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Will @simons.dev · 24/09/2026

One of my goals with this project was to be able to reference specific pages of a magazine so we could see things in context

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Will @simons.dev · 24/09/2026

got some stickers made :) will have them for sale on the site soon

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Will @simons.dev · 09/09/2026

I 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

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Will @simons.dev · 02/09/2026

RIP I found a sequence of Micah in Thrasher December 99 skateboard.fyi/magazines/th...

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Will @simons.dev · 02/09/2026

Working on og:images today for the site. Built a custom tool to take 'pictures' of the spreads. Here's the first Poweredge Jan 1991 skateboard.fyi/magazines/po...

skateboard.fyi

Poweredge — January 1991 — SK8.FYI

Poweredge, January 1991. 41 pages scanned and readable in full.

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Will @simons.dev · 01/09/2026

thanks, took a while to get it all together!

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Will @simons.dev · 01/09/2026

Poweredge scans are up on the site skateboard.fyi/magazines/po...

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Will @simons.dev · 28/08/2026

Listening to Tommy Guerrero while I build out the annotations layer for skateboard.fyi

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Tommy Guerrero Best Of | 最高の

YouTube video by partedoparque

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Will @simons.dev · 12/08/2026

The 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"

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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...

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Will @simons.dev · 01/07/2026

POWEREDGE 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.

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Will @simons.dev · 29/06/2026

POWEREDGE February 1991 - Issue 31 Rad Chris Miller feature

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Will @simons.dev · 23/06/2026

POWEREDGE July 1980 Brian Boyd cover, Remy Stratton, Tommy Guerrero, and a 17 year old Peter Hewitt

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Will @simons.dev · 22/06/2026

POWEREDGE 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

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Will @simons.dev · 22/06/2026

diyskateparks.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.

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Will @simons.dev · 17/06/2026

POWEREDGE May 1990 Alex Schroeder leaves as managing editor. $17.70 for a yearly subscription. Thrasher today is $36.95.

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Will @simons.dev · 13/06/2026

POWEREDGE March 1990 Vancouver and Berline features

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Will @simons.dev · 12/06/2026

POWEREDGE February 1990 "I used to be disgusted... but now I'm just STOKED" #skateboarding

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Will @simons.dev · 11/06/2026

POWEREDGE January 1990 ANARCHY ZONE #skateboarding

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Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

if anyone you know is a skateboarder you've likely heard that Marc Johnson, a legend, died yesterday at age 49 youtu.be/J48y_Z2fuic?...

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Marc Johnson - Modus Operandi (Transworld 2000)

YouTube video by PristineParts

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Will @simons.dev · 22/05/2026

with a sick Mark Gonzales photo by Kosick

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Will @simons.dev · 22/05/2026

POWEREDGE 1989 Photo Annual

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Will @simons.dev · 22/05/2026

Transworld January 1985

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Will @simons.dev · 13/05/2026

I'm working on a shoestring budget these days. 2 days a week at a local butcher shop, and the rest for development and other money making schemes. Started working on my own personal finance app to get better insight in to my spending, saving, investments, and side-project spend.

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Will @simons.dev · 13/05/2026

Now the work of processing scans: crop, adjust, collate. Then ingest in to the sk8.fyi pipeline/knowledgbase

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Will @simons.dev · 05/05/2026

Phew! 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

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Will @simons.dev · 05/04/2026

first look: Rob Welsh Transworld January 1998

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Will @simons.dev · 05/04/2026

Working 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.

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Will @simons.dev · 15/03/2026

I have a linux PC working as a web server and hardware bridge, controlling two Canon EOS M50 cameras. My M2 Air is running the webapp the pc serves, and allows me to use it as the control center for the scanner and OBS streaming.

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Will @simons.dev · 15/03/2026

Started streaming the scanning efforts. Will do a write up on the software/hardware architecture that I settled on, I'm pretty happy with it.

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Will @simons.dev · 26/02/2026

Redid the site skateboard.fyi

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Will @simons.dev · 24/02/2026

Poweredge January 1989

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Will @simons.dev · 23/02/2026

Poweredge November 1988

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Will @simons.dev · 20/02/2026

made a severance mode for corner crop adjustments

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Will @simons.dev · 17/02/2026

sick Natas Kaupas spread in Poweredge May 1988

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Will @simons.dev · 15/02/2026

Poweredge January 1988

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Will @simons.dev · 15/02/2026

Rad @jgrantbrittain.bsky.social interview in June 1991 Poweredge

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Will @simons.dev · 15/02/2026

First magazine processed. Poweredge June 1991 Here's a contact sheet

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Will @simons.dev · 14/02/2026

yo unrelated, where'd you get this scan?

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Will @simons.dev · 14/02/2026

the 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.

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Will @simons.dev · 11/02/2026

Setting up a livestreaming studio to scan the complete Transworld Skateboarding over the next few months.

Several crates full of skateboard magazines

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Will @simons.dev · 31/01/2026

there's some good names in skateboarding.. came upon Gerd Rieger in POWEREDGE April 1990

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Will @simons.dev · 29/01/2026

working 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

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Will @simons.dev · 22/01/2026

scanning some old POWEREDGE mags

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Will @simons.dev · 29/12/2025

gathering wires and packing up to head down south ~~~ hoping/planning/pushing to digitize some skate mags in the new year!

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Will @simons.dev · 04/12/2025

skate goals before I'm 40: 1. Switch flips 2. Ollie Wallenberg

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