Creating UI delight: dynamically rotating mouse cursors
Felt is constantly searching for ways to enhance the user experience & create a sense of delight for our users. Take a look at what that means for the humble cursor.
How we make your data look great at every scale with Tippecanoe
Felt doesn’t require users to tell us anything about the data being uploaded – here are some tools we use to get the display right across different scales.
Upload Anything: how we revolutionized data upload
We launched Upload Anything to enable our users to bring any file format into Felt and see it magically "just work." Here’s why it’s revolutionary.
Narrowing in TypeScript with type predicates and discriminated unions
Discriminated unions are the natural fit for working with unions in TypeScript. Here’s why I advise them over inline checks and type predicates.
When “one size fits all” fails: PostGIS bounding boxes for maps
As a mapping company, we curate and visualize all sorts of data for our users.
Taking Hashrocket’s "Ultimate Elixir CI" to the next level
Continuous integration and deployment is the heartbeat of a software development team. That’s why we’ve invested in powerful tooling that goes way beyond the basics.
Tips for improving your Elixir configuration
As an Engineer at Felt and a core maintainer of ElixirLS, I wanted to share some of the hidden configuration improvements I’ve found in Elixir’s latest releases.
SQLAlchemy reflection and PostgreSQL for data schema flexibility
How Felt is using SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL for maximum data schema flexibility.
Tools for fast (and less furious) frontend development
You can think of a Felt map as a space which has certain Felt elements (drawings, pins, notes, data) that live inside it.
Computer graphics in the land of maps
Using my background in computer graphics, I enable our in-house cartographer to create beautiful maps, and to render them as beautifully–and as quickly–as possible.
What it takes to make a map
The internet is being re-written, first docs, then design and now maps. Felt is approaching the complexity of multiplayer mapping head on by building the culture and infrastructure necessary to iterate quickly.
Hot reloading: a faster way to develop modern apps
Hi, I’m Jason Axelson and I’m a software engineer at Felt. Felt is a highly interactive multi-player application built for making the best maps on the internet,
Bring your data, see it on the map
Connect a database or drop in a file and see your data live on a map in minutes.