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Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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It would be fun to see this with local daylight hours mapped to the squares, so I could get a feel for where my consumption is at within "daylight" vs the whole "day" SunCalc is a good tool for this, if you're interested: https://github.com/mourner/suncalc (I've used it on a personal project, and the API was a little awkward but the results are good: https://daylight.website/ )

Your personal project is a pretty cool and interesting way to visualize daylight (especially using the fast forward button to go through a week at a time). Thanks for making it.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I love the week skip too, interesting to see the shape change over the year.

Undocumented feature: if you hold down "w" or "shift+w" keys you can skip through weeks even faster.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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post #50

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I love your personal project! Would make an amazing smartwatch face!

There's an Apple watch face called "solar dial" that's pretty similar, and I've seen others like this. To me this is the most logical watch face — everything else just confuses matters.

Oo, this does watch face does look nice https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-eerie-beauty-of-the-ap...

Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's an Apple watch face called "solar dial" that's pretty similar, and I've seen others like this. To me this is the most logical watch face — everything else just confuses matters.

Oo, this does watch face does look nice https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-eerie-beauty-of-the-ap...

Funnily enough I had that article already saved to pinboard!

Love your app btw, I made a similar clock years ago but with just sunrise and sunset times. I've just updated it with suncalc.js to add twilight times also, so thanks.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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post #95

In Sydney it's 9pm but by the looks of the Rectangles they think it's 10pm.

Thanks for flagging this! I changed my time zone to Sydney, and it's indeed 1hr ahead of schedule. I'll look into it.

I think our daylight savings started around that day!
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