Major issue is that reaching their support is next to impossible. Payment for my domain is not going through and now I am waiting for my domain to get expired and be available in market again, so that I can buy it from other vendor.
I actually go via reverse route. Often times I would find something of interest on HN or Reddit which would make me feel excited.
Then to fulfil the curiosity I would often read lot of blogs, articles on same topic. If I still feel that I am still not satisfied then I pick book on the topic.
I usually read around 20 books in an year and all are shortlisted [1] as per the above method. Last 3 books that I have read
- Code Breakers (I found the mRNA vaccine and gene editing fascinating)
- How the world really works (To really understand that if the green future is really possible)
- Natural Language Processing in Action (To understand how text models like GPT-3 really works
I started my blog after procrastinating for 5 years. I was in the perfection loop of how I will host it using SSR and Github Actions and all those things that will lure any developer. One day I just hosted Ghost on Digital Ocean Droplet and started publishing things from my emails and notebook.
Writing is a way for me to clear out my head, I usually scribble a lot in my notepad and recently in Obsidian. From past one year, I also share the things out in public on my blog - https://binaryho.me/
The traffic is < 5 daily users but that's not discouraging as I find peace in writing.
This is neat and reminds me of R2D3 articles [1], how are these visualisations made? I know the hard way is hand-coding every aspect with D3, is there any simple framework that helps out in creating visual stories like these?
Each article's specific resources are listed at the bottom of the articles, but you're right - right now the articles are made using D3, IntersectionObserver API (for scrolling), and vanilla js.
Newer articles use svelte instead of vanilla js, for the following reasons: declarative markup makes constructing charts easier, component-scoped styles make collaboration easier, reactivity allows easy sharing of events between charts, and responsiveness is much, much easier (reactive width/height).
No simple framework exists yet per se, they pretty much all require getting down and dirty on the dataviz side of things. That said, there is some good progress on the interactive article side, the best of which I can think of is Matthew Conlen's Idyll: https://idyll-lang.org/docs
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
It's difficult to build strong opinions on a topic. Mostly we go with the safe opinions that are acceptable by society.
And problem comes up when we mix belief, perspective, facts and opinions.
