How We Built the GitHub Globe • Hacker News Board

Re: How We Built the GitHub Globe

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Post by kowlo » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:45 PM UTC

Great way to visualise the data. I wonder if it will work its way into any plotting libraries...

Re: How We Built the GitHub Globe

#12

Post by davidjnelson » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:47 PM UTC

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #6

lights0123 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And you don't see any of this stuff when logged in.

You do, just go to https://github.com/home

Their home page is really a work of art, just beautiful.

Re: How We Built the GitHub Globe

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Post by kowlo » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:51 PM UTC

gk1 wrote: post #3

Looks a lot like the globe on Stripe's homepage: https://stripe.com They even had a post about it, too: https://stripe.com/blog/globe

Very similar - and posted earlier! The GitHub one has some nicer effects.

Re: How We Built the GitHub Globe

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Post by kowlo » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:53 PM UTC

A link to something similar (but not the same) https://experiments.withgoogle.com/chrome/globe

Re: How We Built the GitHub Globe

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Post by UnnoTed » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:56 PM UTC

Not useful, all it does is lag the page and increase the cpu usage to 40% when you have hardware acceleration turned off.

Re: How We Built the GitHub Globe

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Post by Plaastix » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:56 PM UTC

This is amazing! Is it just me or is the performance of Github's globe really bad on Firefox? The FPS is super low for me on Firefox but fine in Chrome.

Re: How We Built the GitHub Globe

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Post by willcodeforfoo » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:56 PM UTC

Pretty clever using the timezone offset to approximate the user's location without using GeoIP. I hadn't noticed that but sure enough, my (approximate) location is in view first.

Re: How We Built the GitHub Globe

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 8:17 PM UTC

kowlo wrote: post #13

gk1 wrote: post #3

Looks a lot like the globe on Stripe's homepage: https://stripe.com They even had a post about it, too: https://stripe.com/blog/globe

Very similar - and posted earlier! The GitHub one has some nicer effects.

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Re: How We Built the GitHub Globe

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Post by elwell » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 8:18 PM UTC

gk1 wrote: post #3

Looks a lot like the globe on Stripe's homepage: https://stripe.com They even had a post about it, too: https://stripe.com/blog/globe

Dating further back, it might be even closer to this old "Chrome experiment" from about 10 years ago: https://github.com/dataarts/webgl-globe

Re: How We Built the GitHub Globe

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Post by GraemeMeyer » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 8:30 PM UTC

Plaastix wrote: post #16

This is amazing! Is it just me or is the performance of Github's globe really bad on Firefox? The FPS is super low for me on Firefox but fine in Chrome.

Performance is fine for me in Firefox, but it is using 3x the CPU of Edgeium, and more RAM, so I would guess the GPU acceleration isn't working in FF