Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 09/01/2026It looks like the dependencies I need to do some geo stuff in a Pyodide notebook used to work, but they removed the packages due to build issues... pyodide.org/en/stable/pr... 100
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 03/01/2026Another mini-milestone ... now I can publish Jupyter Lite Python notebooks (using Pyodide/WASM) onto hex.camp locations ... here's a demo that extracts the OpenStreetMap data for the cities that make up Metro Vancouver 6kg6rweynwea.vanhex.ca/lab/index.ht... 031
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 01/01/2026Happy New Year! I'm trying to figure out how to get data out of OpenStreetMap and into hex.camp ... here's a query to show all the cities in Metro Vancouver. overpass-turbo.eu/s/2i5n 120
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 11/08/2025I made hex.camp "communities" for Victoria (vichex.ca) and Vancouver (vanhex.ca) ... but I didn't have anything for the rest of Vancouver Island or the gulf islands, so I recently set up islandhex.ca ... no content there yet, but now I can create websites geographically rooted in that region. 040
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 05/08/2025Slowly I'm expanding the Hex.Camp coverage area - working on North and South America now. I'm testing using some web archives of Wikipedia for various cities. Here's Mexico City: 6smvxbcanwaa.americas.peerhex.org 132
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 29/07/2025First step towards global coverage for Hex.Camp ... I took all the H3 base cells and split them between "americas", "emea" and "asia". github.com/hexcamp/hexc... 120
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 27/07/2025IPFS Cluster can generate a Graphviz image showing how it's wired together... good, it looks like what I was expecting 000
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 21/07/2025Pinned my old Filecoin deal traffic visualizations into my IPFS cluster for archival purposes. Still frustrating trying to coax IPFS into finding the data on the network, even though it's there. observablehq.com/@jimpick/vid... 040
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 20/07/2025I tried using @graze.social to drop my Victoria News feed into an iframe on my VicHex.ca welcome site. Works pretty slick considering how little effort I put into it. 6kgrvlbslccq.vichex.ca/news/ 060
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 19/07/2025Looks like it is possible to publish a static snapshot of a Grafana dashboard via IPFS to a Hex.Camp hexagon-based website! Here's what it looks like: 6kgvlnw3nw3a.seahex.org/dashboard/sn... 020
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 19/07/2025Didn’t get any feedback yet on the blog post … so the dog won and I took him to the park. Lots of squirrels here. 130
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 18/07/2025I started a new blog for Hex.Camp development updates! The first post is about how I made a custom search engine using Common Crawl web archives and the Stract open source web search engine. 6kgrunw3nwza.vichex.ca/posts/2025-0... 261
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 04/07/2025My dog was mad at me for using the computer too much, so I took him to see bunnies 040
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 04/07/2025For all the WARC files in my experiment here, this is how much disk space it takes for the indexes... 6kgruqaeaaaa.vichex.ca/community-as... 100
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 04/07/2025Still experimenting with using Stract as a tiny search engine ... I loaded up all my WARC files for the Victoria/Saanich community associations, and the results are really, really good! I would actually use this. It's not the barebones experience I was expecting. I like the autosuggest feature. 130
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 27/06/2025The AWS spot instance I had in eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) has been "capacity-not-available" for more than 24 hours. I'll think I'll expand my fleet by adding another spot instance somewhere in Europe. Good practice, I've got terraform working, but it's not nearly automated enough. 000
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 26/06/2025Because each website name is actually a hexagon on the map, I can make a clickable map showing all the archives I made. 6kgruaaeaaaa.vichex.ca 110
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 14/06/2025I'm going to be using a lot of maps on hex.camp ... I updated my demo that shows photos around Victoria use the vector tiles from OpenStreetMap 2kgrv5ga2i.vichex.ca 110
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 07/06/2025Here's another option ... still a smaller hexagon, but it covers more area. Both are a descendant of the large hexagon. I think I'll go with this one for starters, and expand the area later. 100
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 07/06/2025Vancouver is challenging ... it's split between bigger H3 hexagons, but there's a smaller one that covers downtown quite nicely. I'm going to create some welcome websites / landing pages ... it would be easier if they are all in one hexagon (until I have more automation done). 101
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 05/06/2025I'm still the only person who's going to be able to operate this thing for a while... 010
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 16/05/2025I mapped that to a hexagon on the map "6kgrvlcuqdaq" that matches where it is physically located. Seems like a good way to organize web archives that match physical locations in my city. 121
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 10/05/2025Looks like 8.8.8.8 (Google) caps it at 6 hours. But 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) does 68 years. :-) 020
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 19/04/2025I'm definitely seeing that sometimes ... I have no idea how to fix it. 110
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 16/04/2025I found a picture of the article on Twitter (not going to link there). Fun! 110
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 14/04/2025The bigger hexagon I'm using to cover the Seattle area covers a bit of extra area, so that's why it's not within city limits. The id for that hexagon is "gkgv6" ... I'm using that as a kubernetes namespace on all my servers to group the services I'm creating. 120
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 14/04/2025It's mapped into DNS at 6kgvhnw3nwya.seahex.org ... it's not exactly random. I've reserved a bitmask of the heirarchical hexagons for this purpose. Here's where it decodes to on the map. Since this cluster/pinset will cover the Seattle area, the "hexagon id" is in that area too. 110
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 10/04/2025It was a lot of work to move my "repair" process to my Knative Eventing Kubernetes machine, but it seems to be working fine. Now, even though my AWS spot instances are being interrupted dozens of times a day with different IP addresses, all the DNS records get fixed continuously. 110
Jim Pick @jimpick.com · 04/04/2025Sometimes my iPhone transcribes the scam phone calls I don’t answer 000
