Tom MacWright
Tom MacWright
Tom MacWright
Hi, I’m Tom. Right now I’m building Val Town, a tool for joyful programming, and working on Placemark, a tool for creating maps.
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Back in May, I wrote about a custom porteur bag that I sewed for use on my bike. That bag served me well on two trips - a solo ride up to Brewster and back, and my semi-yearly ride on the Empire State Trail, from Poughkeepsie to Brooklyn...
I’ve been thinking the new Meta Ray-Ban augmented reality glasses. Not because they failed onstage, which they absolutely did. Or that shortly after they received rave reviews from Victoria Song at The Verge and MKBHD, two of the most...
I've been thinking the new Meta Ray-Ban augmented reality glasses. Not because they failed onstage, which they absolutely did. Or that shortly after they received rave reviews from Victoria Song at The Verge and MKBHD, two of the most...
I missed last month's Recently because I was traveling. I'll be pretty busy this weekend too, so I'll publish this now: a solid double-length post to make up for it. Listening It's been a really good time for music: both discovering new...
I missed last month’s Recently because I was traveling. I’ll be pretty busy this weekend too, so I’ll publish this now: a solid double-length post to make up for it. Listening It’s been a really good time for music: both discovering new...
I guess I’ll cover the context first so that we can move on to the good stuff. Man, everything is going terribly. It’s hard to overstate how bad things are for America right now. We’re just doing the thing: we’ve elected fascists and...
epanet-js is a new web application that combines modern web maps with the industry-standard EPANET hydraulic simulation algorithm. It’s for people planning and updating water utility systems: connecting pipes and pressures and figuring...
A little late on this one, but I got around to it! Reading I got stuck on two books: books that I want to enjoy but can’t get any momentum on. So my reading “stats” are suffering and this is a light year for books so far. But I switched...
I just finished my first fully custom sewing project: a porteur bag for bike trips. This is a bag designed to fit on a front rack, in my case a rack called Jack The Bike Rack. On multi-day trips, I want to bring a change of clothes, and...
Google published Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System in 2019. It describes a system for authorization – enforcing who can do what – which maxes out both flexibility and scalability. Google has lots of different...
I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts as a “listening” item, because the theme song, “Baby Love Child” by Pizzicato Five, is also spectacular. Guitar Moves is a good series of...