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chromy commented on Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine   byte.tsundoku.io... · Posted by u/chromy
Eriks · 7 days ago
dezoomify-rs https://byte.tsundoku.io/byte_files/10/0_0.jpg

Found the following zoom levels:

0. byte (Deep Zoom Image) (868480 x 453747 pixels, 376956 tiles)

...

I think, I'll skip downloading this

chromy · 7 days ago
Yes it's a fair amount of data:

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!

chromy commented on Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine   byte.tsundoku.io... · Posted by u/chromy
dannyobrien · 7 days ago
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
chromy · 7 days ago
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
flakiness · 4 months ago
https://ui.perfetto.dev/ is also good in this line.
chromy · 4 months ago
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
wackget · 4 months ago
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.
chromy · 4 months ago
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
chromy · 4 months ago
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:

- https://www.zachtronics.com/wmp-skins/

- https://cari.institute/aesthetics

chromy commented on Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries   rahulilango.com/coloring/... · Posted by u/MCSP
chromy · a year ago
The Republic of Ireland (the west most region on the first page) isn't part of the United Kingdom. The term for the group of regions shown is 'the British Isles'. See https://qntm.org/uk While it seems like a trivial distinction the whole thing is somewhat fraught (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles).
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