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Cool stuff! You might consider an alternative to screenshots for tables. There are a few problems with this strategy. Most significantly, it's inaccessible to
by maxbond 2y ago
Cool stuff!
You might consider an alternative to screenshots for tables. There are a few problems with this strategy. Most significantly, it's inaccessible to the visually impaired - they're hearing your description of the data without getting to read the data itself, which must be frustrating. Problems like this can feel hypothetical and abstract, but HN is a large enough audience that there are probably real people having this experience.
It also can't be copy pasted, it can't be plotted, it doesn't respect the settings of my browser like font size, etc. When I see some of these breakdowns, my first thought is, "hmm, I'd like to copy paste this into a spreadsheet and make a bar chart." (Indeed, that's when I noticed it was a screenshot.)
You might consider copy pasting from DataGrip into your editor and formatting it to be a markdown list or something. It probably would take about the same amount of time as taking a screenshot and putting it into your markdown.
Thanks again for sharing, this was an interesting breakdown.
- themanmaran 2y agoYou know I agonized over this for a bit before giving up and adding the screenshots. Originally I was trying to create some bar charts as well but decided to just post and edit later. Planning on a better writeup later and will incorporate this feedback.
- maxbond 2y agoFor sure. Done is better than perfect and iteration is a great strategy. I wouldn't have made this criticism if I'd realized you agonized over it.