Author or contributor? Great work, by the way, I love such shows
Wrote it 14 years ago! https://github.com/mourner/suncalc/ It's a bit neglected but I'll do some upkeep shortly...
Readit Newsmourner commented on Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient sky.dlazaro.ca... · Posted by u/dlazaro
mourner commented on Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient sky.dlazaro.ca... · Posted by u/dlazaro
Author of Suncalc here — this is exactly the kind of stuff I love to see my code being used in, thanks for sharing!
mourner commented on Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview observablehq.com/notebook... · Posted by u/mbostock
The updated syntax looks brilliant — can't wait to try it out by upgrading some of my older notebooks! I was worried about the future of Observable since the Canvas announcement — it felt like notebooks were being slowly phased out, but I'm glad to be proven wrong.
Any timeline on bringing the new format to the Web editor? For me, the biggest draw of Observable is being able to instantly start exploring and visualizing some data without ANY setup (creating some local files, installing dependencies, launching a dev server etc.) — just click "New notebook" and off you go, frictionless. I hope this remains a priority.
Also worth mentioning the data viz community aspect, which I used to enjoy a ton — it's a bummer that things like being able to follow certain users and see their new notebooks in a feed were phased out, and that trending notebooks are now hidden under the Help menu instead of being featured on the user's homepage. This might be one of the reasons I stopped coming back to the platform as often, although I realize building a community is very difficult and hard to monetize — just thought I'd share.
mourner commented on Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org blog.openstreetmap.org/20... · Posted by u/ikawe
In case you wonder how much time / resources it takes to generate vector tiles, I'm running benchmarks with Tilemaker here for https://cartes.app
Also worth checking out https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler, which maybe a bit less mature, but is much faster than Tilemaker.
mourner commented on Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover standardebooks.org... · Posted by u/tosh
Editor-in-chief here, happy to answer any questions, as always. We also recently celebrated Public Domain Day with an especially notable crop of books, including The Sound and the Fury, All Quiet on the Western Front, John Steinbeck's first novel, some Hemingway, Gandhi, two Dashiell Hammett novels, and more: https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2025
Wonderful project! One thing I wish the website would have is being able to find the right book to read out of this enormous list — e.g. showing / sorting by Goodreads ratings (which I realize you might not want to do), or at least having some kind of a "Featured" section with the most critically acclaimed / must read books of the project on one page.
mourner commented on Skype Credit is no longer available skype.com/en/credit/... · Posted by u/tlyleung
Has any popular service disappeared overnight quite like Skype? It was common to set up Skype calls with friends/relatives as late as 2018-2019. Starting 2020 people would laugh at you if you even suggested it. What happened?
I used it extensively until Microsoft did that absolutely atrocious “redesign” that tried turning it from a messenger into a flashy social app, making it an unusable ugly mess. Telegram was just starting to grow but I had to switch.
The problem with map projections in the digital age is what works well on world scale doesn't on street scale and vice versa. As explained in detail in this post: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/adaptive-projections
mourner commented on Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site old.reddit.com/r/webdev/c... · Posted by u/laubonghaudoi
I use BunnyCDN to host several sites, they have a minimum cost of $1 per month and I usually pay $1 per month.
I run my sites [0] on Hugo and copy the generated sites (Makefile) to BunnyCDN with their command line tool.
It's a plain CDN, but does include DNS hosting for easy SSL certificates and has scriptable DNS [1] where you can run Javascript for dynamic DNS.
I went with them b/c they are in the EU, but I've stayed because I love them.
[0] e.g. https://www.amazingcto.com/
Love Bunny too, wonderful service and great team. I wish there'd be an easy way to set up auto-deploy to Bunny Edge Storage on GitHub commit (to avoid doing so manually), but I guess it's not to hard to do through GitHub Actions.
I know that you deeply know map tech :-) but if I may make a suggestion - you might consider switching from Google Maps to Protomaps? https://github.com/protomaps/protomaps-leaflet
Cheers