@visnup profile picture
Visnu Pitiyanuvath @visnup

@observablehq, @wafflejs, trackyourhappiness; previously: @opendoor, @square, @nodeknockout

Joined May 2007
  • Tweets 7,374
  • Following 626
  • Followers 1,422
531 Photos and videos
new interview question: tell me about a time when chatgpt gave you the wrong answer? how did you find out? what did you do then?
1
2
13
1,737
Reviewing my earliest tweets and they read like my college application essays. So cringey.
4
could be a Sol LeWitt: "lines of 1-inch length, drawn vertically along a horizontal row, spaced mostly at regular intervals. repeat 20 rows down the wall."
So many symmetries en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpa…

Wallpaper group - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org
1
eschersket.ch is rad

Eschersketch

A symmetry drawing tool

eschersket.ch
1
observablehq.com/@visnup/ran…

Random walk, p4m symmetry

Like https://eschersket.ch Exploring dynamically generating playing card backs for Poker. Pretty sure this is the p4m wallpaper group…

observablehq.com
2
Earthquake!
1
3
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqua…

1
Got a PR merged into @nextjs. So, immediately wondering when the next patch version or canary would release. Analysis says: less than a week for a canary and 1-3 weeks for a patch release. observablehq.com/@visnup/nex…

Next.js release frequency

How often does Next.js release a new version? I fixed a bug in Next.js recently, so of course the immediate question in my head was “when’s the next release going to be?” All versions by time Let’s...

observablehq.com
5
#dalle labs.openai.com/s/Z8LSPsDDyD…
Was on a computer textbook page on Amazon recently and WOW weird nostalgia hit… I had to find my first Amazon order, ever: "Last purchased Dec 27, 1997". I paid $55.30 plus $7.95 for SHIPPING AND HANDLING.😮 WHAT SUCKER PAYS FOR SHIPPING AND HANDLING? (no tax though…😉)
1
5
Shopping history from 2000 is great too. Thought I'd learn Perl and master some regexes.
2
4
I think people like when I do this? I started following up instinctual technical opinions I give with what I'm using in my brain as inputs and where the threshold changes to those inputs are that would change my opinion.
2
Jane has some boxes of HTTP status codes ready to go. If you want to see the 402 one you’ll have to send payment. And I can’t find what was in the 404 one.
3
Visnu Pitiyanuvath retweeted
TOoᴼᵒº˙⁰0₀ₒ.·ph
@tophtucker
6 Jul 2022
Old sketch w/ @visnup: how Chatterjee correlation compares to Pearson observablehq.com/@tophtucker…
1
3
the thing is, with this one, everyone can totally picture it happening. fits 100% within everyone's expectations.
1
didn't realize it was so easy to get data for a spectrogram using the Web Audio API observablehq.com/@visnup/spe…

🎤 Spectrogram

A spectrogram view of your microphone input. Try saying “Yanny” or “Laurel”. Or whistle. Or make “th” or “ss” sounds. Compare to an oscilloscope. Grab frequency domain audio data and write it to a...

observablehq.com
6
Visnu Pitiyanuvath retweeted
Mike Bostock@mbostock
8 Jun 2022
Observable Plot 0.5 is here! 🎉 github.com/observablehq/plot…

3
15
112
Visnu Pitiyanuvath retweeted
Observable@observablehq
4 May 2022
✨ To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of Observable Plot and #MayThe4th, we use #dataviz to explore @StarWars movie scripts. ✨ #starwars observablehq.com/@observable…
10
32
What if once a file ends with _final, you can’t copy, change, nor rename it and they all share one namespace on your computer no matter what directory it was in?
3
Load more