Spoonbill (2016—2023) · Applied Cartography

I would be lying to you if I told you I remember exactly what was going on when I came up with the idea for Spoonbill. I know I was still in what I would call my "year in the wilderness" — in a not-so-great relationship, in a not-so-great job, trying to compensate for both by moonlighting on a bunch of projects and drinking too many Manhattans. I do not mean this to sound dramatic, but working sixteen hour days is not good for you, and much of the artifacts of those years — even good ones, like Spoonbill — are slightly hard to trace back to their origin. I remember this: at some point I stumbled upon a site entitled "Bio is Changed", which did exactly what you might expect: it was a big vertical feed of people whose bio had changed on Twitter. Most notably, I stumbled upon it from someone complaining that it was "going away" — the creators no longer wished to maintain it, and it would be slowly going the way of many other bitrot platforms. Bioischanged.com was not exactly a well-design

I would be lying to you if I told you I remember exactly what was going on when I came up with the idea for Spoonbill. I know I was still in what I would call my "year in the wilderness" — in a not-so-great relationship, in a not-so-great job, trying to compensate for both by moonlighting on a bunch of projects and drinking too many Manhattans. I do not mean this to sound dramatic, but working sixteen hour days is not good for you, and much of the artifacts of those years — even good ones, like Spoonbill — are slightly hard to trace back to their origin. I remember this: at some point I stumbl