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"I’ve been working on upgrades to the NUKEMAP for several years now, but I actually would like to get them implemented this year. I figured that one way to both make this “invisible” work visible to the rest of the world would be to write about it on here, and that this would also, perhaps, encourage me to Get It Done."

"NUKEMAP as it looks in Chrome on a Mac in February 2026. Sorry, New York. Note the use of Protomaps and not Mapbox or Google Maps, both of which became prohibitively expensive."

"Over the past few years, I’ve done some major “behind the scenes” upgrades to NUKEMAP that are basically invisible unless you are paying very close attention. Some of these are basic bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements, but the more substantial relate to migrating a lot of the functionality of the site away from Amazon AWS — which is relatively expensive — and to Cloudflare. The site still does require AWS for its PHP and RDS (database) functions, as migrating those to Cloudflare’s Worker and database systems would both be a lot of work and not necessarily be cost-effective (Cloudflare and AWS RDS have very different pricing models, and for some things Cloudflare is better, and for others it is much worse), but I’ve managed to cut the monthly costs down considerably."

"Most importantly, the map UI is now run off of a self-hosted (Cloudflare hosted) Protomaps instance, which is much, much, much cheaper than Google Maps, Mapbox, whatever. If you are a developer or organization that uses maps and do not require them to be at-the-moment constantly up-to-date and are looking to shave a lot of cost off of your bottom line, check out Protomaps. It is a pain to set up the full “stack” of things you need for it to work (I will write up how I did it at some point, but 80% of the difficulty is just getting the style sheets migrated correctly to Protomaps’ format) but once you do it costs almost an insignificant amount compared to those other systems even with very high map usage. It’s not perfect, in part because it is reliant on OpenStreetMaps data for tagging (and sometimes someone will make a mistake that like, eliminates Pennsylvania, and that ends up in the “build”) and because I’ve made some tweaks so that it will render even on older (non-WebGL supporting) browsers that disallow me from using the latest versions of Protomaps data builds, but the cost savings are so significant that it makes up for it.1"

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NUKEMAP roadmap

New book: The Most Awful Responsibility

Manhattan Project fissile material inventories

Enriched uranium

Plutonium

Bringing it all together