Kevin de Youngster
@kevindeyoungster.com
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
[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
- 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
baked some cake to celebrate a new milestone :)
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
baked some cake to celebrate a new milestone :)
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
making home-cooked apps for you and your friends means you can get them asking stuff like this:
December 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
making home-cooked apps for you and your friends means you can get them asking stuff like this:
Reposted by Kevin de Youngster
Reposted by Kevin de Youngster
I’m a public transit nerd (greetings from a train in Melbourne Australia!) so I love stuff like this ☺️
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I’m a public transit nerd (greetings from a train in Melbourne Australia!) so I love stuff like this ☺️
In light of everyone wrapping up, if you use transit in Metro Vancouver, try out Compass Card Wrapped!
kevindeyoungster.com/compass-card-wrapped/
kevindeyoungster.com/compass-card-wrapped/
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
In light of everyone wrapping up, if you use transit in Metro Vancouver, try out Compass Card Wrapped!
kevindeyoungster.com/compass-card-wrapped/
kevindeyoungster.com/compass-card-wrapped/
Someone completed every street in Seattle by printing 200+ maps. I’d already spent too much time automating this exact problem
assorted devlog (apr 27, 2025):
kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan/d...
assorted devlog (apr 27, 2025):
kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan/d...
Devlog update: since launching Gogomi!
It's really cool seeing more people use Gogomi. And this time I mean strangers
who found it on the App Store, not just friends or people who follow my socials.
kevindeyoungster.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Someone completed every street in Seattle by printing 200+ maps. I’d already spent too much time automating this exact problem
assorted devlog (apr 27, 2025):
kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan/d...
assorted devlog (apr 27, 2025):
kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan/d...
Reposted by Kevin de Youngster
There's a software engineer in Hong Kong who makes incredibly detailed scientific diagrams for wikipedia, like this clickable metro-style map of metabolic pathways!!!
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
There's a software engineer in Hong Kong who makes incredibly detailed scientific diagrams for wikipedia, like this clickable metro-style map of metabolic pathways!!!
Reposted by Kevin de Youngster
Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish!
You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
July 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish!
You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
a surprise late birthday gift. we assembled right there at dinner.
coincidentally fit with the decor at chanco tortilleria on commercial
coincidentally fit with the decor at chanco tortilleria on commercial
December 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
a surprise late birthday gift. we assembled right there at dinner.
coincidentally fit with the decor at chanco tortilleria on commercial
coincidentally fit with the decor at chanco tortilleria on commercial
visited a friend in coquitlam last weekend. sun came out and i said "drop everything! we’re going outside!"
December 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
visited a friend in coquitlam last weekend. sun came out and i said "drop everything! we’re going outside!"
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Not going to read any fiction that will "rewire my brain". They put that wire there for a reason. To stop me becoming too powerful.
December 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Not going to read any fiction that will "rewire my brain". They put that wire there for a reason. To stop me becoming too powerful.
stumbled upon apple photos’ “copy subject” feature, made a web page of all the lego sets i built in recent years!
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
stumbled upon apple photos’ “copy subject” feature, made a web page of all the lego sets i built in recent years!
nice!
was just staring at a hummingbird on my neighbour’s balcony for 5+ mins
www.audubon.org/magazine/mee...
was just staring at a hummingbird on my neighbour’s balcony for 5+ mins
www.audubon.org/magazine/mee...
Meet the Woman on a Mission to Photograph Every Species of Hummingbird in the World
In less than a decade amateur photographer and Hummingbird Spot founder Carole Turek has photographed more than 250 hummingbird species, including one that was long considered extinct.
www.audubon.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
nice!
was just staring at a hummingbird on my neighbour’s balcony for 5+ mins
www.audubon.org/magazine/mee...
was just staring at a hummingbird on my neighbour’s balcony for 5+ mins
www.audubon.org/magazine/mee...
caught a rare sighting of the 'black swan of brentwood'. seen him 3 times in 2 months now. he's never walking, only dancing like a swan in his little kippah
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
caught a rare sighting of the 'black swan of brentwood'. seen him 3 times in 2 months now. he's never walking, only dancing like a swan in his little kippah
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Sharing a tool I made, Linetime, and my workflow for bulk geotagging photos for iNaturalist.
Using iNaturalist with non-geotagged photos: approximate bulk geotagging
While hiking, I like to take photos of nature things to figure out later and post to iNaturalist. But most non-phone cameras don’t add geotags (geographic location info) to images, and uploading these...
exclav.es
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Sharing a tool I made, Linetime, and my workflow for bulk geotagging photos for iNaturalist.
Just published:
“I was feeling bad about all this until I remembered one of my sacred texts, a twitter thread by GMTK years ago. I re-read it and realised how odd I was being”
kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan/n...
“I was feeling bad about all this until I remembered one of my sacred texts, a twitter thread by GMTK years ago. I re-read it and realised how odd I was being”
kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan/n...
You're not a good judge of your work
You'd think that after publishing my first app, I'd be proud, happy or <linkedin voice> humbled. But mostly, I feel…meh.
kevindeyoungster.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Just published:
“I was feeling bad about all this until I remembered one of my sacred texts, a twitter thread by GMTK years ago. I re-read it and realised how odd I was being”
kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan/n...
“I was feeling bad about all this until I remembered one of my sacred texts, a twitter thread by GMTK years ago. I re-read it and realised how odd I was being”
kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan/n...
Reposted by Kevin de Youngster
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
Reposted by Kevin de Youngster
orchid mantis appreciation post
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
orchid mantis appreciation post
Reposted by Kevin de Youngster
this is our generation’s black lung, once again proving that we yearn for the mines
the amount of cocoa powder i inhale from the tops of fancy coffees… i’ll never learn
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
this is our generation’s black lung, once again proving that we yearn for the mines
Reposted by Kevin de Youngster
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
would like to get into snowboarding
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
would like to get into snowboarding
surprised this became my writing soundtrack, was saving it for a future afrospin class
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRpK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRpK...
Drumetic Boyz - Bokahohle
YouTube video by Drumetic Boyz
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
surprised this became my writing soundtrack, was saving it for a future afrospin class
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRpK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRpK...
Would never have predicted that I’d be this captivated by a sports anime about literal horse girls racing
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Would never have predicted that I’d be this captivated by a sports anime about literal horse girls racing