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at a certain point it would probably help to meaningfully downsample/summarize the data at the larger scales..."semantic zooming"...then you just aren't plotting as many points

agree that using the API is likely the nicer route. you can also apply for a quota increase, I recently applied for youtube API quota increase to 100,000 units and it was approved for my app (https://cmdcolin.github.io/ytshuffle/) I was concerned they wouldn't like that the app downloads so much data but it was approved without much question, they just wanted terms of service prominently displayed to end users

got a "RequestError: certificate has expired" doing a release just now...as usual, not a good idea to release on a friday

see also: the noise/experimental music label (iatrogenesis tapes), created by brother of "casiotone for the painfully alone"

typescriptifying some legacy code is a similar idle brain task that i've sometimes done

I always like this when the url is always copyable, but in our app, the state can get quite large. We started with base64 encoded gzip of json.stringified app state but just gets quite long. Arguably it could be reduced a little bit, but would still be hundreds-thousands of chars routinely, so we switched to using a little URL shortening service that we wrote on aws lambda+dynamodb

HTML5 canvases are probably subject to different rules. I have definitely run into canvas limits also. this stackoverflow from 2014 shows some limits https://stackoverflow.com/a/11585939/2129219 (looks updated in 2018 here https://github.com/jhildenbiddle/canvas-size#test-results)

I remember my neighbors dad showing us this on their compaq pc. I can't remember exactly what year it was I would guess it was probably <2004. I think it had a cool 3d visualizer thing with lots of polys but not google earth

Now if only other programs would agree (e.g. web browser)

offtopic but didn't know wiki allowed slashes in article titles

this is a random note since I know OP didn't mention RSI, but since you did, I will mention: gotta watch out for putting too much pressure on your elbows with armrests and such. I found this can cause trouble with your pinky finger (sometimes called ulnar tunnel, which is fairly different from carpal tunnel). a post I wrote https://cmdcolin.github.io/posts/2022-07-08-pinky

i've not yet started my ergonomic gadgets journey but just being aware of the elbow->hand connection has helped me

really like the ability to cite sources, great effort

Just a random note but LSP (language server protocol) support in e.g. vim/neovim allows IDE-like features in a "plain old text editor"

I am not the author of this tool but found it extremely useful. It has caught almost a 100 typos in our codebase in snake_cased and camelCased variable names, in prose in our docs, and it is programming-language agnostic! So awesome. Highly recommend. Easily set up as a github action in CI too

look forward to having standardized e.g. "figure captions", looks like it's being worked out here https://github.com/jgm/djot/issues/28

pandoc is interesting because with markdown it currently converts the "alt text" for figures  in markdown->pdf conversion into the figure captions, which is cool but makes me think: it is not alt anymore, anyone should have it

TIL Aaron Schwartz had at least some role in creating markdown also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gruber#History

sounds like ya might want a computational egyptologist

"Software engineering at Google" (O'Reilley) has a lot of "team focused" advice also, it's overall pretty non-technical but generally a good read. Free to read online too https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book

congrats for kos

so your users every click is monitored by you? is that what you mean by observability? rather not do that to my users

the repeated notifixation message from snapd that i need to close the app is really bad IMO...and e.g.closing firefox does not make the message go away(??), its very confusing

this is a an important article. It's a bit hard to grok and requires some experience to understand but after you end up with a messy system doing too much ghosty stuff you yearn for stability

this is where the wiki "markup" really nails it, so easy to crosslink documents

reminds me of a bug bounty type post :) would be nice to get awarded similarly

any tools to help analyze this type of thing (e.g. what is and is not optimal for the jit)? have heard the term deopt but not sure how to get visibility into that

really? the article looks all js

I personally can't eat soy protein so the pea protein based beyond burger is great to me

that's too bad...I buy beyond burgers because the pea protein in beyond burger is good to me. I can't eat others like impossible burgers which use soy protein (cross sensitivity to soy from peanut allergy)