Michael Bishop
@michaelbishop
civic minded technologist who likes to build things on the web. enjoys practicing Gyotaku. used to have people line up for his cooking. I operate @tampamonitor.com Tampa, FL he/him @miklb on Twitter/GitHub
First test print of my digital map using a middle of the road household inkjet printer. Will definitely seek out a professional printer for a larger version on better stock.
Wanted to visualize what the post office calls Tampa vs what is actually within the city. 6 zip codes north-west of city limits are Tampa mailing addresses but completely out of city.
The state's congressional map fills in Tampa Bay and doesn't do a good job of reflecting the coast lines. When you look at it just as land mass, you really see how gerrymandered Tampa is.
Claude built me a tool to carve districts out of Hillsborough County to start visualizing what a 9 member commission by district (no at large) would look like. very similar to districtr.org (they don't allow to add new districts). Had most of the map tools & data already.
Becoming intrigued by the FB algo. I keep it pretty locked down so they mostly have old content & current interactions (plus age). There’s a guy who’s been posting photos from 85/86 at a couple of Tampa punk shows I dig so now I’m getting old skate videos from same era. Makes me want to break it out
my partner snapped a great photo of the Selenicereus grandiflorus, "Queen of the Night" cactus blooming this week.
Needed a break from baseball and budgets so revisited this project a little last night. Think I've got the rivers/creeks dialed in.
Had a talk with Gemini this morning. At least it's honest. "It smashed them together into a confident lie because that is what the "SEO slop" ecosystem trained it to do."
Not sure what your day was like but probably wasn’t as good as mine just watching the tide turn.
anyway, yeah, sure special election but just leaving this here maps.tampamonitor.com/elections/20...
Facebook just showed me a post for a lawn & pest control company at the "Taste of Trinity" event and I have questions.
I think for your own mental health you should be locked out of Bluesky for this kind of activity
lol City of Tampa PD want to buy a robot dog. like the backup docs are titled "unmanned_robot_dog" Contract is for one "Spot"
I’m “I worked in an Apple Store when they still had cool t-shirts” old. It’s aged well.
Unfortunately the flatness of the Tampa Bay area doesn't lend itself to the cool contour maps I see but played around with a library today. Tossed in some bathymetry for the bay.