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by lynaghk 9y ago
Thanks! I should also say that I think CSS is great --- there's nothing like trying to come up with your own solution to make you appreciate the tradeoffs that other folks have made. We had the advantage of starting from scratch in a m
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by lynaghk 9y ago
Check it out, and if it doesn't work for your team we'd be happy to issue a refund. Re: WYSIWYG CSS, we initially started w/ flexbox but things like the difference between margins, padding, and absolute positioning confused t
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by lynaghk 9y ago
Hi HN, author here (along with RyLuke). We launched Subform on Kickstarter in 2016, but are just now opening up our beta to the public. Subform's focus is on layout. Dynamic layout systems are pretty functionally complex, but creating
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Show HN: Subform, a UI layout tool(subformapp.com)
219 points by lynaghk 9y ago|61 comments
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by lynaghk 11y ago
I'm the author of C2, and you're exactly right. React provides everything that C2's underlying DOM manipulation library ( https://github.com/lynaghk/singult/ ) does. React is faster, capable with more
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by lynaghk 11y ago
I bought a ShopBot Desktop with a spindle, and it cost about $8,000. I decided that I wanted to focus on my phone project, rather than on trying to get a cheaper/homemade machine to work properly. (It's the same reason I bought an
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by lynaghk 11y ago
I used Autodesk Inventor w/ HSMWorks for the physical enclosure (both packages have 30 day free trials). For the PCB, I tried using Eagle (very tedious / confusing) and KiCAD (couldn't figure out how to install on OS X withou
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by lynaghk 11y ago
Photos of two current phone designs and PCBs are here: https://twitter.com/lynaghk/status/632937349458956288
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by lynaghk 11y ago
I gave this talk. Slides are here: https://keminglabs.com/talks/#bangbangcon2015 I'll post some photos of the current version and more details on my twitter (@lynaghk) tomorrow (in 10 hours). Software is all on an
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by lynaghk 12y ago
Stephen Few has an excellent overview of why pie charts should be avoided: http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intel... Neither pies nor mosaic charts should be used if you need exact readings of the
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Mosaic plots: responsive, flexbox-based parts-to-whole visualizations(keminglabs.com)
25 points by lynaghk 12y ago|5 comments
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by lynaghk 12y ago
Full rewrite of The Weathertron iOS app ( http://theweathertron.com/ ) from Angular.js + ClojureScript to React.js + ClojureScript. The original Weathertron is still runnin' happily for about 40,000 iOS users from a sing
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by lynaghk 13y ago
Are you referring to this example: https://variancecharts.com/examples/bar_grouped/ ? I tend to prefer horizontal bar to vertical bar charts for English graphics because the label text reads left-to-right, making
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by lynaghk 13y ago
Variance is currently built on Angular, but that's not part of the public API contract. It's very likely that at a future point we will whip up a faster/leaner DOM compiler and drop 100kB of Angular features that Variance doe
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by lynaghk 13y ago
We haven't exposed it on the site yet, but if you have an existing Angular.js app then you can import Variance as an Angular module for a cost of about 34kB. Email variancecharts@generalreactives.com and we can get you squared away.
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by lynaghk 13y ago
We have some stuff planned, but nothing on a firm timeline. That said, remember that Variance was designed to embrace HTML and CSS. You want hover effects? Use a plain ol' CSS selector. If you want something more elaborate, you can def
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by lynaghk 13y ago
Variance, like Vega, draws a ton from Wilkinson's "Grammar of Graphics". In particular I wanted something like Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 R library, but on the web. I toyed with the idea of an explicit data format that cou
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by lynaghk 13y ago
Variance is production-oriented which, for data visualization, requires a ton of the "designer interface" as much as it does from the "developer/analyst interface". The CSS is broken out into necessary structural bi
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by lynaghk 13y ago
No apology necessary, as there isn't a useful distinction between "form" and "substance" here = ) My dev background is in the Clojure community, where Rich sets a strong tone about the importance of discussing trade
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by lynaghk 13y ago
Hi, developer lead here. Variance is not built on D3; we're using some of the scale code, but that's it. In fact, variance-standalone.min.js is about 10kB smaller compared to current d3.min.js = )
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by lynaghk 13y ago
Neither of them were released when we started development. Also, I tend to think that it's better to explicitly manipulate JavaScript data structures through ClojureScript than try to build some potentially leaky abstractions on top of
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by lynaghk 13y ago
Yep; the app is packaged up for distribution via PhoneGap, and we're also using its geolocation shims.
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by lynaghk 13y ago
One of the app authors here; The Weathertron uses the backend API provided by the forecast.io guys (who also do the DarkSky app).
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by lynaghk 13y ago
Yep, it's about 1200 lines of ClojureScript and 2000 lines of SASS, packaged up for distribution via PhoneGap. We will probably cut an android version soon.
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Building an iOS weather app with Angular and ClojureScript(keminglabs.com)
58 points by lynaghk 13y ago|12 comments
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by lynaghk 14y ago
There's no webserver built into C2. The visual REPL is a separate (toy) project. To use within Clojure, just add c2 to your deps as usual and then (ns your-ns (:use [c2.core :only [unify!]])) Use from within ClojureScript is
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by lynaghk 14y ago
We needed it working on the JVM. Also, it wasn't clear how to wrap D3's functions in a consistent way w.r.t. data handling. For instance, D3 has a histogram calculator that will bin your data--should that return a Clojure map/vector (so you
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by lynaghk 14y ago
I've talked with Hadley about this at length = ) There's a benefit to working in Hadley's / Wilkinson's grammar, but the tradeoff is that it obscures the underlying DOM representation (or R's graphics subsystem, as the case may be). ggplot
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by lynaghk 14y ago
I agree with you 100% re: mixing generic styling (i.e., the bar height/color) with the actual data-driven attributes (the bar width). The styling is just inlined in these demos because I wanted something that worked immediately out of the b
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by lynaghk 14y ago
C2 isn't a charting library; it's a collection of composable primitives for building statistical graphics. There are some built in helpers---scales, axis templates, and the tick-selection algorithm---that would make it pretty easy to build

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