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I’ve been playing around with map visualisations a fair bit again recently, both using JS libraries like D3.js for interactive ones, and the R Project for non-interactive static ones. I’ve also been using LLM/AI agents a bit for help - especially with R, which I have no previous experience with (and LLMs being pretty good at ‘gathering’ information from various manpages and examples in their training data). I had previously implemented a basic interactive globe visualisation with Three.js…

Went out to see the partial solar eclipse this evening… Quite a lot of other people were out and about with their cars parked on the sides of the roads in the countryside, presumably doing the same thing.

I recently bought an Evoworks Evo80 mechanical keyboard following a recommendation to me after I was looking for a new decent keyboard, having been using a very cheap / budget Kensington one I got as a ‘placeholder’ since needing a new desktop keyboard after I got back to the UK (I actually didn’t need one until December, as I was only using my laptops until then). I was after a UK / ISO one, as that was my preference: I do much prefer the larger Enter key of the ISO layout, but I have learnt…

Now that I’m commuting regularly again using UK public transport, given the occasional (at least so far for me on the days I commute!) delays and cancellations to services that tend to happen, I was looking for a simple iOS app or website that would allow me to very easily see at a glance what the trains for the next hour or so looked like in terms of possible delays or cancellations. There are a plethora of train and transport apps out there for iOS - and similarly there are many websites…