iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 02/10/2026

okay, breaking the flow for a milestone 🥳 day 30 - 5% new folks joined from North Van and PoCo, and the next Gogomi version has the shared map in the app, coming soon!

gogomi screenshot: shared map with progress pop-up

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 30/09/2026

another person shared their Gogomi map with me this morning. they're drawing a tree with their walks in Burnaby lol. canopy up top, trunk all the way down Willingdon to Metrotown. must've been a fun walk!

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 29/09/2026

day 28 - 4.5% 34 of us now, more squiggles on the map! (wayy more than when we started)

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 23/09/2026

i'll only be convinced of personal agents if they 1. are local-first 2. have customisable avatars 3. can fight other people's agents in a real-time grid-based deck-builder

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 22/09/2026

day 21 we're at 3%, and now there's a site to follow along gogomi.app/yvr

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 22/09/2026

got a surprise notification from the library about a hold I placed months ago. maybe this will get me back into books

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 16/09/2026

a friend's building the android version of gogomi and the walk traces were way off. turns out google removed a kalman filter from their fused loc provider, not sure they gave a heads-up issuetracker.google.com/issues/45368...

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 15/09/2026

day 14 - uel's on board - 20 people! we're at 2%

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 13/09/2026

I never learnt to touch type properly. my technique just evolved to whatever caught the most ants in mavis beacon

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 08/09/2026

day 7 coquitlam, new west, langley and surrey have joined the chat. we're at 1%

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 07/09/2026

sep 06 - fortis bc returns with a vengeance

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 02/09/2026

this may look like an ordinary utility box, but it's actually the battleground between a mysterious graffiti artist and city of burnaby aug 02 - mico appears aug 04 - mico doubles down, new colour aug 13 - city paints over it sep 01 - mico claps back, new style

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 26/08/2026

wait, on second thought...you could export the proprietary archive for those apps and take a peek. Just did for Allume (it's a zip), contains the svgs!

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 22/08/2026

starting an are.na board for live doll projects, i.e. 3d printed shell + actuators + microcontroller running a multimodal model

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 16/08/2026

the mind is a beautiful thing. same thing that makes you panic at imagined futures is what gets you screaming in excitement at this Kagurabachi panel

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 12/08/2026

a blessing to have people join in my shenanigans. for this solemn expedition to part with my bonsai, I was accompanied by Joy :)

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 12/08/2026

done. walked up the whole of North Van to the base of Grouse Mountain, did the grind to the peak, and spread Faustie's ashes. 12km, 1200m climb

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 03/08/2026

Was between a 20 mins bus ride, or a 50 mins walk...I picked the walk. Sunday morning in Brentwood:

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 30/07/2026

a little late to the season but hey. today: burnaby mountain 🚴🏿‍♂️

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 30/07/2026

the only time I speak to my neighbourhood friend is when we walk around the block. our texts are just this:

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 24/07/2026

friend's going through a breakup, says she'll be doing a lot of mental-health walks. told her she might as well cover street in Hastings-Sunrise while she's at it

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 12/07/2026

long morning walk to Deer Lake Park*. picked roads I hadn't walked, judged some balconies. lake was good! *first in a while without earpieces

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 09/07/2026

wormery check-in! - 2x more walkers (had to actually optimise the SQL query this time, haha) - also, interesting how the Vancouver/Burnaby divide emerges on the map

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 08/07/2026

only reading articles I saved for later on my kobo has been a great practice if my sleep-deprived or just-woke-up self doesn't find sth interesting, chances are I won't even like it

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 02/07/2026

huh…updated sauntervan's layout because I thought it was ugly, and my year-long writer's block just vanished! switched to a microblog style and backfilling became fun. 55 ➜ 137 posts this week kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 16/06/2026

Another! Back injury survivor says Gogomi is exactly what they needed to get back out there!

"I just wanted to say thanks again for this app. I have a back injury and it's hard sometimes get out and get moving. This app motivates me and it’s fun. I’ve used it two times and I can’t wait until tomorrow to use it again."

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 11/06/2026

Another! Someone's friends in Victoria are jealous they can't play along "Thanks for making my dog walks more fun!"

Hi Kevin,

Hope you had a good weekend. I just wanted to say that love the app! Is there any chance you'll he adding Victoria, BC neighbourhoods at anypoint? I have a bunch of friends in Vic who are jealous haha.

Thanks for making my dog walks more fun!

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 22/05/2026

walked 5km up Mt. Wakakusa to see an ancient burial mound, and Nara of course

From Mt Wakakusa summit. Nara in the distance

view from up top. You can see Tōdai-ji’s massive roof below

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 29/04/2026

after a 6-month hiatus (winter sabbatical), I'm back at it with Gogomi. pushed an update last night to testflight. are we...so back?

Kevin.... This is the best improvement! I love it!
Thank you so much! And Thanks for creating the app in the first place -
I'm such a big fan of your work.
Looking at my map, those divided road red blocks look like they have disappeared which is soooooo great! Nice work and thanks for being receptive to my feedback! I'II send through other examples of problem areas if I find them.
It's so much clearer to read now! I love your Burnaby map... so many hills out there!!! I'll take that on once I finish Vancouver, haha!

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 27/04/2026

awww, need to get an affiliate link with all the folks I keep putting on Witch Hat Atelier

moments later i opened my gmail and saw a notification for your latest post. i needed to read that. also i found WHA on libby + i'm going to try and get physical copies.
also, your web pages are really pretty.

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 26/04/2026

Finished this post at the JJ Bean on Hastings near a notoriously stubborn back door. Been amusing watching what people use…shoulders, backsides, legs, one guy with full hands used his knee! Helped an elderly person who couldn't budge it. So many personalities, just as many ways to open a door.

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 24/04/2026

😂 didn't realise my reputation on ig is the guy walking all of burnaby. the sauntervan plot twist is that I've walked more of burnaby (~23%) than vancouver (~13%)

Lol I saw the dragon pagoda posted on reddit and had a feeling it was you! Haha I was like, is there another person in burnaby trying to walk all of the streets?! Haha

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 23/04/2026

They're still at it! Closing 50% of Vancouver :)

Hi Kevin!

I hope you're doing well. I'm so close to 50% of Vancouver streets now. Lots of running! I still love love love the app!

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 23/04/2026

and Morris the guiana chestnut: growing new fingers!

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 20/04/2026

infinite scrolling is great actually, you just need more depth

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 20/04/2026

morning walk in Capitol Hill pt.2, tracing unexplored roads

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 20/04/2026

biggest test of my financial discipline this year has been not buying new lego. just saw the woodland mushroom botanical set, very tempting!

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 18/04/2026

evening walk in Manhattan, chasing reds

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 11/04/2026

an evening walk in Coquitlam. tapped at Inlet Centre station to meet a friend I haven't seen in 2 years. walked up to the river that divides this city and PoCo.

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 10/04/2026

curious what the reward cycles are for mangakas WHA’s one of my all time faves. started in 2016*, and the anime’s only coming out NOW, a decade later before it goes mainstream… *I discovered it two years ago at a book shop on Cambie

5 witch hat atelier volumes scattered on a desk

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 04/04/2026

walk ended at McGill library to pick up a hold. my self-imposed rule is to only read this at Confederation Park. hopefully my hold lasts til I'm done 😆

Me holding book (A Confederacy of Dunces) near Confederation Park

A cloud with thin trail rising behind it, looks like it's smoking a cigarette

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 04/04/2026

a chill morning walk around Capitol Hill (new neighbourhood). ended up lost in the bushes (map ≠ territory) and popped out close to a viewpoint I didn't know existed!

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 24/03/2026

thoroughly enjoyed it. glad I picked it as the last sci-fi read for the year. on to the next!

books on library desk: Super Nintendo by Keza Macdonald (next read). Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (finished reading)

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