Very interesting. Why is there work inside of the education sections of the life timeline? In the project planning example, I could see it being useful to have something like $ref references from Swagger to e.g. reference a duration from a project group into the overall section.
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#12This looks neat. I wish it used iso8601 [0] dates. It’s pretty convenient as the time periods uses the format YYYY-MM-DD/YYYY-MM-DD and I think is easier to mentally parse than MM/DD/YYYY-MM/DD/YYYY. Of course I didn’t even know what a solidus (“/“) was until using iso8601. Also, I usually find standards pretty much as overhead, but 8601 seems pretty good as a universal standard. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO…
Yeah, so long form 8601 are supported
`2022-08-02T23:00:00.000Z - 2022-08-03T00:00:00.000Z: Event`
but in general I do need to figure out a way to allow more customizable date parsing.[0]
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#13This looks neat. I wish it used iso8601 [0] dates. It’s pretty convenient as the time periods uses the format YYYY-MM-DD/YYYY-MM-DD and I think is easier to mentally parse than MM/DD/YYYY-MM/DD/YYYY. Of course I didn’t even know what a solidus (“/“) was until using iso8601. Also, I usually find standards pretty much as overhead, but 8601 seems pretty good as a universal standard. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO…
> It’s pretty convenient as the time periods uses the format YYYY-MM-DD/YYYY-MM-DD and I think is easier to mentally parse than MM/DD/YYYY-MM/DD/YYYY
Especially for those outside the USA!
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#14Really awesome to see this evolving to this stage :)
I'm glad you're here to see it!
So cheeaun here posted his life timeline project[0] 9 years ago (!) to hacker news[1] and I always thought it was pretty neat. I made a tool to make timelines like that and it has since evolved into markwhen.
[0] https://github.com/cheeaun/life [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6833565
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#15Hat tip to a fellow follower of CGP Grey's yearly themes :)
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#16This looks neat. I wish it used iso8601 [0] dates. It’s pretty convenient as the time periods uses the format YYYY-MM-DD/YYYY-MM-DD and I think is easier to mentally parse than MM/DD/YYYY-MM/DD/YYYY. Of course I didn’t even know what a solidus (“/“) was until using iso8601. Also, I usually find standards pretty much as overhead, but 8601 seems pretty good as a universal standard. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO…
> It’s pretty convenient as the time periods uses the format YYYY-MM-DD/YYYY-MM-DD and I think is easier to mentally parse than MM/DD/YYYY-MM/DD/YYYY Especially for those outside the USA!
As someone who grew up in the US, it's still bizarre as a programmer to have a mixed-significance ordering (MM-DD-YYYY) instead of any consistently-endian ordering (DD-MM-YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD).
Out of curiosity, in what order do Europeans verbally say full dates with month names? Or does it vary by language?
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#17This is awesome! I want to see other tools like this. I dream of a project management system that is text based and lives in your codebase seems we are pretty close with this. Planning (this), comments / descriptions (markdown), identity / people (??), tickets (??) Anyone know of something like this?
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#18Very cool! One suggestion, this is not Markdown, this is plain text for timelines.
Don’t be afraid to distinguish your tool from its inspirations.
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#19Very cool! One suggestion, this is not Markdown, this is plain text for timelines. Don’t be afraid to distinguish your tool from its inspirations.
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#20Clicking and dragging doesn't seem to work for me. Firefox 102.0b8, Linux