Alastair Tse

@liquidx
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Design, Maps & Software // 🏂🇯🇵
Websitehttps://liquidx.net/
Instahttps://instagram.com/liquidx
LocationTokyo, Japan

We are resurrecting the Geo Tokyo meetup that has been on a 3.5 year hiatus. @reustle and I are inviting those who like geeking out on maps and geo data to come join us on Apr 1 at FabCafe Tokyo for a good fun chat.

https://luma.com/r4k3o638

Geo Tokyo #6 - Spring 2026 · Luma

Join us for our 6th Geo Tokyo event! After a three year hiatus, we're back. This is a casual meetup of mapping enthusiasts in Tokyo. If you like making maps,…

Another vibe coded thing that was easier to make than to search for. A qrcode generator where I can mess with the pixels and see if it scans.

https://aversion.one/of/qrcode

I dislocated my knee a month ago snowboarding, and so I've been channelling all my frustration and energy into building this big site about Japanese snowboards.
The world of Japanese snowboards is very fragmented and not so well documented, but also huge and fascinating. I'm learning a lot about the boards, but also the culture and people.

So here it is: a living archive of Japanese snowboards, those boards designed for riding that Japanese snow.

https://snowline.jp/en/gear/snowboard

As a fun experiment, while redesigning my website again this year, I wondered what would happen if I could navigate my website using terminal commands. Today, I got it working after a few attempts:

https://liquidx.net/posts/2026/terminal-nav-web

An incredible data vis project on one of my favorite topics - trains!

https://www.pentagram.com/work/a-data-love-letter-to-the-subway
‘A Data Love Letter to the Subway’

A data-driven animation for Fulton Center commissioned by MTA Arts & Design for its 40th anniversary.

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Back from my first snow trip for this season, filmed a few runs on my Insta360 only to discover the videos show up on the device, but are not visible on the SD card.

Reddit search shows many posts with similar issues but with no real solution. So I rolled up my digital sleeves ...

Very excited to go to the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto (actually Uji) on Monday! 🎮

They have some of the most highly convoluted ticketing system I've experienced for a while, but should be worth it!

https://museum.nintendo.com/exhibition/index.html#play

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Just finished Exit 8 for the first time after hours of trying. What an eerily accurate depiction of a Tokyo subway station from hell. Clean and immaculate and frustratingly disorientating.
I was watching a video and wanted to know what app the person for using. Took a screenshot, asked Claude and it worked.
You can call me AI astair.