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Thank you for liking it. I'm looking for feedback if you'd like to try it. I will appreciate it. here are some interactive examples: https://epiphany.pub/post

Thank you for liking it. I'm looking for feedback if you'd like to try it. I will appreciate it. here are some interactive examples: https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2af8c797c6ad9a66181026ee4bd3806b6f211 https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2... https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=3e123914a88818452d7f2c24fd8ad079ad621a5e94f514cca5598fb9479d5342 https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=3e123914a88818452d7f2c24fd8a... I'm trying to make more.

lioeters 7y ago
Sure, here are some first impressions from someone who has no real experience with Jupyter, Observable, etc. :) I'm really amazed at the seamless reading and editing experience. This is very well-made, I can see it must have been quite an effort to make it feel so effortless. The ability for a code block to provide a "mini UI" is perfect. A reader can tweak controls and see immediate visual feedback, in the form of graphs, algorithms with variables.. One control I missed was a stop button - for the second example, I wanted to pause the generation of the 3D city/terrains, to continue reading. I liked the dotted blue vertical lines to indicate "block focus", to see what it contains when I click edit. While dragging a block, I had some difficulty crossing over another block which was long - in fact, I couldn't swap them, since dragging down didn't trigger the scroller to start. From what I know, this relates to the "center of gravity" during drag, whether the dragged block goes under another one. As for the scroller, maybe it's using a range that needs to be bigger, so that when I drag a block "below" the bottom of the screen, it starts scrolling. Anyway, lots of fun and impressive work! This looks very useful for educational purposes. You're really hitting a sweet spot with the concept - (just iterating on this phrase to get my head around it), a social publishing platform for interactive content. Great execution, and I'm looking forward to seeing it grow.
porker 7y ago
These look awesome! Great work on the reading experience as well as the code experience, something Jupyter notebooks lack.

lioeters 7y ago

Sure, here are some first impressions from someone who has no real experience with Jupyter, Observable, etc. :) I'm really amazed at the seamless reading and editing experience. This is very well-made, I can see it must have been quite an effort to make it feel so effortless. The ability for a code block to provide a "mini UI" is perfect. A reader can tweak controls and see immediate visual feedback, in the form of graphs, algorithms with variables.. One control I missed was a stop button - for the second example, I wanted to pause the generation of the 3D city/terrains, to continue reading. I liked the dotted blue vertical lines to indicate "block focus", to see what it contains when I click edit. While dragging a block, I had some difficulty crossing over another block which was long - in fact, I couldn't swap them, since dragging down didn't trigger the scroller to start. From what I know, this relates to the "center of gravity" during drag, whether the dragged block goes under another one. As for the scroller, maybe it's using a range that needs to be bigger, so that when I drag a block "below" the bottom of the screen, it starts scrolling. Anyway, lots of fun and impressive work! This looks very useful for educational purposes. You're really hitting a sweet spot with the concept - (just iterating on this phrase to get my head around it), a social publishing platform for interactive content. Great execution, and I'm looking forward to seeing it grow.

porker 7y ago

These look awesome! Great work on the reading experience as well as the code experience, something Jupyter notebooks lack.