Jim Pick
@jimpick.com
This is a very Canadian office space
October 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is a very Canadian office space
I made hex.camp "communities" for Victoria (vichex.ca) and Vancouver (vanhex.ca) ... but I didn't have anything for the rest of Vancouver Island or the gulf islands, so I recently set up islandhex.ca ... no content there yet, but now I can create websites geographically rooted in that region.
August 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I made hex.camp "communities" for Victoria (vichex.ca) and Vancouver (vanhex.ca) ... but I didn't have anything for the rest of Vancouver Island or the gulf islands, so I recently set up islandhex.ca ... no content there yet, but now I can create websites geographically rooted in that region.
And New York City 6kqqokeanwaa.americas.peerhex.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
And New York City 6kqqokeanwaa.americas.peerhex.org
Slowly I'm expanding the Hex.Camp coverage area - working on North and South America now. I'm testing using some web archives of Wikipedia for various cities. Here's Mexico City: 6smvxbcanwaa.americas.peerhex.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Slowly I'm expanding the Hex.Camp coverage area - working on North and South America now. I'm testing using some web archives of Wikipedia for various cities. Here's Mexico City: 6smvxbcanwaa.americas.peerhex.org
I accepted the fake cert and it shows this
August 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I accepted the fake cert and it shows this
First step towards global coverage for Hex.Camp ... I took all the H3 base cells and split them between "americas", "emea" and "asia". github.com/hexcamp/hexc...
July 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
First step towards global coverage for Hex.Camp ... I took all the H3 base cells and split them between "americas", "emea" and "asia". github.com/hexcamp/hexc...
IPFS Cluster can generate a Graphviz image showing how it's wired together... good, it looks like what I was expecting
July 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
IPFS Cluster can generate a Graphviz image showing how it's wired together... good, it looks like what I was expecting
Pinned my old Filecoin deal traffic visualizations into my IPFS cluster for archival purposes. Still frustrating trying to coax IPFS into finding the data on the network, even though it's there. observablehq.com/@jimpick/vid...
July 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Pinned my old Filecoin deal traffic visualizations into my IPFS cluster for archival purposes. Still frustrating trying to coax IPFS into finding the data on the network, even though it's there. observablehq.com/@jimpick/vid...
I tried using @graze.social to drop my Victoria News feed into an iframe on my VicHex.ca welcome site. Works pretty slick considering how little effort I put into it. 6kgrvlbslccq.vichex.ca/news/
July 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I tried using @graze.social to drop my Victoria News feed into an iframe on my VicHex.ca welcome site. Works pretty slick considering how little effort I put into it. 6kgrvlbslccq.vichex.ca/news/
Looks like it is possible to publish a static snapshot of a Grafana dashboard via IPFS to a Hex.Camp hexagon-based website! Here's what it looks like: 6kgvlnw3nw3a.seahex.org/dashboard/sn...
July 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Looks like it is possible to publish a static snapshot of a Grafana dashboard via IPFS to a Hex.Camp hexagon-based website! Here's what it looks like: 6kgvlnw3nw3a.seahex.org/dashboard/sn...
Didn’t get any feedback yet on the blog post … so the dog won and I took him to the park. Lots of squirrels here.
July 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Didn’t get any feedback yet on the blog post … so the dog won and I took him to the park. Lots of squirrels here.
I started a new blog for Hex.Camp development updates! The first post is about how I made a custom search engine using Common Crawl web archives and the Stract open source web search engine. 6kgrunw3nwza.vichex.ca/posts/2025-0...
July 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I started a new blog for Hex.Camp development updates! The first post is about how I made a custom search engine using Common Crawl web archives and the Stract open source web search engine. 6kgrunw3nwza.vichex.ca/posts/2025-0...
My dog was mad at me for using the computer too much, so I took him to see bunnies
July 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
My dog was mad at me for using the computer too much, so I took him to see bunnies
For all the WARC files in my experiment here, this is how much disk space it takes for the indexes... 6kgruqaeaaaa.vichex.ca/community-as...
July 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
For all the WARC files in my experiment here, this is how much disk space it takes for the indexes... 6kgruqaeaaaa.vichex.ca/community-as...
Still experimenting with using Stract as a tiny search engine ... I loaded up all my WARC files for the Victoria/Saanich community associations, and the results are really, really good! I would actually use this. It's not the barebones experience I was expecting. I like the autosuggest feature.
July 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Still experimenting with using Stract as a tiny search engine ... I loaded up all my WARC files for the Victoria/Saanich community associations, and the results are really, really good! I would actually use this. It's not the barebones experience I was expecting. I like the autosuggest feature.
The AWS spot instance I had in eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) has been "capacity-not-available" for more than 24 hours. I'll think I'll expand my fleet by adding another spot instance somewhere in Europe. Good practice, I've got terraform working, but it's not nearly automated enough.
June 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The AWS spot instance I had in eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) has been "capacity-not-available" for more than 24 hours. I'll think I'll expand my fleet by adding another spot instance somewhere in Europe. Good practice, I've got terraform working, but it's not nearly automated enough.
Because each website name is actually a hexagon on the map, I can make a clickable map showing all the archives I made. 6kgruaaeaaaa.vichex.ca
June 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Because each website name is actually a hexagon on the map, I can make a clickable map showing all the archives I made. 6kgruaaeaaaa.vichex.ca
I'm going to be using a lot of maps on hex.camp ... I updated my demo that shows photos around Victoria use the vector tiles from OpenStreetMap 2kgrv5ga2i.vichex.ca
June 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I'm going to be using a lot of maps on hex.camp ... I updated my demo that shows photos around Victoria use the vector tiles from OpenStreetMap 2kgrv5ga2i.vichex.ca
Here's another option ... still a smaller hexagon, but it covers more area. Both are a descendant of the large hexagon. I think I'll go with this one for starters, and expand the area later.
June 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Here's another option ... still a smaller hexagon, but it covers more area. Both are a descendant of the large hexagon. I think I'll go with this one for starters, and expand the area later.
Vancouver is challenging ... it's split between bigger H3 hexagons, but there's a smaller one that covers downtown quite nicely. I'm going to create some welcome websites / landing pages ... it would be easier if they are all in one hexagon (until I have more automation done).
June 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Vancouver is challenging ... it's split between bigger H3 hexagons, but there's a smaller one that covers downtown quite nicely. I'm going to create some welcome websites / landing pages ... it would be easier if they are all in one hexagon (until I have more automation done).
I'm still the only person who's going to be able to operate this thing for a while...
June 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I'm still the only person who's going to be able to operate this thing for a while...