A Personal Note Before Day 100 🗺️
I started this campaign more as a test than a plan, with no fixed expectations and no master roadmap, just one step at a time and a willingness to see what would form. Slowly, the posts began to sketch a longer story: years of trying to make maps that sit slightly outside familiar conventions, each one carrying a personal note alongside the influence of creators I have admired and peers I have learned from.
I chose open-source from the beginning because I valued independence more than expensive GIS subscriptions, and that decision gradually pushed me toward programming. Over time, the work shifted from software-driven cartography toward maps written directly in the browser, because interaction has always pulled at me, and the interface language of video games has fascinated me for years. 🎮
The next chapter is the one I want most: projects that genuinely help people, in my city and beyond it. Along the way, I want to keep one principle close. People still need to spend time face to face and keep the natural threads of human contact alive instead of letting them dissolve into purely virtual substitutes. Because of that, I do not see maps as a form of escape from the real world, but as portals, instruments, and sources of information meant to help people navigate their real lives more clearly.
Maybe that is also why I still value mountains, conversations, and shared experiences away from the screen more than ever. ⛰️
The campaign asked for more time and energy than I expected, especially while posting simultaneously across seven platforms every day, often at different hours. But it earned every day because it finally brought structure to my work and to the skills I had accumulated over the years. There were moments when I thought about stopping. I chose to continue, and I do not regret it.
To everyone who followed, supported, shared, or simply spent time with the work along the way, thank you sincerely. ❤️
And somehow, today became Day 100.
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ALT A group of women hikers resting in a green mountain meadow beneath dramatic cloudy skies and forest-covered peaks in Romania. The group is smiling and gathered together after a hike, surrounded by spring vegetation and alpine scenery, reflecting friendship, community, and shared outdoor experiences.