The books (e.g.:Data Analysis with Rust Notebooks[1] and Practical Evolutionary Algorithms[2]) are doing well, and whilst I'm likely "leaving money on the table", I'm happy with how it's going.

[1] https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/data-analysis-with-rust-...

[2] https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/practical-evolutionary-a...

[1] https://plotapi.com/docs/

Instead of a time-limited trial, we have just one of the plot types (Sankey) freely available indefinitely (https://plotapi.com/page/sankey/).

We tried a time-limited trial, and we just ended up with people re-registering new accounts every 2 weeks.

I was tinkering with Unity at the time, so I thought I’d use it to make future releases on other platforms a little easier.

I’ve tested it on a few iPhones, iPads, and a MacBook Air (running the iPad app). It’s worked nicely on those. I don’t recommend using the AirPod microphone as I noticed some poor recognition on the lower notes!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40104658

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My motivation came from my younger days where everyone (including myself) had their own little corner of the Internet, made with things like AngelFire and GeoCities. I missed that.

Nowadays, I prefer to make short posts, e.g. [1, 2, 3]. Of course, before I started, I had to write my own static-site generator... It's been years since I've ran my Patreon and I don't post on YouTube like I used to, so there's little to no engagement - which is OK with me.

[1] https://shahinrostami.com/articles/different-adjustments-for...

[2] https://shahinrostami.com/articles/my-pen-plotter-setup/

[3] https://shahinrostami.com/articles/colours-and-patterns-whil...

WebGL pixels works in the same browser, e.g.: https://plotapi.com/docs/visualizations/terminus/#default-vi...

If you want to give Rust a go through Jupyter Notebooks, check out https://datacrayon.com/data-analysis-with-rust-notebooks/set...

I started using KaTeX sometime after 2015 because it promised to be fast (the fastest! [1]). I had to change the representation of a bunch of expressions because KaTeX didn't support some environments, whilst MathJax did. It was a trade-off I was willing to accept at the time.

Many years later, I started writing a personal static-site generator. I wanted comparatively lightweight pages, so rendering server-side was an option. I re-evaluated MathJax vs KaTeX again and this time I leaned towards MathJax, as speed was no longer an issue for me. It looks like KaTeX has broader support now [2].

[1] https://katex.org

[2] https://katex.org/docs/support_table.html

I'm happy with the way it looks. I'd used KaTeX over MathJax previously because I found it rendered pages faster.

[1] https://shahinrostami.com/articles/my-pen-plotter-setup/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jMZtt37vgY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

This is interesting! Looking forward to testing the purple theme I use [1]. I wonder if extension developers will need to maintain three sets of instructions now? JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook >= 7, and Jupyter Notebook < 7

[1] https://github.com/shahinrostami/theme-purple-please

I used to write about evolutionary computation, data science, and other tech bits. I'm on my sabbatical right now and mostly writing pieces with no real common theme. I recently wrote my own static site generator - that held me up a little!