DataCrayon

Some of you may enjoy watching this too: Desktop Browsers Market Share over time (pie chart race) https://plotapi.com/explore/view/563abc04-f196-4992-aefe-973...

Plotapi (https://plotapi.com) has its 20% off sale running... it's independent :) focus is on creating beautiful and interactive visualisations

Hi - my pleasure!

It's as mkl said - a static site generator. It's a Python-based one so I was more comfortable customising it.

For PlotAPI (https://plotapi.com) I’m using:

- FastAPI for the SaaS itself

- WooCommerce for the accounts and subscriptions

- Nikola for the gallery and feature demonstrations

- FreeAgent for handling all the tax obligations (UK)

I’ve been checking out Ghost CMS recently. It’s looking great so far for content and subscription management.

some examples on https://plotapi.com/gallery/ and https://datacrayon.com

Just in case this is useful to you: https://darkreader.org

Self publishing has been great for me... given me more control and brought me closer to my readers [1]

It also means I've been able to work on "early access books" with regular updates

[1] https://datacrayon.com/shop/

Mine here https://datacrayon.com but working on a new project at the moment

I know what you mean. They've just released their "expansion" too, New Genesis, which pushes further away from the original!

Amazing on both the N64 and the Dreamcast!

I vaguely remember the right angle bends - but don't remember taking issue with them. Though - I was much younger and perhaps not as critical! Manx TT SuperBike was good

Sold on the Xbox a long time ago - back when I regularly moved from flat to flat it became a hassle to take all that stuff with me! I’ll check out Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, thanks for the tip!

The Dreamcast was great for racing games - particularly arcade racers too!

The last one I remember buying was Metropolis Street Racer - good fun.

If you haven’t checked it out, give Tokyo Xtreme Racer a look

Amazing work! The Dreamcast was and is my favourite console, I still have many great memories from having it all those years ago. So much so that I made this [1] when messing about with D3.js

It's mentioned in the article, but it's great that the emulation of original Xbox games has improved such that many games are now playable. I remember checking back every year to see if I could finally play Jet Set Radio Future (JSRF), and one day eventually being able to get in the game and play! It's hinted in the article but I look forward to the day when JSRF has better emulation. They've done great work to get it this far already!

It's a shame JSRF wasn't re-released on Steam like JSR... also a shame that they couldn't use the original soundtrack when re-releasing Crazy Taxi, so I still prefer to emulate on Dreamcast despite owning it on Steam.

[1] https://datacrayon.com/posts/visualisation/visualisation-wit...

Here is mine https://datacrayon.com

I use a static site generator that I've modified with features that I needed!

I'm very grateful for Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Notebooks. I work with them more than anything else, and even use them with Rust [1], my data visualisations [2], and to write my books [3].

[1] https://datacrayon.com/posts/programming/rust-notebooks/setu...

[2] https://plotapi.com/gallery/posts/showcase/pokemon-types-wit...

[3] https://datacrayon.com/shop/

Nice!

However, I prefer IBM Plex[1], and it has the advantage of being an open-source project!

I have recently re-designed my CV (15 pages down to 2) and used IBM Plex for all of it... happy so far.

[1] https://github.com/IBM/plex

I did some clean-up on Plotapi (https://plotapi.com) in preparation for the next data visualisation I introduce... it was mostly some improvements around caching and compression. REST Client plugin for VSCode has been useful for testing this!

Some users are making requests up to 20MB - so the next step will be to compress payloads on the sender side!

It is my pleasure!

https://m8.fyi/athorax

That is the first positive comment I've ever had about m8.fyi - thank you, really!

I'm British - "mate" is used often but it doesn't sound as friendly as when Aussies use it!

I bought https://m8.fyi because I wanted a URL shortener to use for my work - it's hard to expect someone to type out "https://datacrayon.com/posts/plotapi/showcase/pokemon-types-..." from a GIF/MP4.

I thought it was good at the time, i.e. "Mate, for your information...", e.g. "m8.fyi/something". However... it seems that many people don't recognise "m8.fyi/item" as a URL!

Thank you!

Gitea was quite easy to set up, I just had to run the executable from my local server and I was up and running! I've recently become more concerned with hosting my data off-premises, so I use this local Gitea instance when something doesn't need to be public-facing.

I was pleasantly surprised with an unforeseen advantage - speed! I have a few Unity projects that can be on the larger side, but pushing/pulling to them is quick in comparison to GitHub.

I left my job recently, which has allowed me to launch and work on Plotapi (https://plotapi.com) full-time.

I was spending 16+ hours a day on the project up until the launch. I organised myself with a local Gitea (https://gitea.com) installation and creating issues that I assigned to myself. I started off using Kanban within Gitea too, but as it was just me, I ended up preferring to use issues directly. Each day was focussed on making progress on the current issue!

I only launched Plotapi 3 days ago, so time will tell how I end up planning the days/weeks!

I purchased https://m8.fyi. The intention was to create very short urls to put on GIFs/videos, making it easy for people to visit the source (e.g. https://m8.fyi/mon), especially on mobile.

Most avoid it or don't realise it's a URL!

Mentioned on an earlier thread, but this is part of the reason I started my book "Visualisation with D3.js"[1]... it's early access and I'm trying to find more time to work on it. It's entirely separate from Observable, and it's my way of formalising my D3.js learning journey whilst producing something I can refer to in future.

[1] https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/visualisation-with-d3/

That's part of the reason I started my book "Visualisation with D3.js"[1]... it's early access and I'm trying to find more time to work on it, but it's all JS native

[1] https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/visualisation-with-d3/

Great! Nice to see very few breaking changes, the Dreamcast intro animation still works https://datacrayon.com/posts/visualisation/visualisation-wit...

It got me the first few customers for my book "Data Analysis with Rust Notebooks (https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/data-analysis-with-rust-...) which encouraged me to work on it further.

Besides that - the comments are incredible

I've been working on Chord Pro (https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/chord-pro/) for interactive data visualisation with chord diagrams... adding more features over time. It's a fun project, but it's operating at a loss if I factor in my time!

Hello - I am the person :)

You're right of course - 6 of the 11 parts in the book are dedicated to chord diagrams. Shortly after starting the book I started exploring chord diagrams again and was enjoying creating visualisations with them a little too much.

Please bear in mind that it's an early access book that I'm still working on. I can see you grabbed a copy when it was listed at 7.49 (it increases as I add more), and I have to defend it a little and say I don't believe the book is crap, just incomplete! I have been working on custom visualisations which will be working their way into the D3.js and Data is Beautiful book soon.

Anyway, thank you for the feedback, I have sent an email to offer a refund, because selling the books is supposed to support further work, and I don't feel comfortable if someone feels unhappy after doing that.