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SunCalc is one of my first open source projects — made the first commit 15 years ago and it had its share of wonderful uses ever since, but it's been somewhat neglected in recent y…

Nice article! As someone who implemented both clustering and heatmaps in Mapbox / Maplibre GL JS, just wanted to add that clustering isn't just a visualization technique — it's als…

Amazing achievement, congratulations! Can't seem to be able to read it though, it greets me with "Sorry, you have been blocked" CloudFlare page — is this a HN overloading the websi…

You can read more about why most web maps are like this and a quest to fix this in this article: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/adaptive-projections

> Perhaps you see this conflict from the perspective of a sports fan I see this from the perspective of a Ukrainian living in Kyiv. Your ignorance is mind-boggling, and after the l…

Russian war industry just burns reserves for nothing — hundreds of billions spent on missiles and long range drones didn't achieve any strategic objectives, all those expensive mod…

Soviet stockpiles nearly depleted, 1.5 million dead or wounded, Black Sea fleet practically destroyed, third of strategic bomber fleet destroyed, economy in downfall, no major citi…

Yeah, I think I last updated that website even before I released the first version of Leaflet. Life is very hectic at the moment, but I do really want to get to it sooner than late…

Wrote it 14 years ago! https://github.com/mourner/suncalc/ It's a bit neglected but I'll do some upkeep shortly...

Author of Suncalc here — this is exactly the kind of stuff I love to see my code being used in, thanks for sharing!

The updated syntax looks brilliant — can't wait to try it out by upgrading some of my older notebooks! I was worried about the future of Observable since the Canvas announcement — …

Also worth checking out https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler , which maybe a bit less mature, but is much faster than Tilemaker.

Wonderful project! One thing I wish the website would have is being able to find the right book to read out of this enormous list — e.g. showing / sorting by Goodreads ratings (whi…

I used it extensively until Microsoft did that absolutely atrocious “redesign” that tried turning it from a messenger into a flashy social app, making it an unusable ugly mess. Tel…

The problem with map projections in the digital age is what works well on world scale doesn't on street scale and vice versa. As explained in detail in this post: https://www.mapbo…

Love Bunny too, wonderful service and great team. I wish there'd be an easy way to set up auto-deploy to Bunny Edge Storage on GitHub commit (to avoid doing so manually), but I gue…

Got a bunch of PRs adding missing terms after the article, nice :) Thanks for the mention!

A lovely map — thanks for using Leaflet and keeping that little Ukrainian flag in the corner! Probably needs an attribution for the map added too (looks like it's Carto with an Ope…

Not too fancy, but I built a math model & interactive visualization of my parking spot to understand how to efficiently park there without bumping into anything: https://observable…

I've been looking for a replacement to WebGL Stats for a long time — thank you so much for making it! This is indispensable.

To people missing the joke, this is a quote from ChatGPT that was asked to comment on Tauri in "Dev Mode", taken from comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34972791

I'd suggest KataGo, which is much stronger and more actively developed than Leela Zero https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo

Rooting for you get through this! How did the meeting go?

The new geo mark looks great, congrats on such awesome progress on the Plot library, Mike & Fil! Visualizing any kind of data in a few lines of code quickly is a very compelling us…