Henry Wilkinson

Henry Wilkinson

@wilkinson.graphics

Designer who knows some things about web archives, OpenStreetMap enthusiast, occasional maker of music. Prev @webrecorder.net Currently @EQTY Lab

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Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

Come see the thing I've been working on! (also at side project night @ 1RG)

rpg.actor@rpg.actor

We're throwing a Halloween Party and you're invited! 👻 In collaboration with @hijinx.world we'll be dressing in our best rpg.actor costumes and joining the hangout in their new virtual venue for a LIVE event. 🥳 Come chill, and unlock exclusive items! 🎃 THURSDAY, OCT 29 - 8:00 PM EST 📅 RSVP Here!

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Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

Also I wasn’t joking about P2P, there’s no back end here at all so far. All client side interaction uses Trystero (trystero.dev) which has been super easy to set up. Very cool that in-browser P2P apps are now at the “just import this” and it works level. Proximity voice chat was a piece of cake!

trystero.devTrystero — Simple, serverless WebRTC for JavaScriptConnect browsers with Trystero, an open source WebRTC library. Send messages, files, audio, and video without deploying your own signaling server.
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Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

Okay, kind of having a lot of fun with this thing. I *think* I have a cool path toward level editing being 100% in Blender + a post processing script and a single json file (possibly lexicon) for global map properties. Maps and assets will be ATProto records + blobs!

Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

Where this should get really cool is that we can link between maps (which will be their own lexicon) via portals and create interconnected worlds?!

Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

"...thanks to the laws of unintended consequences, it also caused us to optimise for "pass" instead of "usable". It built an entire industry around scanning for failures, instead of testing with people." tetralogical.com/blog/2026/10...

tetralogical.comWCAG 3: a different future for accessibility - TetraLogicalDid you know that when given a minimum payment threshold, people pay off about 70% less from their credit card than they would have done without it? The minimum payment doesn't change the number of pe...
Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

In a world of terrible AI takes, I like this proposal. The biggest problem is still bad actors, boosters that vibe their way through it and claim that they've made miracles with no way to understand (or wilfully misrepresenting) if that's true, but I would enjoy more signals from honest actors too.

Benn Jordan@bennjordan.bsky.social

Vibe-coding isn't bad, the rampant lack of transparency is. I loosely proposed a formalized grading system. www.bennjordan.com/blog/we-shou...

bennjordan.comWe Should Standardize Vibe-Coding Ethics — Benn JordanAlmost anyone reading this probably has thought the following statement: “There’s so much cool software coming out that it’s hard to even keep up. Most of it is slop. ” I’ve covered this on my...
Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

This seems to be a reasonable parallel to the big "NO GEN AI" type badges that some folks put on their work. That signal seems to have roughly held up and at least I know what I'm getting! It's nice to have something along the same lines, but for coding agent users.

Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

Political meat-proxy astroturfing needs to be legislatively nuked out of existence if we want to have any semblance of a democracy. The use of this tech should be an immediate career ending scandal.

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com

The way the app works is this: -Supporters sign up and download the app -Soon, they begin receiving notifications, known in the app as "Digital Fighters Tasks" -The app auto-generates text for the supporter to post, and offers a reward in exchange for copying it on to social media

nationalobserver.comToronto mayoral candidate Bradford using Israeli app that feeds supporters AI-generated commentsThe Victory App, a campaign tool built by the Israeli company LogiVote, prompted users to participate in a mission to post AI-written comments supportive of Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford.
Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

This sucks super hard, but I’m sort of enjoying the through-line of the Canadian government telling Meta they must pay when other people link to news via their website and them pulling an uno reverse and making YOU pay THEM for the ability to link to things instead.

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Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

Wanting more Wikidata-backed projects in the world, I was somehow able to nerd-snipe my partner Liza into making one! She was able to turn her weird esoteric knowledge of this mid 90s philosopher collective into a well sourced computable relationship graph. Go check it out, it's cool, I promise!

Hijinx World@hijinx.world

The internet's most reliable collection of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit's history, concepts, and mythos — procedurally built from Wikidata! hijinx.world/interactive/... "A Factual Account of the CCRU", data-vis by @lizadesya.com , @wilkinson.graphics and Evgo Stillwell.

hijinx.worldA Factual Account of the CCRU ✦ Hijinx WorldThe internet's most reliable collection of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit's history, concepts, and mythos — procedurally built from Wikidata!

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Caræsten 🇵🇸
@cara.city

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

As somebody who's been on their forum from the beginning, everything Austin says in this thread rings true and seems pretty tough to deal with.

austin robey@austinrobey.xyz

if you want to start a platform co-op, nobody tells you: you will be held to the same consumer expectations as any venture-backed platform. functional, beautiful, well-resourced, every feature at launch, every email answered immediately. 1/

Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

I pretty much agree with all of his gripes here except for the first one, competition is sort of the nature of our market-driven economy and consumers won't cut you slack because of your governance model. IMO co-ops need to be hungrier for success than the VCs in order to win.

Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

As somebody who's been on their forum from the beginning, everything Austin says in this thread rings true and seems pretty tough to deal with.

austin robey@austinrobey.xyz

if you want to start a platform co-op, nobody tells you: you will be held to the same consumer expectations as any venture-backed platform. functional, beautiful, well-resourced, every feature at launch, every email answered immediately. 1/

Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

I pretty much agree with all of his gripes here except for the first one, competition is sort of the nature of our market-driven economy and consumers won't cut you slack because of your governance model. IMO co-ops need to be hungrier for success than the VCs in order to win.

Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

So they’re a weird mix between gambling and the shopping channel? You pay money to bid on trading cards and the like while some dude says “let’s go chat, come on, let’s get some bids” to a stream with about 12 viewers.

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Burrito Justice
@burritojustice.bsky.social

“In Yangzhou’s Geyuan 个园, a lovely traditional courtyard garden of rock and bamboo, you need to watch a video advertisement and scan your face to get toilet paper. Once only: the dispenser remembers who you are and won’t give you seconds”

Burrito Justice@burritojustice.bsky.social

“Aside from the ubiquitous cameras, it is not possible to move around a city on any form of transport or pay for anything without the apps, and they always know who and where you are”

chinafile.comApp Life in China“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovi...
Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics

Migration tools like this are incredibly good, migration tools to get off of Substack are even better

Offprint@offprint.app

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