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
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...
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"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
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orchid mantis appreciation post
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
orchid mantis appreciation post
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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
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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
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Have you heard of the Transit Death Spiral? It's happening right now in Metro Vancouver. Nic Laporte explains it perfectly in this video in collaboration with Movement. Do you think we can flip this downward spiral into growth that serves the needs of our region?
The Slow Collapse of Transit (...and how we stop it)
BC Residents, contact your MLA! https://www.leg.bc.ca/contact-us/mla-contact-information
https://www.patreon.com/NicTheDoor Join Patreon for early access and extras.
https://movementyvr.ca/
https://www.translink.ca/
Public transit keeps our cities moving. When service declines, everyone feels
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Have you heard of the Transit Death Spiral? It's happening right now in Metro Vancouver. Nic Laporte explains it perfectly in this video in collaboration with Movement. Do you think we can flip this downward spiral into growth that serves the needs of our region?
Just published:
"It's Tuesday afternoon and I'm already worn out from meetings. Then an email pops up: hydro bill didn't go through, something something "payment method invalid". Sure. I reached for my jacket's pocket and…"
kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan/t...
"It's Tuesday afternoon and I'm already worn out from meetings. Then an email pops up: hydro bill didn't go through, something something "payment method invalid". Sure. I reached for my jacket's pocket and…"
kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan/t...
The Invisible Hand?
Where is it!?
kevindeyoungster.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Just published:
"It's Tuesday afternoon and I'm already worn out from meetings. Then an email pops up: hydro bill didn't go through, something something "payment method invalid". Sure. I reached for my jacket's pocket and…"
kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan/t...
"It's Tuesday afternoon and I'm already worn out from meetings. Then an email pops up: hydro bill didn't go through, something something "payment method invalid". Sure. I reached for my jacket's pocket and…"
kevindeyoungster.com/sauntervan/t...
enjoyed this talk. anything with Hanif Abdurraqib really
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
Hanif Abdurraqib at Stanford | On Art, Survival, and the Heart’s Work
YouTube video by Stanford Arts
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
enjoyed this talk. anything with Hanif Abdurraqib really
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
Joked a little too hard, now I'm giving a talk at a university about this project
Apparently this article has been making the rounds in the some africana/academic circles
Apparently this article has been making the rounds in the some africana/academic circles
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Joked a little too hard, now I'm giving a talk at a university about this project
Apparently this article has been making the rounds in the some africana/academic circles
Apparently this article has been making the rounds in the some africana/academic circles
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
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Spent the morning untangling morning glories, pulling out blackberry rhizomes, and planting thimbleberries near the Renfrew ravine
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Spent the morning untangling morning glories, pulling out blackberry rhizomes, and planting thimbleberries near the Renfrew ravine
First time walking New West's quayside. I could sit next to the koi all day. Also, what's on poplar island?
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
First time walking New West's quayside. I could sit next to the koi all day. Also, what's on poplar island?
migrating off google photos was a pain
glad i took the time to follow-up on the dead reddit thread. every month since, someone comments about it being helpful. sth sth it’s important to leave traces
www.reddit.com/r/googlephot...
glad i took the time to follow-up on the dead reddit thread. every month since, someone comments about it being helpful. sth sth it’s important to leave traces
www.reddit.com/r/googlephot...
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
migrating off google photos was a pain
glad i took the time to follow-up on the dead reddit thread. every month since, someone comments about it being helpful. sth sth it’s important to leave traces
www.reddit.com/r/googlephot...
glad i took the time to follow-up on the dead reddit thread. every month since, someone comments about it being helpful. sth sth it’s important to leave traces
www.reddit.com/r/googlephot...
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i wrote everything that i've been kind of nervous to write about @val.town: here's how things have been going the last three years, and read to the end for how we're hiring for two people macwright.com/2025/11/11/v...
Val Town 2023-2025 Retrospective
The whole story
macwright.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
i wrote everything that i've been kind of nervous to write about @val.town: here's how things have been going the last three years, and read to the end for how we're hiring for two people macwright.com/2025/11/11/v...
"Last night I confirmed that there was a daemon growing out of my left shoulder. A nebulous shade that unfurled slowly but surely. I have no doubt that this thing arrived--"
kevindeyoungster.com/writing/back...
kevindeyoungster.com/writing/back...
'Back, you daemon!' Here's what I wrote in 2025
kevindeyoungster.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"Last night I confirmed that there was a daemon growing out of my left shoulder. A nebulous shade that unfurled slowly but surely. I have no doubt that this thing arrived--"
kevindeyoungster.com/writing/back...
kevindeyoungster.com/writing/back...
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Another beautiful atlas saved from recycling. This one appears to be a guide for boating down a river in Belgium? Love the bridge illustrations.
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Another beautiful atlas saved from recycling. This one appears to be a guide for boating down a river in Belgium? Love the bridge illustrations.
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glad so many of you are sharing your beautiful aurora photos because I see nothing in my skies
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
glad so many of you are sharing your beautiful aurora photos because I see nothing in my skies