[{"content":"Just a quick post to let everyone who reads this know that I\u0026rsquo;ve taken back control of my website! The version control is no longer being done on github nor is github building the site for me. Now that that hurdle has been jumped, I hope that I will write more articles in the future, for which I have great plans, so stay tuned, all 0 of you ;).\n","date":"2026-07-10T23:45:00+02:00","image":"/p/taking-control-of-my-website-back/cover.jpg","permalink":"/p/taking-control-of-my-website-back/","title":"Taking control of my website back!"},{"content":"Release 7 of Maptools has just been published.\nAdded setting for custom minimum population. Changed default minimum population from 1k to 5k. Improved the changelog. Added link to Guess the City Discord server. Show random city location on map. Updated location data. Fixed dark mode. ","date":"2024-11-07T09:45:00+02:00","image":"/p/maptools-release-7/cover.png","permalink":"/p/maptools-release-7/","title":"Maptools Release 7"},{"content":"A little over a month since I started this website with Scriptorium, I have moved it in order to use Hugo and Stack.\nScriptorium Like I said, my site used to be made with a tool called Scriptorium, which is a script/program that turns a set of Markdown files into a nice static website that is cheap and easy to host. Scriptorium is shiny and new and so when I came across it, I decided to give it a try. It was made in a \u0026ldquo;new\u0026rdquo; programming language called Gleam which I was very excited about and decided to jump on board with trying out this project. However, it is very new and development on it seems to have come to a halt. So I decided to start looking for a new and more mature Static Site Generator (SSG) to make my site with.\nHugo That is when I came across Hugo, which is another SSG program, but much more mature and with a lot more features, which I was very excited to try out. After a couple of hours, I had settles on a template that I liked and started the process of converting my old site to this new format, which was a bit of a chore because Scriptorium doesn\u0026rsquo;t seem to adhere to the same format for the post metadata. Luckily my site was still relatively new and thus I only had 5 files to convert.\nStack Stack is the theme I have settled on. It gives of a very modern and modular feeling with nice cards as a layout. It also has a very beautiful dark mode which I fell in love with. It also comes with a nice Github template which I could easily adjust to fit my needs. After that, I was off to the races!\n","date":"2024-05-30T23:50:43+02:00","image":"/p/new-website-with-hugo-and-stack/Bronsbergen_Sunset.jpg","permalink":"/p/new-website-with-hugo-and-stack/","title":"New website with Hugo and Stack"},{"content":"Release 5 of Maptools has just been published.\nNo longer pan to circle if doing recap. Fixed recap circles for 20, 10, and 5 km radius circles. Copy to clipboard button for random city. Added the equator as a line that can be turned off. Added colors to the guess list based on if it\u0026rsquo;s a hit or a miss. Updated location data. Added filters for continents for random city generation. ","date":"2024-05-17T14:10:36+02:00","image":"/p/maptools-release-5/cover.jpg","permalink":"/p/maptools-release-5/","title":"Maptools Release 5"},{"content":"Release 4 of Maptools has just been published. It mainly features a lot of small changes and of course an update to the locations data.\nReplaced menu button text with icons. Added the following data to countries: population, number of locations with 5k+ pop. Added ability to disable the circles on the map. Added a button to copy the location names to the clipboard. Added a settings panel. Added settings to change the colors of the circles. Added special icon for guess markers on the map. Toggles for miss circles with 20 and 10 km guesses. Updated locations data ","date":"2024-05-12T14:10:27+02:00","image":"/p/maptools-release-4/cover.jpg","permalink":"/p/maptools-release-4/","title":"Maptools Release 4"},{"content":"I have just released release 3.1 of my Guess the City tool: Maptools. The main changes are that you can now get a random city to use with the set-city command and of course I have updated the locations data once again.\nSo, behind the scenes a couple of things have changed that are quite important: I am preparing to add a few more features for which the tab buttons have been added, but of more immediate import to the players I have added 2 more map layers: first of all my favorite the Atlas tile set from Thunderforest and the CanvasLight layer from Bing Maps. I didn\u0026rsquo;t have those available in the past because of rate limits, but I have decided that either all players or no players should have access to them, so I added them anyway. (Only I used to have access to them in the past).\nYou might also notice that the font has changed. I have choosen to go with the Geist font by Vercel because I like the way it looks, but I might change that in the future. You can expect some more changes in the looks department as the app matures.\n","date":"2024-05-03T21:10:00+02:00","image":"/p/maptools-release-3.1/cover.jpg","permalink":"/p/maptools-release-3.1/","title":"Maptools Release 3.1"},{"content":"So, I have spent a couple of days making a tool called Maptools for a game that I play on Discord called Guess the City. As the name of the game suggests, the goal is to guess the city an image is taken in with as few guesses as possible. I am making a few small tools that display information on top of some maps I display using Leafletjs.\nOne of the main components of the game is that you have limited information. However, you do get 1 point of information with each guess: if you are in the correct country. You also get to know if you are within 100km, 50km, or 20km of the correct city. This distance information is what I originally made Maptools for: I wanted a way to display this information as a series of circles on a map to be able to triangulate the correct city. There do exist a couple of tools that let you do this, however, they all have their shortcomings: some have a tiny map on their page, some don\u0026rsquo;t have the correct database of cities, etc. So I combined a good large map with the correct cities and made my tool.\nHowever, a series of other features quickly came to mind to enhance Maptools further. Thus far, I have implemented displaying all the possible cities as a layer on the map, some help for when setting the new city for when you win, a bulk input feature, and more features planned. I haven\u0026rsquo;t had this much fun developing something in years and think I\u0026rsquo;m not done with it for some time.\nYou can find Maptools on my github page: Maptools. Please know that it can take a while to load as it downloads a 75MB+ file containing all the cities in the world in order to provide a snappy response when using the tool.\n","date":"2024-04-23T18:45:00+02:00","image":"/p/maptools/cover.jpg","permalink":"/p/maptools/","title":"Maptools"},{"content":"So, a blog. And one made with a fancy new language that I haven\u0026rsquo;t used before. We\u0026rsquo;ll see where this will lead. What do I plan to share on this blog you might ask? Well, anything I feel like. Perhaps I\u0026rsquo;ll share some of my hobbies. Maybe I\u0026rsquo;ll share some stories. I might even share some funny pictures or try to educate some people on some things. We\u0026rsquo;ll all just have to wait and see.\nYou thought there\u0026rsquo;d me more to this post, didn\u0026rsquo;t you. Well, have this little extra sentence or two as a treat.\n","date":"2024-04-22T23:45:00+02:00","image":"/p/hello-world/cover.jpg","permalink":"/p/hello-world/","title":"Hello, World!"}]