IO Devices and Latency
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IO Devices and Latency
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#2Plenty of text but also many cool animations. I'm a sucker for visual aids. It's a good balance.
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#3Author of the blog here. I had a great time writing this. By far the most complex article I've ever put together, with literally thousands of lines of js to build out these interactive visuals. I hope everyone enjoys.
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#4Author of the blog here. I had a great time writing this. By far the most complex article I've ever put together, with literally thousands of lines of js to build out these interactive visuals. I hope everyone enjoys.
I don't see a single visual. I don't use the web with javascript. Why not embed static images instead or in addition?
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#5Author of the blog here. I had a great time writing this. By far the most complex article I've ever put together, with literally thousands of lines of js to build out these interactive visuals. I hope everyone enjoys.
I don't see a single visual. I don't use the web with javascript. Why not embed static images instead or in addition?
The visuals add a lot to this article. A big theme throughout is latency, and the visual help the reader see why tape is slower than an hdd, which is slower than an ssd, etc. Also, its just plain fun!
I'm curious, what do you do on the internet without js these days?
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't see a single visual. I don't use the web with javascript. Why not embed static images instead or in addition?
The visuals add a lot to this article. A big theme throughout is latency, and the visual help the reader see why tape is slower than an hdd, which is slower than an ssd, etc. Also, its just plain fun! I'm curious, what do you do on the internet without js these days?
> I'm curious, what do you do on the internet without js these days?
Browse the web, send/receive email, read stories, play games, the usual. I primarily use native apps and selectively choose what sites are permitted to use javascript, instead of letting websites visited on a whim run javascript willy nilly.
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#7Author of the blog here. I had a great time writing this. By far the most complex article I've ever put together, with literally thousands of lines of js to build out these interactive visuals. I hope everyone enjoys.
The level of your effort really shows through. If you had to ballpark guess, how much time do you think you put in? and I realize keyboard time vs kicking around in your head time are quite different
Re: IO Devices and Latency
#8Author of the blog here. I had a great time writing this. By far the most complex article I've ever put together, with literally thousands of lines of js to build out these interactive visuals. I hope everyone enjoys.
The level of your effort really shows through. If you had to ballpark guess, how much time do you think you put in? and I realize keyboard time vs kicking around in your head time are quite different
Thank you! I started this back in October, but of course have worked on plenty of other things in the meantime. But this was easily 200+ hours of work spread out over that time.
If this helps as context, the git diff for merging this into our website was: +5,820 −1
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The visuals add a lot to this article. A big theme throughout is latency, and the visual help the reader see why tape is slower than an hdd, which is slower than an ssd, etc. Also, its just plain fun! I'm curious, what do you do on the internet without js these days?
> I'm curious, what do you do on the internet without js these days? Browse the web, send/receive email, read stories, play games, the usual. I primarily use native apps and selectively choose what sites are permitted to use javascript, instead of letting websites visited on a whim run javascript willy nilly.
I respect it. In my very biased opinion, it's worth enabling for this article.
Re: IO Devices and Latency
#10Author of the blog here. I had a great time writing this. By far the most complex article I've ever put together, with literally thousands of lines of js to build out these interactive visuals. I hope everyone enjoys.
Half on topic: what libs/etc did you use for the animations? Not immediately obvious from the source page.
(it's a topic I'm deeply familiar with so I don't have a comment on the content, it looks great on a skim!) - but I've been sketching animations for my own blog and not liked the last few libs I tried.
Thanks!