iamcal.com Since May 2000

MapToPoster is a fun little project that takes open street map data and creates beautiful posters of different cities/locations. More geo projects like this, please.

Another year, another 121 books completed, or about 1 every 3 days. My 2025 reading list has a very brief review/summary of each one.

Highlights were The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball and Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin.

While I strive not to be, I can be pretty inconsistent in my reading pace. More books take 1 day to read than any other length of time, with 72% in 3 days or less and 93% within a week. The longest took a full 23 days (because I was on a vacation where I didn't read much).

I read much less on vacation than when I'm at home, and I read the most when I get really dug into a series I love - October was 13 books from Mick Herron's Slough House.

With ~20 years of my reading history tracked, my biggest take away is that there are still so many great books to find :)

Level Devil a great little 'frustrating platformer'. I love this genre, mostly to watch, as playing is pretty frustrating [via Myles]

I love this project - a rack-mounted keyboard device that lets you input any Unicode codepoint (character) using toggle switches, complete with a visual preview. Works for Emoji too and looks beautiful.