https://tenki.so is a tabular representation of the 7-day weather forecast across Japan, which I made for traveling opportunistically.
After the JMA updated their 7-day forecast to be harder to read at a glance, I started pulling and processing the data hourly using Cloudflare workers and trying to present it densely and intuitively using Flareact. It’s been fun exercising the limits of workers (streaming XML at first), organizing the data effectively, and playing with visualization… as well as having a great way to pick a destination when a spell of dark weather is approaching home.
Mega thanks for making and posting this. I've been searching for a tool to "destructure" exactly this way... not necessarily down to radicals, but to any part that has meaning by itself.
Thank you for citing your sources too. As others have mentioned, much of the fun of learning is developing the tools, and this thread helps fill a gaping hole in mine.
How is viewing Chernobyl from that angle useful in this context?
The Houston Ship Channel has the potential to become an environmental disaster similar to Chernobyl, but affecting the fourth-largest population and economic center in the US.
It's not hyperbole -- if you drive down 225 and 146 from Houston to Galveston, it feels like you're in the Sonic the Hedgehog Chemical Plant Zone... it just goes on and on at an unbelievable scale. It self-perpetuates partially because expanding existing petrochemical complexes seems to meet less opposition than building new ones.
Representing time with colored spaces decreases information density. Green & red blocks aren't enough -- the primary data, the numbers, are still required labels, and are made smaller to accommodate the new elements.
Shrinking the primary data decreases visibility, so you, with decent eyesight, need to be closer. My grandmother will have an even harder time resolving it.
Visibility hasn't been addressed, but deserves to be in any conversation about signage.
Wcd's quality (most recordings are posted in multiple formats including FLAC and 320 & v0 mp3) is assured -- the community is serious and self-policing about encoding. Is the same true of Soulseek?
UX isn't about who did what first. It's about doing what makes sense for the user, then reapplying it in every scenario that works. Pull to refresh on the iPhone was utter genius and everyone adopted it. No one is saying, "Well Tweetie did that first!"
Also, it seems like a "no brainer" now, but during the development it's easy for these no brainer things to either be ignored or written off as a waste of valuable engineering time.
Same here. When writing instructions about how to install the historious bookmarklet, I had to take screenshots of all the browsers, including the iPhone. I don't think of it as a nice touch, it's integral to people's understanding of how to install it.
I haven't had a single request for additional instructions, ever.
I was surprised that the author was assuming everyone would guess the grid view would do better. It seems completely obvious to me that a list view is better.
The 20-year-old office clerk at a Beijing cosmetics manufacturer knows it could set him back more than $1,000. He'll have to save for months. But he said it would be money well spent. "As a man, you must have one of those bags," he said. "It will bring you status, dignity and boost your image."
Petrifying though that may be, that's only months. We saddle ourselves with six years of payments for the status symbols we can't afford.
After the JMA updated their 7-day forecast to be harder to read at a glance, I started pulling and processing the data hourly using Cloudflare workers and trying to present it densely and intuitively using Flareact. It’s been fun exercising the limits of workers (streaming XML at first), organizing the data effectively, and playing with visualization… as well as having a great way to pick a destination when a spell of dark weather is approaching home.