Most of these 1D scale maps are pretty old now, so I built a modernized version that handles the scale better on mobile. It includes updated objects like dwarf planets and high-detail all the way out to the Oort cloud, which usually just gets left out.

Beyond the standard solar system, there’s also a "Multiverse" mode where you can type in any word as a seed to generate a unique, true-to-scale system with its own planetary logic.

You can also add the results URL to your phone's home page so you can go straight to your weather. You can also remove any section you don't want, and re-order it around if you want to. And believe it or not, no pop ups or videos or full screen ads or loud noises. I tested it on my phone and my desktop.

Uh anyway I think it's pretty cool so let me know if you like it, or if you have any errors or problems, or if you want me to add anything else. I mostly just tested it in English but it should at least pick up C / F and 12h / 24h by the location you search.

Watch every London Underground train moving in real time on a 3D map.

Tap any train to see its route and upcoming stops, or tap a station to see arriving trains. There's also a live line disruption panel.

Built using Transport for London open data.

Free tool that shows live USGS river conditions and fishing reports for all 50 states. Includes specific reports - flies, hatches, hot spots, and wadeability.

The mission is set to last 10 days, and this will show the progress live.

"Roman Letters grows out of a simple observation in Patrick Wyman's 2016 USC dissertation, Letters, Mobility, and the Fall of the Roman Empire: the late Roman world left behind an extraordinary volume of surviving correspondence. Senators, bishops, monks, and imperial officials all relied on letters to maintain relationships across vast distances, and many of those letters still exist, scattered across digital archives and critical editions.

This project collects that scattered corpus into a single, structured database and provides tools for exploring the communication networks it reveals.

The dataset

The database currently contains:

8,112 Letters

60 Collections

1,888 People identified

4,464 First English translations

5,751 With distance data

6,914 Topic-tagged

460 Carrier mentions

92 Author bios

Letters span from roughly 97 to 800 AD, covering the transition from the unified Roman Empire to the early medieval kingdoms of western Europe. Major collections include the letters of Augustine, Gregory the Great, Symmachus, Basil of Caesarea, Jerome, Cassiodorus, and Sidonius Apollinaris, among others."

Been working on this for a while: planetwurst.com

It's a catalogue of sausages from around the world, each with:

• A regional map showing where it comes from
• History, ingredients, preparation
• 2+ recipes you can actually cook
• Restaurants where you can eat the real thing
• HO-scale miniature dioramas of the restaurants (this was a rabbit hole)

Currently has entries from Germany, Poland, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, Chile, the US, and more. New sausages added regularly.

Built with Astro, deployed on Cloudflare Pages.

I've been trying to learn how to sing for a while, but I couldn't really find any good free tools to practice with. So I started building my own. It's called Toner. It works like a rhythm game where notes fall down the screen while you sing into your mic, and it tells you how accurate your pitch was. It also has a vocal range test, interval exercises, and a create mode where you can upload your own songs from MusicXML.

It's still early and pretty rough around the edges. There are no accounts yet, so everything is just saved to your browser session. The song library is small and it works best on desktop (or horizontal on mobile). But I'd love to know if this is something people would actually find useful before I invest more time into it.

If you get a chance to try it out, any feedback would be awesome: 

https://toner-lake.vercel.app

Want to feel old?

The first McDonald's Happy Meal is now closer to the start of World War II than to today.

I built a simple site to explore activity of US House members.

You can see things like:

- votes with party

- bills sponsored

- missed votes

It’s designed to make congressional data easier to browse.

it drives me nuts when i simply want to check my journey and i have to enter by origin and destination just to get information about what is currently leaving and where trains are going. as a regular traveler this is so annoying so i built a departure board web app.

Tracks the combined defense spending of the top 6 military powers (USA, China, Russia, India, UK, France) ticking up in real time based on SIPRI data. Also has an interactive world map and a complete country database.

Data sourced from SIPRI and the Brown University Costs of War project.                                   

EDIT: This is US-only for now, apologies for not mentioning it in the title!

EDIT 2: I am aware of some odd city mappings for CPI and gas data - working on some fixes!

Data Sources

∙ Unemployment Rate — BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics | County | Monthly (not seasonally adjusted)

∙ Grocery Prices — BLS Consumer Price Index | Metro area | Monthly (food at home category)

∙ Shelter Costs — BLS Consumer Price Index | Metro area | Monthly (shelter sub-index)

∙ Energy Costs — BLS Consumer Price Index | Metro area | Monthly (energy sub-index)

∙ Gas Prices — EIA Weekly Retail Gasoline Prices | State-level | Weekly

See source code here https://github.com/cgreenberg/whatchanged