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Rob Hawkes

@robhawkes

Rob thrives on solving problems through code. He's a Digital Tinkerer, former Technical Evangelist at Mozilla, author of Foundation HTML5 Canvas, and a Brit.

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I’ve missed designing slides

Found my twin while in Poland for

Fav photo from the talk and I gave at #FrontTrends… just after we let everyone in on a secret

Watching being interviewed about .

Recently started walking London instead of taking the tube. Much nicer views!

The new(?) ‘which tab is playing audio’ feature in Chrome is so fucking useful!

If you’re excited about the datavis in SimCity 5 then you’ll love the project I’m working on

Solved a key performance issue in by batching buildings into grid cells. Huge improvement at zoom now!

This is likely going to be the answer to all my pains. No, it’s not a sudden urge to create patchwork.

A road topology network I made for the major roads in central London. The things you can do with one of these!

It’s basically this (1st results from our data-vis experiments). It’s hard not to reveal the whole thing!

Here’s a sneaky peak at the data visualisation progress. Remember to sign up for early access http://rawk.es/YrXvmh

Soon. Soon. Soon! Did you see the latest update with the river and park detail?

Huge progress with yesterday – lots of details added! Sign up for early access at http://rawk.es/YrXvmh

What’s the technique called to draw dots within another shape, like this? My Google-fu is failing me.

Had a stab at a different technique for road paths in . Far from perfect but it’s looking promising.

New screen from our daylight & sky-box testing for . Sign up for early access! http://rawk.es/YrXvmh

Early screenshot of (the SimCity-esque project):

See shapes in clouds? sees animals in Tweetmap! http://rawk.es/YfApAi

I did, thanks to & . I now need to fix the FPS (due to post-processing, I think).