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Kevin de Youngster

@kevindeyoungster.com

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I'm excited by long walks, cycling up mountains, MTBing down them, LEGO, thoughtful writing, and playing with geospatial data. [On a quest to walk all the roads] http://kevindeyoungster.com 📍 Vancouver, BC

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · Jun 22

Gogomi 1.5 is out! The version gogomites and I have been testing!

- Covers all of Metro Vancouver
- feels 1.5x snappier
- 7380 walks over 6600km processed!

Turn your city into an exploration game. Maps your walks, shows unexplored streets, tracks neighbourhood completion.

gogomi.app

screenshot of gogomi website: https://gogomi.app

screenshot of the wormery, a map view showing gogomites' walks (as coloured line traces) around metro vancouver. that's A LOT of walking!

hand holding phone with gogomi open. bushes in the backdrop

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 37m

save-for-later app that decomposes stuff you've saved but neglected for a long time

Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · Sep 4

app that shows how many km you've scrolled on your screens

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

Ghost turnip, Fintown, County Donegal, Ireland, c. 1900 (replica), National Museum of Ireland

Frightening face carved into a turnip to place a candle in

"In 1943 the National Museum of Ireland received a turnip lantern from a schoolteacher, Rois Ní Braonáin who was teaching near Fintown, Co. Donegal. She stated that it was the type that was always made in that locality around 1900. This plaster-cast model was created and painted by the museum artist, Eileen Barnes.

Candles were placed inside the turnips and they were used to frighten people on the night of 31 October. The pumpkin that is prevalent today is an American development of this Irish tradition." https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Top-things-to-see-in-the-Irish-Folklife-Collection/Artefact/Ghost-turnip/b202e8ea-0728-4b3d-b0f1-82660fe45ce9

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 8h

good

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Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter?

Most recent news about AI seems to involve staggering amounts of money. OpenAI and Nvidia sign a $100b data center contract. Meta offers researchers $100m salaries. VCs invested almost $200b in AI …

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 19h

friend and i walked kensington-cedar cottage. followed the reds on our gogomi and the gradients on the trees

Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 22h

re: 🥚

there're enough "big tech worker takes a break" articles online.

so instead, i distilled the vibes into 5 lines, and starting a 'secret' blog to document the quest, roleplaying as a dwarf

Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 1d

some personal news: i'm on a break!

updated kevindeyoungster.com with a statement (speech bubble), and my first attempt at a poem this year (hidden in the nascent undergrowth)

personal website screenshot before update

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Grave Abandoner @questabandoner.bsky.social · 3d

Sleepyheads are basically obsessed with nodding off

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 27d

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 3d

nice

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A Theoretical Analysis of Silksong's Geology

YouTube video by The Rockumentarist

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Nyx The Bat @nyxthebat.vtubers.social · 5d

"kill them with kindness" wrong. bat attack
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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 8d

okay!

Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 9d

stumbled upon Oskar's Townscaper back in 2020 while deep in the procgen rabbit hole. he was sharing devlog GIFs of his progress building it. was nice to see algos in art (wave function collapse + marching cubes)

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Konsoll 2021: Oskar Stålberg - The Story of Townscaper

YouTube video by Konsoll

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 9d

🤣 close!

When I first plotted my gpx traces, "Gogomi" popped in my head (it's Ga* for 'worm'). That it also sounds like 'go-go-me' (movement) is a bilingual pun

*Ghanaian coastal language

business goose🪿 @goose.art · 10d

yeah sure , i'll look up gogomi--- WHAT THE FU

Mongolian Death Worm
Legendary creature in the Gobi desert

Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 10d

We met up at Elysian Coffee! First time meeting a gogomite IRL and it was so satisfying hearing him share how he uses Gogomi ~every day.

Really cool seeing someone nerd out about something you made!

Him holding his phone with Gogomi open on main view: showing all the paths he's covered

Him holding his phone with Gogomi open on summary view: showing stats of coverage in Vancouver

Follow-up message: "I really like using the app and I hope you can find a lot of success with it. It was fun hearing you talk about it and your journey to develop it."

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 10d

Some people don't like my home screen folders / organization system.

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 11d

The writing in this post is superb.

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How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer

Tired of fumbling with the PureGym app for 47 seconds every morning, I reverse-engineered their API to build an Apple Wallet pass that gets me in with a quick wrist scan. Along the way, I discovered t...

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 11d

i eventually came around to apple photos: store everything on-device, hook up osxphotos + some code generator

so i can query like: “photos of houseplants at and in the morning”

github.com/RhetTbull/os...

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E = mily² @emily.news · 11d

faustian bargaining comes after faustian anger but before faustian depression

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Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 12d

'ozeba' is the kind of song i imagine goblins listen to when getting ready to terrorise the neighbouring village

Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 12d

played silksong better in handheld mode than on the tv. guess the lower latency/tighter controls really help stay locked-in during combat (almost done with act 2 now)

Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 12d

tasted are.na fame (20+ connections) when i bookmarked this:

twitter screenshot:

what blows my mind about everybody neglecting human experiences in favor of being on their phone 14 hours a day is that like 95% of you suck at being on the phone. can't post for shit, 100 unread wikipedia articles in your tabs, getting groomed on discord. you are not good at it

Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com · 12d

*[sips mocha]

north american beverage culture is fascinating. if i wanted this civilsation to collapse, i'd just make all coffee disappear

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 13d

Of course they did: blog.nataliethenerd.com/i-turned-the...

When I was building mine last night, the thought did flutter through my mind that this could fit a pi zero and a display to emulate, but @nataliethenerd.com went down the good path with a custom PCB. So cool.

Natalie the Nerd's blog

Sharing my thoughts and current projects.

blog.nataliethenerd.com

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Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 13d

100 things I've learned about hardware by building poetry camera

#1 - Hardware has gotten faster! Rapid aluminum tooling can take ~1 week and create thousands of units, if you're willing to sink in ~10-50k

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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