I've thought before about trying to render skies on the web as a series of gradients overlaid on top of one another. I expect I could have had some level of success and gotten some mediocre results, but it would be nothing compared to what you've created.

Thank you so much for sharing this; it's inspirational, must have taken you a very long time to put together, and I'm blown away by your results.

  
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^I find that turn of phrase to be particularly pleasing in this context.

Parsing dates with anything other than fromisoformat feels totally backwards in comparison. We were using ciso8601 until fromisoformat was in the standard library. And now things are incredibly simple and reliable.

I've curated a list of 500+ critically acclaimed albums, which I continue to add to as the Mercury Prize nominees are announced each year, Rough Trade releases its albums of the year, etc.

It picks 12 a day and that's that; it's the same 12 for everyone. If you see something familiar, you might want to go for that. Or if you're in the mood for something new & different, you can give something unknown a try.

I suppose I was thinking about the app responsible for getting the data into, say, Leaflet's local database in the first place. For that app, the data structures you describe are the APIs that it consumes, for the sole purpose of populating its own database.

That gets my cogs whirring about how good a use-case this would be for SQLite. I suppose it would be somewhat appropriate for a small, private, PDS? Although, if I understand correctly, I wouldn't need to worry about that anyway if I'm using some off-the shelf PDS software, e.g. https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting

To your "This is not done by hitting an API" point; if I understand correctly, I'd argue that the _endpoints_ that you detail in your post _are_ the API. The whole point is that there's no single _central_ API, but each server that wants to be part of the network participates by hosting an API that meets the standard outlined in the protocol.

In a way it's semantics, but I'd be interested in yours thoughts on that. To either correct or confirm my understanding.

That's not true. A long sentence of your choosing is easy to memorise and plenty long enough to not be able to be guessed by a computer (brute force).

In other words, there are fewer low quality results which raises the average quality of the results you’re presented with

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Gone are the days of sketchily using a hairdryer, apparently.

There was a post here recently about anonymising the IP addresses in the logs to be absolutely sure that you don’t end up collecting any personally identifying information (PII).