Fog of World

TL;DR We’re developing an open-source travel visualization app called MemoLanes. It’s currently in small-scale testing, and I recently switched from Fog of World to MemoLanes during a trip to Australia and New Zealand. If you’re interested in joining the internal testing, feel free to email me(zed@zijun.dev)! Project Link：https://github.com/MemoLanes/MemoLanes As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been pretty addicted to an app called Fog of World, and during 2021 and 2022, I spent quite a bit of my spare time developing a third-party extension tool called Fog Machine. Through this process, I picked up some knowledge about this domain and started forming my own ideas. It might just due to being a programmer, but I often find myself thinking about how I would design things differently, how I would implement the feature. I roughly formed this idea around April 2023, and it took me about a month to go from trying to come up with a name to giving up on naming it altogether (There are three hard software engineering problems: 1. naming; 2. cache invalidation; 3. off-by-one errors). Then in May, on a work trip to London, I created a folder with the weird codename ProjectDV on the plane and started designing the data structure and choosing the tech stack. After a bit over a year working on this part time, I kicked off small-scale testing around August this year. ...

TLDR Fog Machine: https://fogmachine.8bits.io/ Source code: https://github.com/CaviarChen/fog-machine Nonsense background story Late last year, a friend and I published the Fog machine project: A 3rd party Fog of World data visualizer/editor. It got more popular than I expected and I became more addicted to Fog of World since then. So I want to build more things. I’ve talked to multiple people about what they want and it seems that the most common things are: ...

A couple of months after the previous episode: A data parser for [Fog of World], we finally released the first version of [Fog Machine], a web tool for visualizing and editing the data of Fog of World App. It is a joint work with @tavimori and this tool wouldn’t exist without the great help from him. To use [Fog Machine], visit: https://fogmachine.8bits.io/ The source code can be found here: https://github.com/CaviarChen/fog-machine Screenshots:

The source code can be found here: https://github.com/CaviarChen/Fog-of-World-Data-Parser I bought an app called Fog of World at the end of last year. I enjoy it a lot and dragged several friends into using the app. Actually, I knew the app and wanted the app when I was in high school. However, its price and the short battery life of mobile devices at that time stopped me. Now, I deeply regret that I didn’t get it earlier. There are so many places that I’ve visited before and there is no record. I am sure there will be some of the places I won’t go again and even forgot about being there. Also, I brought it during the pandemic, so I just cannot discover other countries for a while. Fortunately, China controls the local covid situation pretty nicely, I did do some traveling. ...