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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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For those who couldn't catch our latest podcast live, here's the recording! Thank you @bdon.org for sharing your thoughts about all things cloud-native maps, and to everyone who tuned in live, especially those joining us from Norway and Egypt in the wee hours!
youtu.be/VACq-POg_dw
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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happy html day ❇️
August 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Indeed… @htmlenergy.bsky.social is all around us
July 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
“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”
July 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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)
June 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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come observe my presentation tomorrow (first apply to itp camp two months ago)
June 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The business model of food is drinks
The business model of transit is real estate
The business model of maps is ?
May 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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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
May 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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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)
May 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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The Visual Display of Qualitative Information
April 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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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.
April 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Make cool stuff. Share it with people
April 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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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.
April 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I don't want gen AI in my geospatial technology. I want
April 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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
April 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
vector mind, raster soul
April 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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...
April 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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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
April 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
cooking some test tilesets for new Rasterio PMTiles plugin

pmtiles.io?url=https%3A...
April 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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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
latest.allmaps.org
April 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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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.
April 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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New example program for generating the minimum viable PMTiles, a single PNG:

github.com/protomaps/go...
March 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM