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Darren Wiens

@darrenwiens.github.io
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Geospatial dev sharing proofs of concept and other map weirdness. Skeets my own, sadly.

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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 07/09/2026
Nova Scotia traffic jam
A group of snails on the beach
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 31/08/2026
Break out of your echo chamber with 100% Darrens, the Darrens of Bluesky. A nice mix of humour, arts, and science (including dinosaurs). go.bsky.app/BqcjKPd
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 31/08/2026
Happy #Raygun documentary release eve, to those that celebrate 🦘
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 26/08/2026
Introducing: Whisper Map, the map that somewhat creepily whispers the name of all visible countries, volume weighted by proximity to screen centre. Sound ON! 🔊 whisper-map.netlify.app
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 21/08/2026
Airlines are so 🤬
Image showing no electronic boarding passes for basic fares
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 16/08/2026
Yet another font thing. Remember quadkeys? They split map tiles into quadrants 0 (top left), 1 (top right), 2 (bottom left), 3 (bottom right), and add more digits as you zoom in. E.g., Nova Scotia falls in quadkey 03032 at zoom 5. #gischat #geography
Map showing quadkey 03032, which covers the province of Nova Scotia.
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 16/08/2026
Bloobs
A cookie sheet filled with blueberries
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 15/08/2026
Still kinda obsessed with font images. Made a script that generates a jigsaw puzzle of shape N x M from any image. Not sure why I bothered with the jigsaw puzzle tabs, they don't really do anything. Video shows me typing A-Y (25 letters, 5x5) with the custom jigsaw font.
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 14/08/2026
DYK you can embed pretty much any image directly in a font? Here I’ve made a font where each capital letter’s glyph is a QR code that leads to that letter’s Wikipedia page.
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 12/08/2026
Completely unrelated to yesterday’s handmade dovetail, today I made some sturdy shop shelves held together with routered dovetail housings #woodworking
Four wooden boards laid parallel with two perpendicular boards clamped above, delineating a rectangular in which the router will runA long wide dovetail groove has been routered across the four parallel boardsA complementarily dovetailed board has been fitted in the grooveThe full shelf with a dovetail housing at each end
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 11/08/2026
A little loose, but overall happy with first attempt at handmade dovetail #woodworking
Hand holding two pieces of wood, joined at the corner with a relatively loose dovetail joint
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 07/07/2026
Tomorrow: USMNT is back in World Cup
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 27/06/2026
Does anyone else think about the shape of the Netherlands?
A cursed map of the Netherlands with an eye and mouth superimposed, making it look like a face
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 16/06/2026
Another example of AI trying to kill me
AI chat: “how long after eating can you swim? You can swim immediately after eating. The idea of waiting 30 to 60 minutes is widely considered a myth.”
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 15/06/2026
This type of sneaky checkmate when you’re clearly losing makes chess so worthwhile
Chess win probability chart showing white clearly losing for most of the game and then a big spike at the end of the game.
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 11/06/2026
Started playing chess online, and having a hard time finding a ranking low enough to find opponents who will make similar boneheaded moves as me
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 05/06/2026
Whoever invented half caff coffee is smart because it costs the same but I'm drinking 3x more. ☕
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 12/05/2026
Government: would it be ok to fill out the long form census? My partner: Ok?? I prefer it!
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 12/05/2026
I survived the Bermuda Triangle, twice. 😅
An image of an in-flight map showing the aircraft entering the Bermuda Triangle
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 11/05/2026
The next one will be probably be a congratulations about this important milestone, but I’d never know
Image of Gmail app with 10k unreads
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 28/04/2026
In 1984, Hulk Hogan sucker punched, spat on, and ultimately defeated Iran’s Iron Sheik, ushering in the era of Hulkamania. I feel like this doesn’t have absolutely nothing to do with current US foreign policy.
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 27/04/2026
No regrets
Photo of a piece of ham between two chocolate chip cookies, sandwich-style
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 27/04/2026
Being the intellectual I am, I was watching the documentary, Hulk Hogan: Real American, and my favourite part so far is when Hogan starts morphing into the American patriot superhero character (e1, 39:30), and the dramatic soundtrack is... "God Save the King/Queen". 😵‍💫
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 23/04/2026
The province is making it very nearly impossible to reduce yard waste (i.e. fuel accumulation) through burning. My municipality is in moderate restriction and it’s raining. The only times it hasn’t been in moderate restriction, everything was too wet to burn.
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 23/04/2026
I love that #ArcGIS does everything extra slow when you do it in an Enterprise GDB to make you feel like you're doing something important
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 19/04/2026
Getting my axe (Gransfors Bruk Outdoor Axe) onto a proper maintenance schedule. 1. original axe 2. sanded (120 & 180 grit) 3. touch up head (I very lightly sanded any blemishes, probably bad) 4. oiled head and handle with boiled linseed oil
original axesanded (120 & 180 grit)touch up head (I very lightly sanded any blemishes, probably bad)oiled head and handle with boiled linseed oil
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 18/04/2026
It’s a shame that there’s no market for artisanal kindling, because it’s pretty satisfying to make
A photo featuring a wheel barrow full of artisanal kindling
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 18/04/2026
Wow, a ferry from Vancouver to Halifax is a long route
News text, including, “More electric ferry services are being announced in cities from Vancouver to Halifax.”
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 14/04/2026
Do the writers of #BigMistakes know the difference between a hoe and an ice scraper? Because if so, they wrote a next level joke in episode 2.
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 13/04/2026
Experiencing severe ArcRage™️ this morning 🤬
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 10/04/2026
Nova Scotia nanny state already hampering my burning (everything is literally too wet to burn btw)
Nova Scotia burn restrictions map. Most of the map is under moderate burn restrictions.
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 05/04/2026
Addition by Mantiplication #bluejays www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/...
sportsnet.ca
Blue Jays option Little, Estrada to triple-A, select Mantiply, Voth
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 05/04/2026
Life hack: looksmaxxing < logsmaxxing 🪵
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 04/04/2026
Just here to say again, Heineman is a better option than Little this year. #bluejays
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 01/04/2026
Hear me out, Heineman is available most nights and he doesn't even train as a pitcher... #bluejays
mlb pitching stat, showing catcher tyler heineman's era = 22.50 while pitcher brendon little's era = 47.25
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 05/03/2026
Kristi Noem? That’s like 5 distractions ago.
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 04/03/2026
Need to update a field's data type (i.e. re-create a feature class) in an enterprise geodatabase feature layer published to #ArcGIS Portal. #schemalocks
Interstellar meme showing astronaut, and text, "this little maneuver's gonna cost us 51 years".
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 24/02/2026
The numbers coming out of Washington today are suspect (source: ESPN)
Image showing mlb spring training standing with Washington record 3-0 and win percentage 1.167 (source: ESPN)
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 18/02/2026
I love the #olympics in far away time zones because my dvr becomes the Schrödinger's cat experiment. Is 🇨🇦 🏒 still alive? 🤷
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 15/02/2026
Having never heard of mixed team snowboard cross, I will be very disappointed if the teams don’t go down on a single tandem board. #olympics
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 31/01/2026
Got my skis shined up, but haven’t found a piece of juicy fruit yet. share.google/Zwq0Uhib0Wb0...
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Juicy Fruit Gum Commercial 1989 (Skiing)
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 15/01/2026
Hello darkness, my old friend.
dreaded generic error 999999 message from arcgis
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 03/01/2026
Timeline cleanser 🐥
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 17/12/2025
As I sit eating some almost forgotten, now room temperature soup that had to leave to get to a doctor’s appointment for two vaccines, I’m reminded of the concept of confounding variables.
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 12/12/2025
Warning: this social media post contains a warning about a news story that contains a warning about a photo of a dead goose under a photo of multiple dead geese
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 23/11/2025
Just #F1 manufacturing drama. Verstappen wins LV GP; closes in on DQ'd Norris: www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/i...
espn.co.uk
Verstappen wins in Las Vegas as McLaren handed double DQ
Max Verstappen claimed his second Las Vegas Grand Prix win ahead of championship leader Lando Norris to keep his title chances alive.
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 20/11/2025
I’ll only remember he shot someone in the face.
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 18/11/2025
Hmmmm
Image showing search for cloudflare, which fails because of internal server error
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 13/11/2025
Why is everything a “tranche” nowadays?
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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 08/11/2025
Lando dropped a banana peel 🍌 #BrazilGP #F1
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