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Niki Tonsky

New blogpost: Going to the cinema is a data visualization problem

tonsky.me/blog/allekinos/

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Hans

@nikitonsky it is currently missing the city of Tübingen. When manually loading it via the URL, none of the movie theaters there show up, just surrounding ones.

alifeee

@nikitonsky this is cool!

I think @nonnullish might like it as they've been doing similar things recently(?)

Florian Schulze

@nikitonsky where do you get the data from? I’m missing smaller cities like Fulda which has a cinemaxx or similar (not sure which chain) and even smaller cities with independent cinemas

Niki Tonsky

Say what you want, but there’s something immediately obvious about aqua-style controls. They stand out. You can see what’s interactive and what’s not in an instant. You can see what’s expected from you

Compare to modern flat design, where you have to look very closely just to understand what’s what and which parts you are supposed to touch

That’s not progress

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Tom Walker

@nikitonsky The modern one would be way more usable with the addition of some shadows, even the black-boxy kind

Ivan Reese

@nikitonsky One of my all-time favs from the late Aqua era is this enormous toggle.

Niki Tonsky

What if blueprints but for spreadsheets? Exists?

Last time I needed a spreadsheet it was very hard to get any derived data, even a simple map/filter, outside of trivialities like “sum this column”

Niki Tonsky

Content: fits on one screen
Twitter: let’s make you click 10 times to see it and after each click you wait three seconds

Modern engagement-driven services are crazy

𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚊𝚗

@grumpy_website That can't be right. No one in their right mind would do something like that. It's inhumane.

Niki Tonsky

atof/strtof should really be locale-independent, and versions that ARE locale-dependent should accept it explicitly

Niki Tonsky

Expectation: AI helps solving the tasks
Reality: AI creates tasks

[DATA EXPUNGED]
Niki Tonsky

“The simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just these tools is a small protest against platform capitalism: a way to assert sustainability, independence, longevity.” — Jarrett Fuller

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patricus

@inautilo yeah, but also not having any features at all, simplicity is bad for that.

Khrys

@inautilo I totally agree : my website is definitely a radical act of small protest.

ms. leave-a-mix

@inautilo

I agree and would go even further with the usage of standard communicqtion protocols you free yourself from technical dependencies. I.e mastodon to share links and quotes instead of an rss feed or a mailing list, or using an Irc server for chatting and questions.

Niki Tonsky

Someone on tumblr asked why 3.5" floppy disks seem so much more friendly (or "pleasant and edible" to use their terminology) than 5.25" floppy disks, so I wrote about it:

tumblr.com/foone/7502161359354

TL;DR: It's because Sony.

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Tirrimas

@foone we used to call them "cookie disks"

itgrrl :donor:

@foone I love “the clicky thing that goes pyoing” & “the swooshy thing that goes snap” 😂

Niki Tonsky

Interesting to see users working around the lack of tactile buttons in some modern cars:

Verb

@danluu byob: bring your own buttons

Cali

@danluu Cheers to ingenuity, but booooooo on the people that let this design go to production.

Niki Tonsky

CSS challenge! First picture is what I need, second is what I get. Can you fix it? Has to stay a single grid. Start here jsfiddle.net/3qjebucd/2/

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Roma Komarov

@nikitonsky The `.poster` elements should always have a `span` that will cover more lines that you think it should: in this case the second and third poster should have a span 3 and 4.

If you're ok with removing the vertical gap from the grid, then you could do something like span 99, but with a vertical gap (like in your example) it won't work.

Sergey

@nikitonsky I did it for . Not quite sure what I was expecting but this is kind of boring. :(

Niki Tonsky

Germans: we already sorted everything for you 💪

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adingbatponder

@nikitonsky axes illegible because too small... what do they say ?

InsertUser

@nikitonsky If it was sorted wouldn't it be a diagonal line?
This actually makes it look like they're the least organised.

Niki Tonsky

CSS is still hard and it’s winning

Niki Tonsky

Hardest part of working on clj-reload is that you can’t use clj-reload during development.

When I was hacking on tools.namespace, I also found out the hard way that /cognitect-labs/test-runner depends on tools.namespace too

Niki Tonsky

2022/2024. That’s one way to close doggie daycare

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