows side by side showing the same web form. In Firefox there is no "Validate your slip" section which is the only way the user can proceed with creating their T4 slip!
March 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Made a new app icon for @makeworld.space's app: Dithertime!

Check out his blog post about it here: www.makeworld.space/2025/02/dith...

...Or grab it for yourself on Itch.io! makew0rld.itch.io/dithertime
A macOS app icon containing a pink, jelly like representation of an X made of five cubes. This x pattern is similar to one commonly found in a Bayer matrix dithered image, as shown in the background gradient behind the icon.
February 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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First monitor comp in YEARS!
February 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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@subvert.fm released a first look mockup of their platform today to solicit member feedback! Had some fun this evening reconcepting their check out dialogue box with one of my favourite Glem Aces releases.
The dialogue released with their mockup, a light brown pop up with one button (add to cart) and generic mockup artist names and album art A modal set on a darkened blurred background with a bright white input field and bold orange check out now button. The album art and text are now of Champion 91 from Glem Aces.
February 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Bluesky's block culture has gotten out of control
A screenshot of The Wall Street Journal's website stating that I have been blocked, likely due to bot activity.
January 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I'm entering my liar arc
The other day I was able to briefly convince my mom that The Brutalist — the new movie — is about a German architect who's name is "Hans Binkler" and that everyone in the office knew him as the smartest guy around so they coined the term "if you don't know what to thinkler, go see Binkler!" "You'll see it in the movie" I said, and she BOUGHT IT! Then she went ".... This is all nonsense". I've been trying to relive that high ever since
January 15, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Was changing the family name intentional? Somewhat bummed I'll have to go back and fix any documents I made with V1 instead of being able to use V2 as a drop-in replacement.... Though I suppose for some the explicit versioning may be a benefit? Kinda annoying for search though :\
Screenshot of Berkeley Mono V2 listed in Apple's Font Book viewer. It is named "TX-02" — the font's product ID instead of "Berkeley Mono" — the previous name.
December 29, 2024 at 3:04 AM
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Still at a loss as to what the difference is between "Update all" and "Get updates".
Screenshot of the Microsoft Store's app updates page. Two buttons are in the top right labeled "Update all" and "Get Updates. The only help text provided is "Download and install app updates by clicking "Get updates", an action that the "Update all" button ALSO seems to do!
December 11, 2024 at 6:19 AM