Will
simons.dev
Will
@simons.dev
closing the loops

🛹 https://skateboard.fyi building an online home for skateboard history
🏡 https://simons.dev portfolio and online home
Currently working on building an Archivist style diy book scanner. In my research, I realized that Noisebridge in SF has one from the before times. Here's a picture I took last night ~~ it's in a hallway, covered in dust. Ready to be revived
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
borzoi dog spirits met on a rainy sf day
September 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Skaters With A Cause - Thrasher October 1984

"Four skaters take to the road on a cross country skate trek to benefit the Multiple Sclerosis Society and, as Bob Denike reports, to find out a little more about America and themselves."
August 31, 2025 at 7:43 AM
one of the goals of skateboard.fyi is to make a graph of connections similar to how wikigrapher works wikigrapher.com/pages?title=...
August 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
August 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Deep linking to a page with query param

Ron Allen for H Street
Thrasher Magazine - September 1989

skateboard.fyi/magazines/th...
August 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Thrasher covers on skateboard.fyi

The site is a work in progress, if you'd like to contribute to the annotation work, let me know.

#skateboarding #archivist
August 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
grief feels like this sometimes
August 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Ah, another day. Working on the visual annotation system ~~ you can tag the skater/photographer/brand/location now
August 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
prototyping a different kind of image zooming ~~ uses javascript to calculate positioning, then CSS and a background image to present a zoomed overlay
August 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
working on image zoom and annotations today

Jim Thiebaud from Thrasher September 1989
#skateboarding #code
August 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
data migrations with stats - storing json gzipped in s3 rather than in a sqlite db
July 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
GZIP TIME
July 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Natas Kaupas in a Thunder Trucks ad from Thrasher Magazine August 1988 #skateboarding #archival
July 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
survival calls for brotherhood, integrated skating has and must emerge - Thrasher Magazine, December 1982
July 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Hockey ad from June 2017 Thrasher ~~ their new video just dropped, heavy stuff
July 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
zooming around -> Scott Foss from Thrasher Magazine's first issue, January 1981
July 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Image Zoomingggg
July 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM