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I just create stuff for fun

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@TomBudnik Dekuji!

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@Hire_Jessica @pcshipp It depends on the project. I like to use forums where engineers are lurking around

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@yacineMTB Current Ai is not intelligence though. They are solely programing software

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@solopribuilds All careers which makes you verify things

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@Tech_girl Well I do not use Gemini. I use user feedback and Claude Fable

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@danellisona I would love to have a team of devs and designers. Also a team of accountants and lawyers as well. Maybe HR also

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@doja_dan I mean it is free: https://t.co/mRmRZ1MtLo

Good luck roasting it though

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I love castles and forts. I was born and grew up in Canada, and this map basically explains why I now live in Britain.
Just look at Canada on it.

https://t.co/EgypNiEOcP

The map is wonderful a night-time atlas of 2,500 or so of the world’s great castles, fortresses and palaces. It’s a celebration of the grand and famous, but I’ve always been more drawn to the obscure and modest ones. There’s something about small, practical fortifications that fires the imagination for me more than the grandest royal palaces. They often feel closer to real lives and real stories.

Take the Prince of Wales Fort on the western shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba. This massive 18th-century stone bastion (built mainly 1731–1771 by the Hudson’s Bay Company) is the northernmost fort in North America. It surrendered to the French in 1782 without a shot being fired and still stands as a haunting ruin in the subarctic.

It was built in the same broad era that British engineers, working with and for the Royal Navy’s imperial network, were active on distant fortifications like Jaffna Fort in Sri Lanka — a place that actually saw fierce combat as recently as the 1990s during the Sri Lankan Civil War. Actually, all the imperial powers were building the same sort of coastal forts which means they’re pretty much everywhere.

My daughter helped on an excavation of the Portuguese Fort at Cacheu in Guinea-Bissau. That one’s a compact riverside stronghold first established in the late 1500s and rebuilt in stone in the 1640s. It was a major hub in the transatlantic slave trade, and the archaeological layers reveal complex African, Portuguese, and colonial histories that are still being uncovered. Absolutely fascinating.

She found the clay head posted in the comments which is not a statuette but actually the bowl of a pipe. Interestingly they were able to track the origin of it through catalogs of historical manufacturers—somewhere in Europe, I forget exactly, but 18th century. I think it says something about globalisation in the larger scheme when you dig up bits of European cheap consumer goods in the mud of such distant places.

I’m also low-key obsessed with the fortified factory just off the shore at Tarfaya, Morocco. It’s a lonely coastal trading post tied to early European commerce and rivalry along the Saharan Atlantic. I often wonder about the people sent to man such forts, it must have been like a lunar outpost.

You’ll also find in Tarfaya the Antoine St Exupery museum of airmail. St Exupery was a legendary pilot in the early days of aviation and a key figure in the establishment of air transport. He was incredibly intrepid. Also the author of The Little Prince, amongst other books. He was killed in 1944 while on a reconnaissance flight over occupied Corsica.

And back home, there are only a handful of modest colonial-era forts left in Canada. As a kid I used to visit the blockhouse in Merrickville (south of Ottawa) all the time. Built in 1832–33 as one of four defensive blockhouses along the Rideau Canal, it’s a sturdy two-storey stone-and-timber structure designed to hold about fifty men in case of American invasion.

It never saw combat, later serving as a lockmaster’s home, church, and storage building. No one would call it impressive, but the pickings were slim and it was more than enough to feed my imagination for years. There’s a cool display at the Royal Engineers Museum in Chatham, focused a lot on Colonel By after whom Bytown was named until they changed the name when it was decided to make it the national capital.

That’s the quiet power of these smaller places to my mind. They make history feel personal and reachable. The big map is brilliant for dreaming big, but it’s the modest forts that keep the wonder alive.

If you’re into castles and forts, grand or humble, I highly recommend it. What’s your own favourite obscure or modest fort?

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@DavidBe31099196 Thank you for the review of Castlemap!

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@bitoko46 Thanks! I will slowly update the map, but the quality will be focused on more than quantity:)

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https://t.co/mRmRZ1MtLo The world railway map - 1211 train routes - 120 countries ≈ 311,700 km of line

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@Lyracutevibes Innsbruck

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@owenthcarey Enjoying the sun

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@alpaysh Inside the Flightmussy Globe;)

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@npew Technical expertise is even more important now due to more a dangerous internet. I would love to be better at that.

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@simongerman600 Interesting! I also notice that older Norwegian kitchens had green/blue retro colors while modern kitchens are now just white or black.

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https://t.co/BX5OQ39BFi is pretty useful if you plan to swim in Europe, but I am not going to focus on this project due to time.

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Thread 01.08.26:

https://t.co/A9vVUt0wHH had finally a bit calmer week, so instead of adding more locations I had more time to verify, fix bugs and translate several languages (Not 100% finalized). I am pretty happy about Castlemap now. Last week was crazy though.

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https://t.co/TfsOFHbDD7 I really struggle to find a direction with this project, because it needs to have many points on the map. At the same time the points needs to be all unique. I am not sure how to proceed here.