Noah Veltman

@conorsen from the 2017 Tortilla Industry Association conference

Casual dining earnings calls amuse me for some reason, hearing CEO’s say things like “We plan to relaunch our fajitas platform.”

@wallacetim big marble madness vibes!

Mississippi River system elevation study. Gel pen on black paper.

@wallacetim makes me nostalgic for blocks.roadtolarissa.com/veltman/4d1413…

Texachusetts

@simonw is it just images that are an issue here? seems like you could have it render a regular MD link where the link text is "Read the docs on MDN" or something, but the link goes somewhere else and exfiltrates in the process...

Once again: if your LLM chat system has access to untrusted content (in this case GitHub Copilot Chat can see the content of text files in your editor) do NOT include support for rendering markdown images from arbitrary domains, or you'll have a data exfiltration security hole

@dmccarthy7 all of the Big Three and the Big Four are pretty high on the list!

@veltman McKinsey may not have the same raw number, but their slugging percentage is up there

Was wondering what the most extensive "Controversies" section on Wikipedia is and depending on how you tally it I think it's either the BBC, Wells Fargo, or KPMG

saving this GPT quick reference for the future

"if your request for JSON is too formal, it might just scream whitespace into the void forever" is a very funny era of computing

@adamrpearce @tophtucker dang now I gotta read the CA high speed rail biennial reports to make a three-axis version (dollars, years, miles remaining)

@tophtucker what about actual time v. predicted time remaining? (might not work as well w/ more jumps)

On our drive back from seeing the eclipse in Newport VT to Boston MA, I kept track of the Google Maps estimated time of arrival. When we started, Claire guessed we’d get home at 2 am, I guessed 1 am, and Peter (unscarred by 2017 traffic) guessed 10:08 pm. Congratulations Peter!

Was wondering "did the Warriors have as many late-game collapses as it felt like this year" so I charted each postseason team's losses by their peak win probability during the game (answer: yeah pretty much)

@hamiltonulmer "the perf issue arises when there are a lot of these ... and even then it's just loading time" - is that because you're generating a new interpolate() for each? or is it slow upfront even with a shared interpolator?

@veltman will email you the perf issue arises when there are a lot of these, and I'm using a small max segment size. And even then it's just loading time where it's obvious, not the actual animation

flubber's a great tool to interpolate between three shapes, all of which appear in some form in our marketing assets. The oval is smooth, but the star and the cross are both 16-point paths with no curves.

@hamiltonulmer and because of the radial symmetry you can kind of custom interpolate by angle + radius instead - this is what flubber toCircle does (alas there is no toEllipse)

@hamiltonulmer I suspect that it's all the upfront path.getPointAtLength calls that drag, since your shapes are all nice and symmetrical you could precompute the corresponding polylines in pure math (and it would even look a wee bit nicer to a discerning eye)

@hamiltonulmer other hunch is precomputing the frames since there aren't too many, and then instead of interpolating you're only swapping (and then maybe you could even do it with a spritesheet + changing the offset!)

@hamiltonulmer for the ellipse, I might l just swap the real arc path in whenever t was close enough to 1 (or zero), since I don't think that would cost any more

@hamiltonulmer help, help, I'm being nerdsniped

there are a lot of ways to combine shape rotation and interpolation, but here's what was easiest w/ framer-motion: - useTransform to get the easing and interpolation right - useAnimationFrame to do the actual DOM manipulation

@b0rk almost ten years old but I once wrote a "Command Line Murder Mystery" as a teaching tool github.com/veltman/clmyst…

what helps people get comfortable on the command line? jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/0… Would love more stories of things that helped you in the last ~5 years!

@hamiltonulmer not joking!

@veltman lol I know you're joking but - sveltekit for app framework - d3 for data utils - duckdb for data plane - trpc for typesafe APIs - tanstack for virtualization & server state is a kind of an intriguing stack for a data-intensive application

Fantastic work by the team on this release. @sperosck in particular integrated a new custom date range picker that works much better than the native browser data picker. I think this work underscores the advantages and pitfalls of building mature applications with @sveltejs ...

@hamiltonulmer hoping for the hamstack

I tend to think that the velocity of changes to the JS ecosystem favors all frameworks, not just React. But it's going to be hard to match the ecosystem if we don't have a "tanstack for everything".