MVmv9·Jul 6, 2020Submission
Idyll Lang – Create explorable explanations and interactive essays
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idyll
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idyll-lang / idyll
idyll
Create explorable explanations and interactive essays.
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Create explorable explanations and interactive essays.
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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5 sourcesIt seems like it's limited to one update every second.
Perhaps it's a limitation of Idyll[1], which was used to make this. Although I'd guess these parts are done in D3.
[1]: https://github.com/idyll-lang/idyll
In Show HN: How to Tune a GuitarI'm a big fan of Idyll, especially how easy it is to get started with. Here's a screenshot of something I made not more than 20 minutes after first seeing it [1].
Also, can I put in a plug for nearley [2], the parsing library that Idyll uses? The Idyll parser is here [3].
[1] https://imgur.com/a/5I143
[2] http://nearley.js.org
[3] https://github.com/idyll-lang/idyll/blob/master/packages/idy...
In Idyll Language – Author interactive narratives for the webWe are in the process of adding compile time logic, which will hopefully enable more use cases like this. (so you could e.g. run a database query at compile time and use that to populate the page). happy to ping you once this is landed, or you can follow the progress here https://github.com/idyll-lang/idyll/issues/70
In Idyll: Interactive Document LanguageIt doesn't have to be a full project, right? Do random drive-by PR-requests to open-source projects count?
A few months ago I ended up scratching an optimisation itch for weeks, trying to figure out ways to make the lz-string[0][1] library faster and smaller. Near the end I went a bit nuts with trying out what works, methinks (nested trees built out of arrays and such), but I had a lot of fun.
It's not even my library, nor did my PR request get accepted/rejected yet. It did however make the compression up to 2x to 10x faster, depending on how well the data compresses.
And hey, I now have an intuitive understanding of LZ compression that I never thought I'd have!
Since a few days I've been working on writing a component for idyll[2] that lets you embed p5js sketches[3]. Progress here[4][5].
[0] http://pieroxy.net/blog/pages/lz-string/index