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aubergene | 11 months ago | on: Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button

Just to add Svelte (`pnpm create vite -t svelte-ts`) ~8KB

  dist/index.html                  0.46 kB │ gzip: 0.30 kB
  dist/assets/index-yJpzg09Q.css   1.26 kB │ gzip: 0.63 kB
  dist/assets/index-CxtJFQC8.js   17.91 kB │ gzip: 7.72 kB

aubergene | 3 years ago | on: It’s time to leave the leap second in the past

Whoever made that first line chart should have used step interpolation. There is no point in time when none integer amounts of seconds have been added, but it gives the impression it's been smeared over the whole year

aubergene | 3 years ago | on: Americans are drowning in spam

When I moved from the UK to USA it was the same in reverse. I had just got a new phone and number and immediately started getting spam calls and texts. I asked my colleagues how I could report or block these and they didn't really have an answer. OFCOM in the UK largely deals with spam and when I've had spam it's usually been that it comes from outside the UK but will still eventually get blocked

aubergene | 6 years ago | on: Old CSS, New CSS

I used to write XHTML and found that if you server it with the mime type application/xhtml+xml then the browser will validate it, which can be a problem if you can't reliably output valid XML

aubergene | 10 years ago | on: Legends in D3

Looks very good.

For the size legend, the defaults are a bit odd. You should almost always be using d3.scale.sqrt() as you're comparing area, also zero in the domain should usually map to zero on the range.

I made a similar legend for circle areas, but they are stacked within each other. http://bl.ocks.org/aubergene/4723857

aubergene | 10 years ago | on: Life paint

Side note, but this would be great for some creative graffiti uses

aubergene | 11 years ago | on: Mozilla to open first-world front in Firefox OS war

I was given a Firefox OS phone at Mozfest last year. I lost my other phone earlier this year and so used it exclusively for four weeks. I'm sorry to say it's pretty terrible at this stage. I was using v2 of Firefox OS.

The problems are broadly that it was slow, unreliable and poorly designed. It would just become completely unresponsive a couple of times a week, requiring the battery to be removed to restart. There are very few well known apps. Twitter seems to be the only one, and it was so slow for scrolling that I gave up using it. The included apps were just placeholders to install apps, almost all of them only worked online. I wouldn't recommend getting one to anybody. I'm sure you could buy a cheap secondhand Android and have a better experience. It was worse than Android 1.6.

There's such a huge mountain of work for the Mozilla developers to get this to be in anyway competitive to Android. I think Mozilla would be better to concentrate their resources elsewhere.

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