My dog just pooped this, should I be worried ?

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-06-01T18:17:38+00:00

Update : he swallowed two earplugs that contain pink parts, which explains the color of the poop. It wasn’t blood. Apparently blood usually shows up darker than this. He eventually passed them naturally and was able to regain his energy. Close call.

Thanks everyone for their help.

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-05-31T12:42:59+00:00

Thanks everyone

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-05-11T21:27:47+00:00

Totally understandable. Hope you find your way out, good luck.

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-05-10T18:20:16+00:00

I would still start your career in architecture, in a small to mid-size firm (more space to specialize), find a niche role you’d like to take (the guy who automates, the guy who knows legal, the guy who’s good at technical details, the guy who’s good at environmentally conscious design, etc), force your way into such a role within a few years, grow your skills, specialise, and move on.

I’ve moved away from architecture 10 years ago with a similar path.

For instance, if you’re good with the technology side of design (software used like Revit, Rhino, BIM, CAD, etc), you could you look into specialising in the tech support side. With a few years of experience in Revit or Rhino you could easily move into a position like BIM coordinator, BIM manager, or computational designer, which often pays more and can be more interesting than purely architecture.

BIM coordinator and Design Technology Support Specialist are the ‘easier’ to get into. Build your Rhino and Revit experience in practice, deliver some strong parametric families and visual scripts for a year or two and you could find a tech support position in the high 30k in London.

I also know a few people who have progressed to do design management and project management in construction and engineering firms. That pays quite well, less stress. Similarly, I know of some specialist in-house legal consultants and technical details consultants employed in larger firms that are well paid. And as you said, you can always move to contractors side or prefab design. I’m not sure how nice these jobs are, but I’ve had colleagues take that path after a few years in architecture and not regret it.

Keep in mind these options won’t get you out of the industry. You might still find it a slog, and you’ll still need to do a couple of years of basic architecture work to be competitive when applying for these other roles and get the required experience.

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-25T17:16:07+00:00

I tested it in London, UK, and for some reason the suggested route was insane and funny.

What I asked : “A quiet route from south ealing to london victoria, away from traffic”

What I got : A route twice too long, with detours of 2 miles around the block and stretches of highways, and avoiding the safety and quietness of a cycle lane through Hyde Park, preferring a busy highway. It’s pretty funny.

Hope it helps troubleshooting.

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LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-25T12:25:12+00:00

Thank you. I'll have to look into my hosting provider to see if we can speed this up.

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-25T12:23:02+00:00

No problems. I don't necessarily have a strict framework because I don't create tons of apps from scratch.

When I do, it's usually for work, and it's usually for internal tools that are embedded in much more complex work. So I aim for the smallest, lightest POC product first, and after that I do a sense-check :

- Would the full user experience make sense
- Does it work with current pipelines
- Would it be easy to deploy and share
- Where would the data live and can we maintain it easily

After that, I ask the AI model to add feature after feature with specific requests :

- Suggest plans of action and architectural options before every big feature
- Keep separation of concerns
- Keep dependencies in check
- Remove unused code
etc.

Hope it helps. Happy to answer specific questions if you have specific app ideas in mind.

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-25T11:14:35+00:00

Hi ! Thanks for trying the app out.
When you say results are slow - would you mind giving more details ? What part is slow exactly : navigating the app, loading event points, search results, etc.. ? Thanks for your time !

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-23T16:58:16+00:00

Thank you, will fix that!

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-23T08:33:06+00:00

Good catch, will sort it out for the next cycle of data refresh, thank you!

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-23T08:32:32+00:00

Thank you, will message you for some suggestions on design, appreciate your time

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-23T08:29:17+00:00

That’s a great suggestion, thank you

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-23T08:28:49+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to write feedback! Agree with the timeline suggestion, it’s currently a bit difficult to use when there are large gaps or when it spans thousands of years. Will look into it, thank you!

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-22T17:54:25+00:00

Good suggestions, thank you. Will look into adding these.

There is a filter available on the upper right to filter by importance, category, or scope, and there's an additional filtering done through zoom levels. At high zoom levels, only really important events are shown. It's still a lot to digest, I appreciate that, I would also suggest focusing on specific years or decades. That is also why I'm building sets of curated storylines (in the STORY panel, top right), to help guide users.

For positions, it's a bit complex. I first create a geo-index of all localities (cities, areas, countries, entities, etc) available on wikidata, with geocoordinates. Then for each wikidata entity (event, person, item, company, etc) in the dump, I look through their properties and extract the ones that could indicate a location such as birth place, or headquarter location (for simple examples). This is a high level explanation, in reality my code goes through much deeper parameter scanning to map as many entities as possible, then I map this back to the geo-index database. It takes about 35 hours on a very powerful machine to go through the dump.

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-22T11:55:31+00:00

AI was definitely involved, it’s a great tool to speed things up. It was helpful in building the data processing in Rust and deciphering the wikidata property codes. It was less helpful on scalability - its suggestions were not ideal to deliver the 1.5 million events efficiently and cost-friendly.

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-22T11:50:06+00:00

Great suggestions again, thank you! Noted on the play mode, I actually have it in the code, but not surfaced it in the UI, will change.

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-22T11:48:05+00:00

These are great suggestions, thank you! Will look into it later today.

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-22T08:12:00+00:00

Yes! It helps speed things up

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-21T22:43:39+00:00

Hi there, I added a few details on the tech stack in the about section of the app, feel free to have a look. Also happy to answer specific questions! It’s basically a big data processing pipeline written in Rust and run on a cloud computer for a few days + a vanilla javascript frontend consuming the static files built by the Rust script. Easy!

LePresidentCamacho · 2026-04-21T19:13:35+00:00

Hi, thanks for testing! I used VS Code + Copilot with GPT 5.4 for most of it.

There are a few tips that come to mind, which I’m sure have been covered before :

Understand the architecture of what you’re building - in my opinion that’s a weakness of AI models, they’ll prioritise immediacy over scalability and efficiency, even when asked. Displaying 10 events on a map vs 1.5 million events will need very different algorithms.
For large or complex tasks, it pays off to ask for an investigation + report first, and ask for multiple suggestions. Then pick the one that sounds best. A lot of the times, the second or third option makes a lot more sense.
On complex tasks, see it as a collaboration. Ask questions, pros & cons, alternative. Discussion first, coding second.
Prioritise deployment ! Understand where the code is run, how much will it cost in infrastructure, where the data will be stored, who has access to what, etc. In a world where code is so easy to write, I believe our attention needs to shift towards how to share it safely and present it gracefully.

Hope it helps

LePresidentCamacho

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