Will @simons.dev · 09/09/2026I fixed the white balance on the Poweredge magazines ~ they were slightly red. As part of this, I worked on a tool to look at the colors of pages. On the skateboard.fyi/magazines/ page you can sort the magazine covers by date, hue, warmth, and lightness 030
Will @simons.dev · 02/09/2026RIP I found a sequence of Micah in Thrasher December 99 skateboard.fyi/magazines/th... 000
Will @simons.dev · 12/08/2026The beauty of OCRing these mags is we can formalize our understanding of when vert actually died. We can see street skating come in to the picture with terms like "handrail", "ledge", and "switch" 010
Will @simons.dev · 01/07/2026"This is how the list works: All basic romp tricks con be placed into the following six categories: Liptricks, Airs, Handplants, Footplants, Slides, and Rolling Tricks. Each category includes the basic tricks (or grabs) and ways of doing those tricks... 000
Will @simons.dev · 01/07/2026POWEREDGE December 1990 This is a great issue. There is a beautiful diagram by Alec Schroeder that outlines every possibility for a trick on a ramp. 110
Will @simons.dev · 23/06/2026POWEREDGE July 1980 Brian Boyd cover, Remy Stratton, Tommy Guerrero, and a 17 year old Peter Hewitt 110
Will @simons.dev · 22/06/2026POWEREDGE June 1990 Mark Gonzales on the cover. Chad Dinkins on the contents page, with an upside down Cockroach Australia ad. Super sick Jeff Walsh spread on the Tallahasee Banks 010
Will @simons.dev · 22/06/2026diyskateparks.net A 3D archive of DIY skateparks across America. Here's a ramp I collaborated on, I did the final welding installation of the tower portion. 010
Will @simons.dev · 17/06/2026POWEREDGE May 1990 Alex Schroeder leaves as managing editor. $17.70 for a yearly subscription. Thrasher today is $36.95. 010
Will @simons.dev · 12/06/2026POWEREDGE February 1990 "I used to be disgusted... but now I'm just STOKED" #skateboarding 021
Will @simons.dev · 13/05/2026Now the work of processing scans: crop, adjust, collate. Then ingest in to the sk8.fyi pipeline/knowledgbase 040
Will @simons.dev · 05/05/2026Phew! My averages were pretty good.. Scanning progress using an Archivist DIY Book Scanner 1126 pages per hour 3.2s avg sec per page 2.69s latest sec per page 22 latest pages/min 010
Will @simons.dev · 05/04/2026Working my way through Transworld. I've scanned 150 out of 397 total ~ 37.8% complete. That's around 40hours left of active scanning time. Let's get it. I built a progress dashboard to keep me on track and have front and center my scanning goal for the day. 010
Will @simons.dev · 15/03/2026Started streaming the scanning efforts. Will do a write up on the software/hardware architecture that I settled on, I'm pretty happy with it. 131
Will @simons.dev · 15/02/2026First magazine processed. Poweredge June 1991 Here's a contact sheet 000
Will @simons.dev · 14/02/2026the scan processor is a program that takes a collection of scanned images, and allows for cropping, image correction, deskewing, and collating. To double check the automated cropping, I have a web ui that allows me to quickly modify the bounding polygon that was found. 000
Will @simons.dev · 11/02/2026Setting up a livestreaming studio to scan the complete Transworld Skateboarding over the next few months. 000
Will @simons.dev · 31/01/2026there's some good names in skateboarding.. came upon Gerd Rieger in POWEREDGE April 1990 000
Will @simons.dev · 29/01/2026working on a scan processor for all the skate mags. I'm using local Apple VNDetectDocumentSegmentationRequest API to detect the corners. Then, I can use arrow keys to adjust corners. I get a little preview of the final crop, as well as a fine tune corner view for pixel level adjustments 000
Will @simons.dev · 04/12/2025Currently 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 000
Will @simons.dev · 31/08/2025Skaters 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." 131
Will @simons.dev · 31/08/2025one of the goals of skateboard.fyi is to make a graph of connections similar to how wikigrapher works wikigrapher.com/pages?title=... 000
Will @simons.dev · 19/08/2025Deep linking to a page with query param Ron Allen for H Street Thrasher Magazine - September 1989 skateboard.fyi/magazines/th... 010
Will @simons.dev · 18/08/2025Thrasher 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 010
Will @simons.dev · 04/08/2025Ah, another day. Working on the visual annotation system ~~ you can tag the skater/photographer/brand/location now 000
Will @simons.dev · 03/08/2025prototyping a different kind of image zooming ~~ uses javascript to calculate positioning, then CSS and a background image to present a zoomed overlay 021
Will @simons.dev · 03/08/2025working on image zoom and annotations today Jim Thiebaud from Thrasher September 1989 #skateboarding #code 010
Will @simons.dev · 26/07/2025data migrations with stats - storing json gzipped in s3 rather than in a sqlite db 000
