Hi and welcome to my blog. I intend to use this space mainly to write about projects, but there may be some longer essays that appear as well. I have one project up now, Twitter Map, which takes the latest geocoded tweets for a given search query and plots them on an Albers projects of the US.
There are some additional things I plan to do with the geospatial Twitter mapping in the near future, including adding a brush element to provide contextual zooming for a certain range of dates, similar to what Mike Bostock has done in one of his examples. We’ll see how soon this get done though as I’m also doing some experimentation with bitmap drawing using canvas.
As for this blog, it’s hosted on S3 and generated using Jekyll, making it an entirely static site. There’s a lot of stuff on the Web about why to use Jekyll, but here’s a quick recap of my top four reasons:
A few people have also asked me about the theme used for this blog. I did some work to adapt the Twitter theme provided with Jekyll bootstrap to get what I was looking for. I plan on tweaking it a bit more before making it fully available for download, but you’re welcome to grab and reuse the css in the meantime.
The issue with creating a publicly available version of this theme quickly stems from the fact the Twitter Bootstrap theme comes with so much CSS the average blog will never need. As a result, creating a new theme will either involve paring what I have currently down (a lot) or starting over with a new skeleton.
That’s about it but feel free to contact me via twitter with any questions!