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William Edmisten
Personal blog · wcedmisten.fyi/post · on HN as wcedmistenprogrammingweb
William Edmisten's personal blog at wcedmisten.fyi covers programming and web. Since 2022, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Evaluating Mechanical Keyboard Delivery Estimates with Python Web Scraping”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on keyboard shortcuts with userscripts, hospital accessibility maps, and dashcam data for OpenStreetMap. Comments only cite or point to its posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
William Edmisten's personal developer blog.
Most-linked posts?
- Evaluating Mechanical Keyboard Delivery Estimates with Python Web Scraping3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-13
- A copy of a copy of a copy: FDA medical device clearances2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-10
- Mapping Hospital Accessibility with OpenStreetMap2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-04
- Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-21
- Adding keyboard shortcuts to a 24 year-old government website with userscripts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-19
What Hacker News says?
I really enjoy using OSM for my projects! It can be a bit daunting to figure out how to use the data because there are so many different tools in the ecosystem. I wrote this article recently to help anyone looking to get started querying OSM: https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/how-to-query-osm/
Comment linking /post/how-to-query-osm/
on “OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20”Submitted Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap as a story · 363 points
HN discussionVery cool! I recently made a game kind of like AI "pictionary" where the user has to guess the "artist", subject, and description of a piece of art generated by stable diffusion: https://wcedmisten.fyi/project/paintingGuesser/ I tried to make something more general, but stable diffusion is fairly inconsistent in how well the output matches the semantics of the input.
Comment linking /project/paintingGuesser/
on “How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists”Submitted Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap as a story · 115 points
HN discussionHey ayocado, I have some experience with self-managed/self-hosted base maps. There are some modern tools that make the setup pretty easy (e.g. Protomaps, MapLibre) and you can still use a minimalist style similar to the CARTO one you have now. If you're interested in switching over, feel free to shoot me an email and I can try to help! Here are some demos [1][2] I've made without using any third-party map services.…
Comment linking /project/north-america-hospital-distance/
on “Show HN: Aldi Price Map”Submitted Adding keyboard shortcuts to a 24 year-old government website with userscripts as a story · 105 points
HN discussionVery cool! I recently created a similar project where you can upload an image to be converted into low-poly art! https://wcedmisten.fyi/project/lowPoly/
Comment linking /project/lowPoly/
on “Trianglify.io – Low Poly Pattern Generator”Submitted A copy of a copy of a copy: FDA medical device clearances as a story · 59 points
HN discussionIt was a limitation of the web form the author mentioned[1]: > The device and company names are not standardized, and may have abbreviations, acronyms, or plain old typos. The website's search functionality does not provide fuzzy string matching, so finding a device often takes some trial and error. [1]: https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/keyboard-shortcuts-userscripts/#... .
Comment linking /post/keyboard-shortcuts-userscripts/
on “Adding keyboard shortcuts to a 24 year-old government website with userscripts”Submitted Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI recently did a writeup [1] on the 510(k) FDA clearance process (which cleared this device for market). Basically this device was cleared through a DAG of other devices that were "substantially equivalent". I made a website to visualize these relationships, and any recalls that occurred in the parent devices. If anyone is curious about this particular device, see here [2] [1] https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/medical-dev…
Comment linking /post/medical-device-analysis/
on “FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users”Submitted Show HN: Hospital Territory Map of Virginia as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI just set up my own blog last week that's hosted on a $5/mo digitalocean droplet and uses cloudflare as a CDN and to provide SSL support. It's definitely more complex than raw HTML purists would prefer. I'm using NextJS with static site generation to generate static HTML from my React code. I'm also using MDX to automatically compile my articles, which are written in Markdown but I can embed React components in the…
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on “Ask HN: Where do you post your writing?”Submitted Adding Keyboard Shortcuts to a 24 Year Old Government Website with Userscripts as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNot OP, but I started up a project running Postgres, a Python backend (with FastAPI), and a NextJS frontend on the cheapest DigitalOcean droplet. Hosting+domain came to $7.68/mo I can't say it's had very much production load testing, but using the site myself it seems to work fine. https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/stateful-webapp-on-7-68-budget/
Comment linking /post/stateful-webapp-on-7-68-budget/
on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”Submitted Find Missing Speed Limits in OpenStreetMap from Dashcam Footage as a story · 4 points
HN discussionalso: https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/visualizing-hospital-accessibili... (cartogram by population might be interesting?)
Comment linking /post/visualizing-hospital-accessibility/
on “Show HN: Hospital Territory Map of Virginia”Submitted Measuring Walkability with OpenStreetMap and Isochrone Maps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTesla cars with their dashcam turned on collect enormous amounts of data. They have 4-6 cameras writing continuously to a USB flash drive. I wonder why we can't get folks to drive around and collect it, then use AI/automation to fill in great swaths of information automagically. EDIT: some people do similar things: - https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/dashcam-to-openstreetmap/ EDIT2: and maybe it goes the other way: - http…
Comment linking /post/dashcam-to-openstreetmap/
on “StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time”Submitted Mapping Hospital Accessibility with OpenStreetMap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://wcedmisten.fyi I like writing about my own projects that usually involve web scraping, OpenStreetMap, or visualizing interesting datasets. I've been at it for about a year, mostly to gain motivation to actually finish my projects. To that end it's been quite successful, and it's a great opportunity to practice writing.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Evaluating Mechanical Keyboard Delivery Estimates with Python Web Scraping as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making a Stateful Webapp on a $7.68 per Month Budget as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Fill in the plaques for these paintings made by Stable Diffusion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Multiverse Art Curator – small browser game made with stable diffusion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evaluating Mechanical Keyboard Delivery Estimates with Python Web Scraping as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evaluating Mechanical Keyboard Delivery Estimates with Python Web Scraping as a story · 1 points
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