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Henry Wilkinson

@wilkinson.graphics
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Designer who knows some things about web archives, OpenStreetMap enthusiast, occasional maker of music. Prev @webrecorder.net Currently @EQTY Lab

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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 4h
The point of these stock tracks is to fit in and be licensed by anyone, as a result nobody is forming connections with the artists and they're almost definitively replaceable. ...Which is a shame of course for all the professional musicians who are employed by stock production houses.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 4h
The moderate version of this take is that stock music websites are dead, not streaming services. I don't think that the consumer side of music is over, far from it, but I can see "track to go in the background of a training video" or "background music for YouTube video" type markets drying up.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 16h
"I'm pulling the plug on this whole operation" I say as I turn off my rice cooker and prepare for a nice meal
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 17h
I think so!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 23h
@jamespmcleod.ca
A blocky blob of graffiti removal paint on a concrete wall, somewhat suspiciously resembling a Canada goose
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 29/09/2026
I think the fact that I get these references means it is time to log off for the day
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 29/09/2026
Trying out some light hill shading integration with tiles from @mapterhorn.com. Looks pretty good? It's served as a whole separate tile layer so I might not include it RN as I slowly get ready to release a version of this style to the world, but neat to know that this is possible and pretty easy!
3d map visualisation of High Park in Toronto, elevation is visible with shaded hills
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 28/09/2026
Somehow, yes!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 28/09/2026
The rationalists are far from the first death cult, but they might be the last one!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 23/09/2026
I want grungier! Dirtier! Give me musty UIs, ones that smell like cigarettes!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 23/09/2026
...But these processes are made up! They CAN be changed! And for some reason, this is the "bridge too far" that our left leaning politicians seem to be unwilling to touch.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 23/09/2026
In general I think it's easier to stop doing things than to start doing nice things in Toronto. There seems to be a large amount of bureaucracy in the way of good outcomes but it's generally easy to cancel services / initiatives. This structure of our municipal government seems to favour the right.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 23/09/2026
FWIW I'm all for demanding more from elected officials and I agree with all of the above points. Council has also been pretty aligned with the mayor this term, even Bradford has a 74% alignment.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 22/09/2026
He has a lot more power than the Mayor of Toronto who mostly sets agenda items & coordinates soft power by working with council. …And also they can veto things now maybe but Chow doesn’t because she has principles that the next mayor definitely won’t have.
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Jayde Iris Callejas @ Home @jayde.callejas.xyz · 22/09/2026
"Intern at Epic Games" job listing *Looks inside* "Requirements: Ongoing or recently completed PhD" What the fuck are we even doing, dude
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 21/09/2026
Political meat-proxy astroturfing needs to be legislatively nuked out of existence if we want to have any semblance of a democracy. The use of this tech should be an immediate career ending scandal.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 21/09/2026
This sucks super hard, but I’m sort of enjoying the through-line of the Canadian government telling Meta they must pay when other people link to news via their website and them pulling an uno reverse and making YOU pay THEM for the ability to link to things instead.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 20/09/2026
Aspirationally I’d like to bring it back with some better content & more rigour but haven’t due to lack of signal that it’s interesting, so good to know! :)
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 20/09/2026
I made this as my final design project in university, it’s a little rough but some of it still holds up! wilkinson.graphics/projects/nod...
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Designing Node-based Interfaces
An introductory guide to the elements of node-based UIs
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 20/09/2026
Wanting more Wikidata-backed projects in the world, I was somehow able to nerd-snipe my partner Liza into making one! She was able to turn her weird esoteric knowledge of this mid 90s philosopher collective into a well sourced computable relationship graph. Go check it out, it's cool, I promise!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 17/09/2026
Reminder that Dax has his Bluesky mirroring his X account. You don't have to touch grass, you're in the clear.
Screenshot of Dax's post on X reading: "seeing more and more people on here who desperately need to touch grass"
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 17/09/2026
You should! Good game!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 17/09/2026
Some of them are straight up just better ways to preview files in Explorer! Like, build that into Explorer maybe?? Why is this a first party extension?! You’re Microsoft!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 17/09/2026
Ever played World of Goo? :)
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 15/09/2026
I usually default to making things for the commons, but I hear you, no attribution for nice things you come up with sucks sometimes. Either way, nice work.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 15/09/2026
Any available details on the algorithm used? Detecting good colours from images is hard and this looks really great!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 15/09/2026
New Apple Maps Gaussian splat(?) trees look pretty incredible. Real cool mix of techniques, excited to see it rolled out more broadly.
Screenshot of Apple Maps looking at Church St in San Francisco.  The trees have pretty good transparency and look very detailed.Screenshot of Apple Maps looking at Shaw Street in Toronto.  The trees are classic photogrammetry leaf polygon blob shapes that warp into the geometry around them and look kinda bad.
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...
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The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 12/09/2026
I pretty much agree with all of his gripes here except for the first one, competition is sort of the nature of our market-driven economy and consumers won't cut you slack because of your governance model. IMO co-ops need to be hungrier for success than the VCs in order to win.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 12/09/2026
Of course in posting this I go from sympathiser to critic and once again add to the voices Austin mentions as being unhelpful. The cycle begins anew! 🙃
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 12/09/2026
As somebody who's been on their forum from the beginning, everything Austin says in this thread rings true and seems pretty tough to deal with.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 08/09/2026
I've finally gotten around to natural=wood (tree cover)! Unlike every other OSM renderer that does 3D trees, I've taken the groundbreaking step of not rendering them on top of roads, paths, and rivers! Oh, and also pedestrian paths :)
3D map render of High Park's maple leaf garden in Toronto.  Naturally wooded area is darker than the rest of the park colour and has trees scattered inside it, but there is a buffer zone around roads, paths, and rivers so they don't intersect in an ugly way!The buffer zone around roads and rivers is clearly seen in this shot as well2D map render of a far zoomed out look at how cities and lakes render now that tree cover is represented.  There is lots of large tree cover area visible!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 08/09/2026
Excited to see if you actually called it or if it just ends up being movie magic :)
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 07/09/2026
Oh, also here's the link: variety.com/2026/film/re...
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‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Nathan Fielder’s Documentary About Elizabeth Holmes Is a Shameless, Fascinating, Reality-TV-Eats-Its-Tail Look at Entitled Duplicity
It's a reality-TV-as-hangout-movie portrait of the Theranos fraudster, which is Fielder's way to ask: What makes someone like Elizabeth Holmes tick?
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 07/09/2026
Not to spoil too much of the film, but the Variety review might give some answers to these questions. They didn't give it all away obviously, but fair warning there are some mild spoilers!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 06/09/2026
It’s a good one!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 04/09/2026
Yeah, I’ve always found the asymmetrical nature of their notability / coverage to be sus
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 04/09/2026
A total user base of 37,000 isn’t exactly a thriving social network itself, and as much a grift as W social seems to be, isn’t that the point of ATProto?
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 04/09/2026
Are these stats out of line with Bluesky’s PDS? This seems like the 1% rule holds true! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
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1% rule - Wikipedia
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 03/09/2026
So they’re a weird mix between gambling and the shopping channel? You pay money to bid on trading cards and the like while some dude says “let’s go chat, come on, let’s get some bids” to a stream with about 12 viewers.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 01/09/2026
This is kind of a fun companion piece to @jamespmcleod.ca's opinion piece in The Star today. Unlike the paper however, I can go into the incredibly exciting technical details about how to fix this problem ;) www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Google changing Lake Ontario to Lake America isn’t just frustrating. It points to a deeper problem for Mark Carney
Canada’s digital infrastructure is too tied to companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 01/09/2026
New from me! Has Google changed the name of Lake Ontario on your website? Here's how you can fix it for good! wilkinson.graphics/blog/2026-09...
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Lake America: The Case for Self-Hosting Your Maps
Its easier than ever, I promise!
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Alex Griendling @alexgriendling.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Unknown_Installer
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 01/09/2026
Protomaps is such cool software, even the debug views look nice.
The Toronto waterfront, islands, downtown, and Lake Ontario rendered in Protomaps' debug style.  The colours are pleasant to the eye — not too garish and they all work well together.
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 31/08/2026
Ebay has livestreams?!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 31/08/2026
There's never been a better time to self-host map tiles with @protomaps.com!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 30/08/2026
Pretty sure it supports both Android Auto and Carplay so give it a shot!
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 30/08/2026
Now that I can get behind! What did you replace?
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Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics · 30/08/2026
I’m not saying these services are wonderful, I’m saying these business units are too important to Google to cancel on a whim. They’ll do that to stuff that doesn’t measure up against Maps, Gmail, and YouTube — if anything, their success is what causes their services to die!
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