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flux.vision, tobias.raayoni-last.com and randogoth.com. They were one site until October 2026, serving four audiences from a single dated list, which is the only format that can hold unrelated things at once. flux.vision is recovered from the Wayback Machine, where it had sat since being deleted in 2021: 90 articles, closed and maintained rather than updated. tobias.raayoni-last.com is the professional record, 97 articles back to 1999. randogoth.com is the technical work, 41 articles across six areas, served as an ANSI bulletin board. History starts here deliberately. The development history, the 266-row inventory that records why each article went where it did, the Wayback pipelines, the pruned articles, the source archives and the full-size images are kept beside the repo rather than in it, so a clone is the web presence and not the argument that produced it. REFACTOR.md is gitignored for the same reason. See README.md for where that material lives, and keep it: the sort is not reproducible from these three directories alone. Each site documents itself in its own README, including the traps that cost time and look like nothing when you get them wrong.
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Title: Dopecarpet & Rugreefer Date: 2025-03-05 23:00 Category: PLACE Slug: dopecarpet Summary: Geospatial metadata API to package OpenStreetMap data into geohash-based tiles and a Dart library to efficiently fetch, parse, and cache that spatial information.
Working for Randonautica I had the idea to develop an API to allow requesting geographic information about coordinates, like whether they are in or near water, within a nature reserve, residential area, or in a forest, or any other geocoded metadata.
Based on publicly available OpenStreetMap data I develpped Dopecarpet, a toolset to generate 4 digit GeoHash tile sized Parquet/GeoJSON/CBOR files from OSM PBF files. It comes with a custom tag filter and a minimal GET API to download the data in different formats.
To retrieve data from the API I also built the Dart library Rugreefer. It converts coordinates into a geohash, fetches a gzipped GeoJSON file from the API, and extracts relevant spatial data such as polygons and lines. The library also supports caching with optional expiration to improve performance.