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137 from 28 Jan 2011 to 8 Oct 2026
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monthly (6 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 6

  1. Asymmetric Monstrosity: Home Edition
  2. GenAI for the Static Cartographer
  3. A Few Minor Niceties
  4. On Sin
  5. Urban Relativity
  6. Financial Transparency: Print Sales Edition

2025 6

  1. A Sketch of Isle Royale
  2. Planetfall
  3. Map of the Month: An Experiment
  4. 2025 AFC Freelancer Survey
  5. A Usefully Useless Projection
  6. Going Live

2024 10

  1. Journey’s End
  2. The Dream Lives
  3. Kickstarter 3: The Return
  4. A Free eBook of Terrain Lines
  5. A New Take on an Old Style
  6. 2024 Freelance Rate Survey Results
  7. Automated Hachuring in QGIS
  8. My Decade with Blender
  9. Take the 2024 Freelance Mapper Survey
  10. Another Atlas of Minor Projects

2023 8

  1. On the Practice of Wobbling
  2. Challenging the Idea of a Bad Map
  3. The Projection Collection Returns
  4. Getting Local: A Map Disassembly
  5. Independent Study: A Reflection
  6. Leopard Map Disassembly
  7. An Educational Experiment
  8. Conventional Cartographic Wisdom that I have Failed to Grasp

2022 13

  1. Projection Connections: A Very Nerdy Poster
  2. The Unnecessary Peril of the Fuller Projection
  3. A New, Unrelated Blog
  4. Thoughts on Practical Cartographic Education
  5. 2022 Freelancer Survey Results
  6. Projection Cards: Now a Reality
  7. Projection Cards
  8. Simple Oblique Views in Blender
  9. Financial Transparency: 2021 Edition
  10. 2022 Freelance Survey
  11. A Generalization Ramble
  12. Towards Less Blender-y Relief
  13. Annual Report: 2021

2021 10

  1. Landforms of Michigan: A Mini-Tour
  2. Dividing up the Continents
  3. A Call for Maps from the Heart
  4. On Edges
  5. Blurring Backgrounds to Improve Text Legibility
  6. Trying a Kickstarter
  7. Financial Transparency: 2020 Edition
  8. Critique with Empathy
  9. A Few Thoughts on Critique
  10. Annual Report: 2020

2020 18

  1. An Atlas of Minor Projects
  2. A Holiday Shopping List
  3. The Quest for the Blue Moon
  4. Musings on Approximate Labels
  5. The Pieces of Maps Behind Me
  6. Back to the Rivers
  7. Regrets
  8. Lessons Learned: How to do Map Stuff
  9. Odds and Ends, Part 2
  10. An Atlas of North American Rivers
  11. 2020 Cartographic Freelancer Survey Results
  12. Returning to my Roots
  13. How to do Map Stuff: A Live Community Sharing Event
  14. Financial Transparency: 2019 Edition
  15. Freelance Survey 2.0
  16. Maps in the Kitchen
  17. Annual Report: 2019
  18. Something of Myself

2019 8

  1. Cyanotype World Tour
  2. Revisiting the Colors of Mars
  3. Monochrome Mapping Results
  4. Monochrome Mapping Competition
  5. Upcoming Live Events
  6. A Live Experiment in Disassembling a Map
  7. Financial Transparency: 2018 Edition
  8. What I did in 2018: An Annual Report

2018 9

  1. Typewriter Cartography
  2. Smart Type Halos in Photoshop and Illustrator
  3. Outside Readings
  4. On Airline Mapping
  5. Cartographic Freelancer Survey Results
  6. Another Survey!
  7. Cartographers’ Preferred Typefaces
  8. An Informal Survey on Typefaces
  9. An Uncomfortable Request

2017 8

  1. Renaming Michigan
  2. A Collection of Round Islands
  3. Creating Shaded Relief in Blender
  4. The Colors of Mars
  5. A Cartographer’s Story
  6. Financial Transparency
  7. An Arrangement of Islands
  8. The Power of Appearances

2016 7

  1. A #PractiCarto Archive
  2. Even Fancier Type Knockouts in Illustrator
  3. Metropotamia
  4. Terrain in Photoshop: Layer by Layer
  5. A Career Built on Side Projects
  6. Advertising the Physicality of Old Maps
  7. Naming the Golden Minutes

2015 9

  1. A Matter of Perspective
  2. On Faith
  3. The Most Important Thing
  4. Flowing Bicycles
  5. Design is Human
  6. Type Knockouts in Illustrator
  7. Natural Modernism
  8. Penrose Binning
  9. The Immanent Textbook

2014 4

  1. Adding Shaded Relief in Photoshop
  2. Tricks from the Historical Atlas of Canada
  3. Atlas of Design 2014
  4. Blender Tutorial

2013 2

  1. Blending my Way to Relief
  2. Is Cartography Dead?

2012 6

  1. Atlas of Design
  2. Linework Like Typefaces
  3. Against Neatlines
  4. Odds and Ends
  5. Two NACIS Projects
  6. Lake City Lake

2011 13

  1. Opening the Vaults
  2. On Generalization Blending for Shaded Relief
  3. On Projection Videos
  4. A Crosspost
  5. On Tweet Maps
  6. On The Ways of the Framers
  7. On Human Cartography
  8. Remembering LineDrive
  9. On Salvation
  10. On Salutary Obfuscation
  11. Store Launch
  12. On Conformality
  13. On River Maps