Readit Newschromy commented on Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine byte.tsundoku.io... · Posted by u/chromy
This is amazing -- thank you for building this! Amusingly, I too ended up searching for British computers -- there's a good article here on the Cantabrian explosion here. https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198301-042
Oh interesting, thank you! I live in Cambridge an often walk past the Sinclair building but I had not heard of Lynx or Ace which are also based in familiar places! https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198301-050
chromy commented on Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)? · Posted by u/troupo
https://ui.perfetto.dev/ is also good in this line.
heh, I worked on that one so I didn't feel like I should put it. I'm happy you thought of it though.
chromy commented on Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)? · Posted by u/troupo
As someone who recently tried to use Blender for an extremely simple task... Blender's UI is absolutely terrible and should not be used as an example of anything except how to design an unintuitive UI.
I think intuitiveness and density are orthogonal properties (although often both desirable).
Regarding Blender specifically:
Do you have a background in 3D modeling?
I am genuinely curious.
I don't come from an digital art background and I bounced off Blenders UI several times but after doing a tutorial or two now I find I can use it for simple things. I have always wondered how much it was 3D modeling in general vs. Blender specifically.
In a similar case I have used both Inkscape and Illustrator as an amateur and, much as I love open source, there is no comparison. Illustrator was significantly easier to use and worked better.
chromy commented on Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)? · Posted by u/troupo
Look for tracing/profiling/binary analysis UIs:
- https://superuser.com/questions/1117466/using-windows-perfor...
- https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy
- https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
3D modeling / CAD software:
- Blender/Rhino etc
- Similar for audio you can search for 'DAWs' (https://blog.landr.com/best-daw/)
Many examples on https://x.com/usgraphics/media only some software.
Not on the data side but can be useful just for contrast from todays software:
Found the following zoom levels:
0. byte (Deep Zoom Image) (868480 x 453747 pixels, 376956 tiles)
...
I think, I'll skip downloading this
pdfs/ 12.5 GiB
pages/ 91.96 GiB (Each page as a .png)
text/ 365.03 MiB (Each page as text)
byte_files/ 55.98 GiB (The 1024x1024 tiles as .jpeg)
I had not heard of https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify-rs before, that's really cool!