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Re: Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

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I somehow fail to understand what this is, but am impressed by it nonetheless. Is this purely for animation designers with coding skills? I thought animation work is done in editors with even less code required usually, but for me as a developer this seems more approachable. I could not look at the advanced examples on my iPad though.

At least at a glance I think you’ve got this right. And I think it’s the same kind of productivity boost that came with graphics tools getting JSX/etc bridges. You can design and dev in the same environment with minimal handoff, far fewer broken expectations when they render differently due to different presentation metrics, and tons of opportunity to automate the design-build process and visual documentation.

Re: Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

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I'm so sick of this ironic brutalist web design. That HTML blue. It's so frequently paired with that gross salmon color.

It started with Dropbox: https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/dropbox-rebrand-collins-gra...

I’m certain that I saw similar stuff on Bloomberg well before that. But yeah it’s been a thing for a while.

Re: Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

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I'm so sick of this ironic brutalist web design. That HTML blue. It's so frequently paired with that gross salmon color.

I personally like seeing it because it’s still not as pervasive as a lot of design trends and feels like there’s still some variety on the web. But I pain for anyone struggling with the accessibility of these designs.

Re: Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

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40-second video that lagged so much it was unplayable on my X200 that runs discord fine, and can have 300 tabs open in firefox without a sweat. Obviously, we're off to a good start.

the power of HN, Speculation the conteiner is creating new instances like fire to HN traffic

Re: Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

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I'm so sick of this ironic brutalist web design. That HTML blue. It's so frequently paired with that gross salmon color.

Even just directly on white, I find that Blue to be far too powerful. On that salmon, it's horrid.

Combined with the fonts and font sizes, it's rather hard to enjoy the site.

Re: Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

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Nodes.io is looking great! *For other HN readers: If you're going to leave a message, can you ask yourself, if it's really worth to be so negative? *

I very seldom share anything of my own here for this reason. It’s cool to have high expectations but it’s really a shame how much people just dump on everything without any consideration for the intent or level of effort that went into something.

It’s disheartening. I have a project I’ve just launched that I’m incredibly proud of, with all the warts a just launched thing might have, and I’ve barely mentioned it here and certainly won’t Show HN because I would be heartbroken to see it trashed by a bunch of strangers.

Re: Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

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I'm so confused. "Build interactive web apps" "Create bespoke tools" Any examples besides weird shapes?

Maybe weird shapes is the future of web? Forget about JS and React. This is future old man.

CSS regions back from the dead?

Re: Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

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Been following the creators for awhile and very much happy to see them democratizing their difficult skillset.

Most designers -- think anyone using figma -- are effectively locked out of modern interactive and animated visuals due to not knowing hardcore shaders + effective js coding. To get a feel for how hard that is, look at the public timeline of Shirley Wu, another wonderful award-winning designer and experienced js coder, to pick this kind of stuff up. Nodes makes it a lot more accessible, similar to Max/msp for musicians. Once you look beyond the over-claiming, which is clearly nails-on-chalkboard for most engineers and scientists as you are seeing in the comments -- this is a wonderful and enabling project.

Extra impressive is they do not seem to try to 'dumb it down'. They are a consultancy and (seem to) try to use it for their own bespoke advanced installations. I don't know how well this will translate to others, but the success of Max msp and super collider make me optimistic that it can grow to those levels. Cycling 74 supports 20+ employees and empowers many musicians, and as Nodes can be used for commercial art (web+tv ads, music videos, landing pages, ...), I can see them being even bigger.

Re: Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

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It's hard to overestimate the impact of this technique, though it is 5-10 years too soon. :)

What this does is lets people reason about change in massively multivariate data sets. Like GPT level multi-variate. I look forward to seeing this applied to the state of ML models, as this is what we're going to need to express the complexity of a lot of techs we will all depend on.

There is a casting pearls before swine problem they will need to overcome, as the level of management understanding to interpret and respond to the changes this framework expresses is going to take some years to get people with that level of technical sophistication into decision making positions.

Near term, my impression is it will be amazing for getting funding for scientists of all kinds, and being used in hyper-competitive data fields like americas cup sailing, F1 racing, and spooky intelligence/social media company social engineering analysis, and I could see it being used in a new hybrid of quant trading funds, as any sufficiently advanced data vis is essentially arbitrage. All very rarefied niches with a high degree of autonomy. It may be too cool for making policy or lower level decisions in the near term, but this is super epic.

When you look at the recent history of how data viz has impacted fields, it has always been way out ahead of the industries it served. I hacked around with 3D "coral" graph viz back around 99-01 (early CAIDA stuff) for internet security analysis in govt, and in spite of its incredible analytic power, the anecdata was it didn't get traction because it was unmanageably powerful. However, I think we're just entering a data viz renaissance, and this is the bar. Amazing.

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