I asked him. I was wrong.

https://twitter.com/BCiechanowski/status/1522067904522428417

You will not catch me writing 9000 lines of code to make a blog post. Extremely impressive stuff.

Yeah, I'm sure a lot of it is copy/pasted or #included from his other work.

There is repetition but it doesn't look auto-generated to me.

I wish he'd write a post about how he developed these visualizations. How does one even learn how to make something this amazing?

> How does one even learn how to make something this amazing?

I haven't done anything quite this amazing, but I have created other things with minimal upfront knowledge and "the way" is simple: just jump in and give it your best shot with what you already know, identify the most glaring deficiency in what you made, take your best shot at solving that, and repeat that process until you have something cool. You can also use this process to focus what you spend time studying/learning, as you backfill the information you were missing to figure out how to overcome whatever obstacles you encounter.

It does take time, but you know what they say about long journeys and single steps. Sometimes there are no shortcuts and you just have to take a lot of steps.