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Making of Aprilzero

445 points by vpj 12y ago

nacs 12y ago
Previous discussion of AprilZero (the site, not the making of): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024073
- vxNsr 12y ago
  You can actually track him hour to hour... kinda crazy that he's providing that, the site design is a little different than described I found myself clicking on things that weren't links and being sent places I didn't want to go because I'd click something that looked clickable but turned out not to be and clicking on unclickable things sends you back one step.
blueatlas 12y ago
This is a striking example of the amount of work and thought that goes into a design that presents rich data so clearly and cleanly. The casual visitor would likely never have an idea of what it took to build what they are looking at.
- exogen 12y ago
  Yes. It really shines a lot on the fact that those futuristic movie interfaces didn't just spring out of the computer by virtue of it being the future. And I'm not talking about the CGI folks who create those interfaces for the movie (although of course that's a lot of work, too) – I mean in the fictional movie universe, where did those UIs come from? Are we assuming that in the future, computers will be auto-generating all these sweet transitions and design details? It seems to me that it will always come about just like April Zero – through a LOT of effort, trial, and error.
tabrischen 12y ago
Really great write up of a well thought-out design and iteration process. Bookmarked for future reference.
disdev 12y ago
Best line from the write-up: It combined three of my passions: running, photography, and getting attention. Great design!
- the_cat_kittles 12y ago
  I love that line too- somehow being honest and upfront about something thats "taboo" to like makes it totally fine with me
dschwartz88 12y ago
I realize that this took a huge amount of time, so asking for an open source version of this might be asking a bit much. But, I would absolutely be willing to pay for a SaaS product, or a licensing fee for the code. It's absolutely beautiful, and as someone who does this in a gross spreadsheet, moving to something like this would be unbelievable.
- carsonm 12y ago
  Yes, package this up for me in a SaaS, teach me the lifestyle, and then please take my money.
- dclowd9901 12y ago
  That was my first thought as well. If the author's not currently working on such a product, they should absolutely get on it.
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- andrewcross 12y ago
  +1 for being will to pay for a SaaS version of this.
- joshdance 12y ago
  Considering most people are casual observers 3 comments about paying for this is a positive signal. vpj should just throw up a landing page asking for money and start building. :)
  - vpj 12y ago
    I am not the designer, I just shared the link. Author: https://twitter.com/aprilzero https://twitter.com/aprilzero
- nilved 12y ago
  > I realize that this took a huge amount of time, so asking for an open source version of this might be asking a bit much. What's this to mean? Linux and gcc took much more time from many more developers. Licensing isn't a function of your investment into the project, it's a function of how the project will best benefit the world.
ryanmickle 12y ago
Turned out gorgeous, really well done, Anand.
skizm 12y ago
Wow, what do you do for a living that you can travel so much?
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- reledi 12y ago
  You don't need a lot of money to travel.
  - skeletonjelly 12y ago
    True, but you should probably take a take a look at the above comment...
  - lectrick 12y ago
    You need a bit of money to travel to Tokyo on a whim, as detailed in one of his screenshotted chats.
  - zhng 12y ago
    traveling "costs" a lot. what must be given up in order to travel?
  - FireBeyond 12y ago
    No, but given the ballpark for a next day first class fare SFO to Tokyo is in the $10-20,000 one way range, that's not really true in this case.
- radicality 12y ago
  He also travels business/first and stays in 5* hotels (clicked something on the Explore tab). My guess is some kind of previous startup that sold well? Maybe his roommate can fill us in.
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oumph1 12y ago
Does anyone know what the USB Ultrasound transducer mentioned is called?
- elitrium 12y ago
  Judging from the screenshot, I believe it's made by BodyMetrix: http://www.amazon.com/BodyMetrix-Personal-Ultrasound-Body-Composition/dp/B006C3T68G http://www.amazon.com/BodyMetrix-Personal-Ultrasound-Body-Co...
  - PStamatiou 12y ago
    Yes that's the one he has (I'm his roommate)
    - cheapsteak 12y ago
      Oh hey I referenced your guide on Jekyll when I was setting up my own blog last year. ( thanks :) ) I'm kind of surprised that both of you are living in a roommate situation. How did you guys know each other?
      - PStamatiou 12y ago
        Always kind of knew of his work online for years. He eventually moved to SF a few years back. I wanted to hire him for my startup at the time but couldn't afford him, but we hung out a lot and eventually got a place with another friend
- dredwerker 12y ago
  Would be nice if someone could make an arduino/pi one :) off to hackaday to have a look. $495 is a bit steep for me.
nimish 12y ago
Would love to know how the animations were designed and implemented--they really add the extra wow factor.
- skeletonjelly 12y ago
  Combination of CSS3 transitions (blur, translation, glow) and d3 I think
stevofolife 12y ago
Amazing, I saw your website a few days ago and been studying it ever since.
markgarity 12y ago
Anand, you have SERIOUSLY outdone yourself on this one. I continue to aspire to attain frontend design chops as good as yours. I remember watching Iron Man with this guy in his apartment in LA while trying to convince him to move to SF. He took meticulous sketches and notes on the UI used in the film. I look at this, especially the initial circular ui, and see the culmination of those notes with amazing use of frontend technologies and near perfect 3rd party integrations. Well done, man. You are an inspiration to me.
- icantthinkofone 12y ago
  So you can answer the question. Who is Anand Sharma?
  - markgarity 12y ago
    Who is John Galt?
  - josephpmay 12y ago
    not op, but Anand was previously the head of design at Quizlet (a top ed-tech startup).
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basseq 12y ago
This is really amazing. A lot of thoughtful work went into this site, and it's great that he took the time to document the process and talk through it. Wow.
sixQuarks 12y ago
wow, incredible designer. What would it take to convince you to work with me?
Permit 12y ago
It's always impressive to see an individual with a really good eye for design and the technical chops to bring it to life alone. Building a site as beautiful as this must have left you inundated with job offers. It's really awesome!
nilved 12y ago
On Arch Linux using WebKit, this page doesn't load at all without JavaScript, and doesn't work at all with it. Can you fix the site or provide a text version?
- majurg 12y ago
  Pretty sure JS is the brunt of the visualizations, etc.
  - nilved 12y ago
    Definitely, but a well-made site will degrade gracefully. I digress though, because I'm okay with turning on JavaScript; the issue is that the page still doesn't react to scrolling.
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icantthinkofone 12y ago
While looking at all this, I can't help but keep asking, "Who is this guy?". I'm sure he's not some random web developer who thunk this up one day.
- alphakappa 12y ago
  Yes, where did this guy spring from? This is some great stuff!
- djloche 12y ago
  Not to diminish Anand's credibility at all - but why does he have to be anything other than some random web developer? Does everyone have to have some magical backstory to qualify to ship something great? The primary difference between Anand and 'some random web developer' is that he actually shipped. You can join this club too.
  - k-mcgrady 12y ago
    >> Does everyone have to have some magical backstory to qualify to ship something great? I was wondering the same as the parent and not because I thought there was a 'magical backstory' but because when someone ships something this good they have usually shipped something else you know of.
    - lukeholder 12y ago
      I disagree, a lot of people crate massively good work but never self promote. Not that he is self promoting, but the point stands producing high quality work does not mean fame.
      - ff7c11 12y ago
        Ok, but the lifestyle of just hoping on a plane somewhere to get into the mind of an explorer requires you to be getting funding from somewhere (though perhaps not dev work)
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lucaspiller 12y ago
Anyone know where you can get detailed blood tests like that in the UK? I'm guessing the NHS won't cough up for that every month...
- k-mcgrady 12y ago
  I know there are certain things you can pay the NHS to do (e.g. a friend had to get a full physical signed off by the doctor to participate in boxing and had to pay £20 for it). But then again blood tests are usually pretty slow even for people who need them so they may not want people paying and taking up resources.
smilefreak 12y ago
This is seriously an awesome and well executed concept. I am working in genetics lab that studies complex disease. Many of these diseases have many environmental component and there is much interest in investigating these so-called gene-environment interactions. Currently to investigate interactions between genes and the environment, we rely on patients to fill in questionnaires, which are problematic because people are inaccurate. Other more specific measurements are gathered with nurses taking blood, serum etc. I wonder whether this could be deployed in anyway in medical research, using the smartphones currently on the market.
- debt 12y ago
  This definitely would provide a visual hierarchy to view all the potential interactions, though I think your problem might be more hardware-related. I assume if you combined as many of these apps(Moves, Cardiio, Foursquare, etc.) into a single app(including peripherals like the USB ultrasound, which seems impossible right now) you could get close to a pretty accurate picture of a person's total gene interactions throughout the day. Also, the app would have to be running continuously in the background.
click170 12y ago
This page did not like loading on a mobile phone.
hexleo 12y ago
Amazing, the blog's owner is a designer? Full of modern sense. It's a good idea, combine many health apps and LBS apps data, display to user. It's done automatically?
Jonovono 12y ago
Dude!! Where is your Narrative clip? http://getnarrative.com/ http://getnarrative.com/
- exacube 12y ago
  You have to pay a subscription just to get your photos out of the clip!? I like the idea of the clip, but what a huge dealbreaker
  - Jonovono 12y ago
    hmm, as far as I know you just pay the $10 a year if you want to have your photos stored on the cloud, but if you are willing to store all them yourself you can do that. But i'll double check that!
    - hboon 12y ago
      You don't need the subscription if you just want to export the photos locally. But the subscription fee is $9/mth, not year.
      - Jonovono 12y ago
        Ah, thanks for the clarification!
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jjsz 12y ago
According to the previous discussion, he used, ignoring analytics and APIs: js (coffeescript), leaflet, d3 (mercator projection), jQuery, SASS, mapbox, jquery-pjax, python (django), individual animated state transitions with css, and webkit transitions. This is on another level. What extra resources on the side would one recommend following IDV for the Web [1], to close the gap? [1] http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.html http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.ht...
karl_gluck 12y ago
This is really amazing; on the desktop, the site looks fantastic and it is very interesting to browse. I learned way more about his travel history than probably necessary due to sheer interest. That said, it is completely unusable on the phone. Not just 'it looks weird' but completely broken. I can't navigate anything or even read the article linked here. -Firefox on Nexus 5
- dan1234 12y ago
  FWIW it looks very nice in Mobile Safari, maybe there's something Firefox doesn't support right now?
  - Excavator 12y ago
    More likely the issue is due to him using a ton of -webkit-prefixes for things that have been unprefixed for years in Firefox. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/aurora-16-is-out/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/aurora-16-is-out/
  - nailer 12y ago
    Photos page just crashed iOS on Ipad 3 completely, wpthink it mirth have been all the hexagons. First couple of pages look OK though.
throw564 12y ago
Just wondering. Which insurance supports monthly blood testing. Are thee reasonable private providers with reasonable charges?
- ejain 12y ago
  InsideTracker and WellnessFX are two companies that offer direct-to-consumer blood testing at somewhat reasonable prices. Another company called Cue [https://cue.me/ https://cue.me/] is working on a device that would let you do certain blood tests at home.
teekert 12y ago
I find it a bit strange that he is currently on Koh Tao and his latest run was 5 hrs ago in San Francisco? :)
Kiro 12y ago
I want to read the "How to setup Photoshop" article that's in the old version of the page but the link is dead. Where can I find it?
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kalvin 12y ago
This is SO well done. So, so impressive. A side question, for any doctors on HN-- I'm really curious, what do you think about the Blood Tests section? That is, the benefits of monthly blood testing. From talking to one earlier today about related topics (coincidentally!) I could imagine the following response: 1. The ideal ranges for each value on your blood test do not necessarily represent the ideal range for you personally -- and not only do they not necessarily represent the ideal range for you, if your number is outside them and you're otherwise asymptomatic, your number is likely already "healthy" (with very few major exceptions like blood pressure and cholesterol.) 2. So by doing this, you aren't actually tracking things that need to be improved, or rather, you have no way of knowing if you'd be "more healthy" by being within range 3. So, getting monthly blood tests is useless, and any changes detected would also be useless 4. (And as an aside, annual physicals for young healthy people are not beneficial (and can be harmful) to health) Is this right? Was I just talking to a curmudgeon? Tech-optimistic doctors, what do you think?
- davak 12y ago
  For normal people monthly lab testing would be overkill at best and dangerous at worse. The thing to remember about lab tests is that the "normals" are based on bell curves so approximately 1 out of 20 labs will be abnormal from this phenomena alone. The more labs you get, the more false abnormals you get. If each false abnormal gets worked up, you are talking a lot of additional testing and worry. Typical recommendations to test hypercholesterolemia is every 90 days at most if actively treating and then yearly once stable. To your aside, I think annual physicals are probably overkill, but primary care doctors are now expertly trained in screening for multiple issues that could affect young healthy folks. Seeing your PCP for a "well-person" visit every few years is a good idea. Most of the time the doctor isn't going to order labs and will just chat a bit, do a physical exam, and get you on your way. A good doctor will have informed opinions about your exercise and diet regimen, for example.
tisunov 12y ago
Such a thorough peek behind the curtains of his design decisions. And he definitely fueled my passion for travel and active lifestyle.
ivabz 12y ago
WOW. Appreciate the way it is build. But, So screwed up on IE10.
- joeyspn 12y ago
  Collateral damage...
  - Excavator 12y ago
    Don't have access to IE here but he's using a ton of -webkit- prefixing for things that are supported in other browsers since long ago. http://caniuse.com/transforms2d http://caniuse.com/transforms2d http://caniuse.com/css-transitions http://caniuse.com/css-transitions http://caniuse.com/css-animation http://caniuse.com/css-animation http://caniuse.com/css-gradients http://caniuse.com/css-gradients Must say all that -webkit- yellow on those pages is scary.
joeyspn 12y ago
This is an awesome work, really. The design style reminds me a lot of Eric Jordan's style (2advanced Studios) [0]. Not really a new style, but nice to see that Interaction Design with open technologies (HTML/JS/CSS) is arriving "there", where (believe or not) Flash was 10 years ago... I've been waiting for this moment for years. Hopefully this will set a new trend. [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANng1oTO2Zk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANng1oTO2Zk

445 points by vpj 12y ago

nacs 12y ago

Previous discussion of AprilZero (the site, not the making of): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024073

vxNsr 12y ago
You can actually track him hour to hour... kinda crazy that he's providing that, the site design is a little different than described I found myself clicking on things that weren't links and being sent places I didn't want to go because I'd click something that looked clickable but turned out not to be and clicking on unclickable things sends you back one step.

blueatlas 12y ago

This is a striking example of the amount of work and thought that goes into a design that presents rich data so clearly and cleanly. The casual visitor would likely never have an idea of what it took to build what they are looking at.

exogen 12y ago
Yes. It really shines a lot on the fact that those futuristic movie interfaces didn't just spring out of the computer by virtue of it being the future. And I'm not talking about the CGI folks who create those interfaces for the movie (although of course that's a lot of work, too) – I mean in the fictional movie universe, where did those UIs come from? Are we assuming that in the future, computers will be auto-generating all these sweet transitions and design details? It seems to me that it will always come about just like April Zero – through a LOT of effort, trial, and error.

tabrischen 12y ago

Really great write up of a well thought-out design and iteration process. Bookmarked for future reference.

disdev 12y ago

Best line from the write-up: It combined three of my passions: running, photography, and getting attention. Great design!

the_cat_kittles 12y ago
I love that line too- somehow being honest and upfront about something thats "taboo" to like makes it totally fine with me

dschwartz88 12y ago

I realize that this took a huge amount of time, so asking for an open source version of this might be asking a bit much. But, I would absolutely be willing to pay for a SaaS product, or a licensing fee for the code. It's absolutely beautiful, and as someone who does this in a gross spreadsheet, moving to something like this would be unbelievable.

carsonm 12y ago
Yes, package this up for me in a SaaS, teach me the lifestyle, and then please take my money.
dclowd9901 12y ago
That was my first thought as well. If the author's not currently working on such a product, they should absolutely get on it.
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andrewcross 12y ago
+1 for being will to pay for a SaaS version of this.
joshdance 12y ago
Considering most people are casual observers 3 comments about paying for this is a positive signal. vpj should just throw up a landing page asking for money and start building. :)
- vpj 12y ago
  I am not the designer, I just shared the link. Author: https://twitter.com/aprilzero https://twitter.com/aprilzero
nilved 12y ago
> I realize that this took a huge amount of time, so asking for an open source version of this might be asking a bit much. What's this to mean? Linux and gcc took much more time from many more developers. Licensing isn't a function of your investment into the project, it's a function of how the project will best benefit the world.

ryanmickle 12y ago

Turned out gorgeous, really well done, Anand.

skizm 12y ago

Wow, what do you do for a living that you can travel so much?

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reledi 12y ago
You don't need a lot of money to travel.
- skeletonjelly 12y ago
  True, but you should probably take a take a look at the above comment...
- lectrick 12y ago
  You need a bit of money to travel to Tokyo on a whim, as detailed in one of his screenshotted chats.
- zhng 12y ago
  traveling "costs" a lot. what must be given up in order to travel?
- FireBeyond 12y ago
  No, but given the ballpark for a next day first class fare SFO to Tokyo is in the $10-20,000 one way range, that's not really true in this case.
radicality 12y ago
He also travels business/first and stays in 5* hotels (clicked something on the Explore tab). My guess is some kind of previous startup that sold well? Maybe his roommate can fill us in.
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oumph1 12y ago

Does anyone know what the USB Ultrasound transducer mentioned is called?

elitrium 12y ago
Judging from the screenshot, I believe it's made by BodyMetrix: http://www.amazon.com/BodyMetrix-Personal-Ultrasound-Body-Composition/dp/B006C3T68G http://www.amazon.com/BodyMetrix-Personal-Ultrasound-Body-Co...
- PStamatiou 12y ago
  Yes that's the one he has (I'm his roommate)
  - cheapsteak 12y ago
    Oh hey I referenced your guide on Jekyll when I was setting up my own blog last year. ( thanks :) ) I'm kind of surprised that both of you are living in a roommate situation. How did you guys know each other?
    - PStamatiou 12y ago
      Always kind of knew of his work online for years. He eventually moved to SF a few years back. I wanted to hire him for my startup at the time but couldn't afford him, but we hung out a lot and eventually got a place with another friend
dredwerker 12y ago
Would be nice if someone could make an arduino/pi one :) off to hackaday to have a look. $495 is a bit steep for me.

nimish 12y ago

Would love to know how the animations were designed and implemented--they really add the extra wow factor.

skeletonjelly 12y ago
Combination of CSS3 transitions (blur, translation, glow) and d3 I think

stevofolife 12y ago

Amazing, I saw your website a few days ago and been studying it ever since.

markgarity 12y ago

Anand, you have SERIOUSLY outdone yourself on this one. I continue to aspire to attain frontend design chops as good as yours. I remember watching Iron Man with this guy in his apartment in LA while trying to convince him to move to SF. He took meticulous sketches and notes on the UI used in the film. I look at this, especially the initial circular ui, and see the culmination of those notes with amazing use of frontend technologies and near perfect 3rd party integrations. Well done, man. You are an inspiration to me.

icantthinkofone 12y ago
So you can answer the question. Who is Anand Sharma?
- markgarity 12y ago
  Who is John Galt?
- josephpmay 12y ago
  not op, but Anand was previously the head of design at Quizlet (a top ed-tech startup).
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basseq 12y ago

This is really amazing. A lot of thoughtful work went into this site, and it's great that he took the time to document the process and talk through it. Wow.

sixQuarks 12y ago

wow, incredible designer. What would it take to convince you to work with me?

Permit 12y ago

It's always impressive to see an individual with a really good eye for design and the technical chops to bring it to life alone. Building a site as beautiful as this must have left you inundated with job offers. It's really awesome!

nilved 12y ago

On Arch Linux using WebKit, this page doesn't load at all without JavaScript, and doesn't work at all with it. Can you fix the site or provide a text version?

majurg 12y ago
Pretty sure JS is the brunt of the visualizations, etc.
- nilved 12y ago
  Definitely, but a well-made site will degrade gracefully. I digress though, because I'm okay with turning on JavaScript; the issue is that the page still doesn't react to scrolling.
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icantthinkofone 12y ago

While looking at all this, I can't help but keep asking, "Who is this guy?". I'm sure he's not some random web developer who thunk this up one day.

alphakappa 12y ago
Yes, where did this guy spring from? This is some great stuff!
djloche 12y ago
Not to diminish Anand's credibility at all - but why does he have to be anything other than some random web developer? Does everyone have to have some magical backstory to qualify to ship something great? The primary difference between Anand and 'some random web developer' is that he actually shipped. You can join this club too.
- k-mcgrady 12y ago
  >> Does everyone have to have some magical backstory to qualify to ship something great? I was wondering the same as the parent and not because I thought there was a 'magical backstory' but because when someone ships something this good they have usually shipped something else you know of.
  - lukeholder 12y ago
    I disagree, a lot of people crate massively good work but never self promote. Not that he is self promoting, but the point stands producing high quality work does not mean fame.
    - ff7c11 12y ago
      Ok, but the lifestyle of just hoping on a plane somewhere to get into the mind of an explorer requires you to be getting funding from somewhere (though perhaps not dev work)
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lucaspiller 12y ago

Anyone know where you can get detailed blood tests like that in the UK? I'm guessing the NHS won't cough up for that every month...

k-mcgrady 12y ago
I know there are certain things you can pay the NHS to do (e.g. a friend had to get a full physical signed off by the doctor to participate in boxing and had to pay £20 for it). But then again blood tests are usually pretty slow even for people who need them so they may not want people paying and taking up resources.

smilefreak 12y ago

This is seriously an awesome and well executed concept. I am working in genetics lab that studies complex disease. Many of these diseases have many environmental component and there is much interest in investigating these so-called gene-environment interactions. Currently to investigate interactions between genes and the environment, we rely on patients to fill in questionnaires, which are problematic because people are inaccurate. Other more specific measurements are gathered with nurses taking blood, serum etc. I wonder whether this could be deployed in anyway in medical research, using the smartphones currently on the market.

debt 12y ago
This definitely would provide a visual hierarchy to view all the potential interactions, though I think your problem might be more hardware-related. I assume if you combined as many of these apps(Moves, Cardiio, Foursquare, etc.) into a single app(including peripherals like the USB ultrasound, which seems impossible right now) you could get close to a pretty accurate picture of a person's total gene interactions throughout the day. Also, the app would have to be running continuously in the background.

click170 12y ago

This page did not like loading on a mobile phone.

hexleo 12y ago

Amazing, the blog's owner is a designer? Full of modern sense. It's a good idea, combine many health apps and LBS apps data, display to user. It's done automatically?

Jonovono 12y ago

Dude!! Where is your Narrative clip? http://getnarrative.com/ http://getnarrative.com/

exacube 12y ago
You have to pay a subscription just to get your photos out of the clip!? I like the idea of the clip, but what a huge dealbreaker
- Jonovono 12y ago
  hmm, as far as I know you just pay the $10 a year if you want to have your photos stored on the cloud, but if you are willing to store all them yourself you can do that. But i'll double check that!
  - hboon 12y ago
    You don't need the subscription if you just want to export the photos locally. But the subscription fee is $9/mth, not year.
    - Jonovono 12y ago
      Ah, thanks for the clarification!
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jjsz 12y ago

According to the previous discussion, he used, ignoring analytics and APIs: js (coffeescript), leaflet, d3 (mercator projection), jQuery, SASS, mapbox, jquery-pjax, python (django), individual animated state transitions with css, and webkit transitions. This is on another level. What extra resources on the side would one recommend following IDV for the Web [1], to close the gap? [1] http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.html http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.ht...

karl_gluck 12y ago

This is really amazing; on the desktop, the site looks fantastic and it is very interesting to browse. I learned way more about his travel history than probably necessary due to sheer interest. That said, it is completely unusable on the phone. Not just 'it looks weird' but completely broken. I can't navigate anything or even read the article linked here. -Firefox on Nexus 5

dan1234 12y ago
FWIW it looks very nice in Mobile Safari, maybe there's something Firefox doesn't support right now?
- Excavator 12y ago
  More likely the issue is due to him using a ton of -webkit-prefixes for things that have been unprefixed for years in Firefox. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/aurora-16-is-out/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/aurora-16-is-out/
- nailer 12y ago
  Photos page just crashed iOS on Ipad 3 completely, wpthink it mirth have been all the hexagons. First couple of pages look OK though.

throw564 12y ago

Just wondering. Which insurance supports monthly blood testing. Are thee reasonable private providers with reasonable charges?

ejain 12y ago
InsideTracker and WellnessFX are two companies that offer direct-to-consumer blood testing at somewhat reasonable prices. Another company called Cue [https://cue.me/ https://cue.me/] is working on a device that would let you do certain blood tests at home.

teekert 12y ago

I find it a bit strange that he is currently on Koh Tao and his latest run was 5 hrs ago in San Francisco? :)

Kiro 12y ago

I want to read the "How to setup Photoshop" article that's in the old version of the page but the link is dead. Where can I find it?

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kalvin 12y ago

This is SO well done. So, so impressive. A side question, for any doctors on HN-- I'm really curious, what do you think about the Blood Tests section? That is, the benefits of monthly blood testing. From talking to one earlier today about related topics (coincidentally!) I could imagine the following response: 1. The ideal ranges for each value on your blood test do not necessarily represent the ideal range for you personally -- and not only do they not necessarily represent the ideal range for you, if your number is outside them and you're otherwise asymptomatic, your number is likely already "healthy" (with very few major exceptions like blood pressure and cholesterol.) 2. So by doing this, you aren't actually tracking things that need to be improved, or rather, you have no way of knowing if you'd be "more healthy" by being within range 3. So, getting monthly blood tests is useless, and any changes detected would also be useless 4. (And as an aside, annual physicals for young healthy people are not beneficial (and can be harmful) to health) Is this right? Was I just talking to a curmudgeon? Tech-optimistic doctors, what do you think?

davak 12y ago
For normal people monthly lab testing would be overkill at best and dangerous at worse. The thing to remember about lab tests is that the "normals" are based on bell curves so approximately 1 out of 20 labs will be abnormal from this phenomena alone. The more labs you get, the more false abnormals you get. If each false abnormal gets worked up, you are talking a lot of additional testing and worry. Typical recommendations to test hypercholesterolemia is every 90 days at most if actively treating and then yearly once stable. To your aside, I think annual physicals are probably overkill, but primary care doctors are now expertly trained in screening for multiple issues that could affect young healthy folks. Seeing your PCP for a "well-person" visit every few years is a good idea. Most of the time the doctor isn't going to order labs and will just chat a bit, do a physical exam, and get you on your way. A good doctor will have informed opinions about your exercise and diet regimen, for example.

tisunov 12y ago

Such a thorough peek behind the curtains of his design decisions. And he definitely fueled my passion for travel and active lifestyle.

ivabz 12y ago

WOW. Appreciate the way it is build. But, So screwed up on IE10.

joeyspn 12y ago
Collateral damage...
- Excavator 12y ago
  Don't have access to IE here but he's using a ton of -webkit- prefixing for things that are supported in other browsers since long ago. http://caniuse.com/transforms2d http://caniuse.com/transforms2d http://caniuse.com/css-transitions http://caniuse.com/css-transitions http://caniuse.com/css-animation http://caniuse.com/css-animation http://caniuse.com/css-gradients http://caniuse.com/css-gradients Must say all that -webkit- yellow on those pages is scary.

joeyspn 12y ago

This is an awesome work, really. The design style reminds me a lot of Eric Jordan's style (2advanced Studios) [0]. Not really a new style, but nice to see that Interaction Design with open technologies (HTML/JS/CSS) is arriving "there", where (believe or not) Flash was 10 years ago... I've been waiting for this moment for years. Hopefully this will set a new trend. [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANng1oTO2Zk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANng1oTO2Zk