Peter Beshai

A few months ago I made Tidy.js, a javascript data wrangling package modeled after #rstats dplyr. It works on plain arrays of js objects. Curious if there'd be any interest in this lib if I were to open source it (currently it's internal to Netflix) esp given arquero now exists.

@adamwathan @leerob I feel like multicursor editing was the first step in this direction. The gateway drug to duplication

I'm thinking about this a lot lately — did we only ever create abstractions to avoid duplication, and now is maintaining duplication actually not really a problem? I'm working on this very componentized marketing site kit product we're building and can't shake the feeling that maybe reusable components won't be as helpful long term as reference snippets an LLM can copy and edit in bulk for you if you ever want to change something across all of them.

I migrated cursor​.com from a CMS to raw code and Markdown. I had estimated it would take a few weeks, but was able to finish the migration in three days with $260 in tokens and hundreds of agents. Here's how I did it + all my my usage stats. leerob.com/agents

@CrumpledJumper Too kind Todd!! 🙏 🐐

With experiments like Buckets, Shotline, Scattershot, and NBA 3D, @pbesh is your favorite NBA data viz guy's favorite NBA data viz guy.

there was a brain grenade lofted my way today... "what's the coolest basketball data visualization you've seen someone else create?" 💥🫨 can't pick one, so here's a thread of a few of my all-time favs, starting with these 3D-printed shot charts from @flowingdata 😍😍😍

@Elijah_Meeks Breaking changes since then are so disappointing 😢

All technology evaluation should take into account the state of publicly available patterns of that tech (tutorials, sample code, etc) before September 2021.

Steph Curry's 20 made shots from Game 7.

@NadiehBremer Yea exactly. I find the waves draw my attention the most and feels more like a focal point drowning out the constellations as is, so maybe more subtle would feel more balanced. Still looks good either way— it’s just a different focus, at least for me

@pbesh LOL, rainbow bacon, can't unsee that now 😂 You mean to have less difference in the purple, so darker purple that ends on the outside than I currently have? Def a beach vibe (by accident), but I'm drawn to the idea of such graphical and un-space colors, something bold

Been playing with an idea to create very graphical Milky Way streaks across the back - The purple approach is fine, but is it good enough? - The rainbow is too distracting from the stars I think - The aqua/beige was a bug, but I might like it the most of all 🤔😅 Any thoughts?

@hamiltonulmer Thank you for this! I have been stacking two <text>s for too long 😅

I have a very overwrought and computationally expensive outline Svelte action I apply to chart labels (expensive at scale of a linked mouseover w/ lots of text). It turns out I can set paint-order=stroke and just stroke the text instead to get the same punch-out effect

@allisonjking @ReesesBookClub Whaaat!!! Congrats, that’s so cool!

in january I was selected as a @ReesesBookClub LitUp fellow and it took all this time and a retreat for it to feel real enough to post about! so incredibly grateful for the experience and for all the wonderful people I got to meet along the way 🥰😭🥰 instagram.com/p/Cnz1_dnvLYJ/…

@kevinzenghu @colbyrabideau @metaplane Ha what you're working with @colbyrabideau? That's awesome. What a duo!!

Today @colbyrabideau blew our team’s 🧠 by ungating our most requested feature to all @metaplane users...live on a team call. I won’t give too much away, but it’s one of the best-executed features of its kind in the data space. Grateful to be on this team!

@rachelbinx I’d use it as an excuse to try out @astrodotbuild

omg haha what was I thinking, why would I use a CMS product when I could build/host this myself

7am on the first day off & already have my mind buzzin’ about holiday projects

@zachlieberman These light sketches are so good. Will any of them be added to your shop?

Print test

@smtology @Elijah_Meeks @DataVizSociety I think we did handle quote tweets but I don't remember the details unfortunately. The research lab had elevated access to Twitter APIs so it made it a bit easier to do things like this

@pbesh @Elijah_Meeks @DataVizSociety That is a beautiful cesspool! Can you reference being shown here? And does this accommodate quote tweets somehow? (Actually Elijah's doesn't currently handle that either...)

We're discussing what works and what doesn't about Twitter at @DataVizSociety and, since it is the #datavisualization society, I felt the need to show what a twitter conversation looks like: @smtology talking about gender dynamics in chart discussions. twitter.com/smtology/statu…

@Elijah_Meeks @benmschmidt @DataVizSociety @smtology @NadiehBremer Not sure @bridgitmendler, @dkroy, @CCCatMIT ever published the work, but looks like she wrote a bit about it here if you're curious: @socialmachines/learning-from-conversation-trees-35eb83310377" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@socialmachine…

@Elijah_Meeks @benmschmidt @DataVizSociety @smtology @NadiehBremer Write up of the zany process here: medium.com/cortico/visual… this version was my favorite, but deemed too subtle for the screen

The Spellcaster, my new #webgl experience using #threejs, #gsap and a ton of #shaders. I guess you got the reference. 🧙 💫 adinunz.io/spellcaster/ #gpgpu #realtime #glsl #particles #trails #parametriccurves #instanced

@natashajaques @uwcse Congrats Natasha!! And welcome back to the PNW!

I am delighted to announce that I will be joining UW @uwcse as an assistant professor starting next year! If you're interested in joining my lab, please consider applying to UW and mentioning me in your application. For more on my research agenda, see natashajaques.ai

@ThatOneBrah @flybayer FWIW I did write a very long post that shows how to reproduce this. Might be simpler now (post is from 2020) but probably similar ideas medium.com/cortico/3d-dat…

@flybayer I'm not sure if this is the easiest per se, but definitely very cool and flexible. Not sure I've seen a complete toolkit for something like this yet though twitter.com/pbesh/status/1… Using react-three-fiber, super nice library to work with.

What's the easiest way to display some data in 3D ?

we can _finally_ talk about an experiment @GitHubNext in the works for a long time: GitHub Blocks! tldr ✨ There's a lot more to your codebase than just.. code. We want to make it easier to create interactive docs, support your team workflows, and bring your repo to life ✨ 🧵