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Would you rather see "number of requests started at this ms" (you seem to suggest this), or is something else more interesting?

I think a sort of Gantt chart that plots duration of requests as well as starting time within the time span (e.g. a second or more) might be very informative. Each individual request on a different position on the Y axis, time on the X axis. Perhaps you have some bound on requests in flight, that could be the height of the Y axis, so you can easily see calm or busy periods.

At least our observability stack doesn't show this level of detail, but it would be very interesting to have it. (We do have calculated heatmaps based on maximum request time in Grafana, which is at least better than plots of average request times)

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As for OP: read up on alert fatigue; if a notification isn't directly actionable, you shouldn't even see it!

The pull model for information is more durable for humans than the push model. Try RSS for news/blogs, take some time (preferably offline) each week to prepare for the important events in the upcoming week(s), write them down on something you pass by every day (such as a whiteboard near your front door).

It seems your project is at a really early stage. Almost none of the links on the page work, which is too bad, because it could have provided more background information on your goals and wishes. The only thing that seems to work is login through Google, which is a bit much for a demo site.

What's going to be the edge above the already excellent https://bgp.tools ?

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I think the main advantage is that you can granularly keep track of the movement of money, stocks, commodities, etc., and their conversions. As a day-to-day example, it gives you the ability to follow, for example, invoices received (Liabilities or Accounts Payable), transactions on a bank account (Assets), and what you are going to spend (or at some point, have spent) (Expenses).

This separation allows you to, for example, enter an invoice you've received on January 1 in Accounts Payable, with a corresponding value in Expenses. At this moment, nothing happened yet, it's simply an administrative transfer of some amount from an asset account to an expenses account (the sum of these transfers must be zero, so one amount is negative whereas the other amount is positive. See [0] for more details).

As a result, this gives you insight in what still needs to be paid. Once a transaction for that invoice enters your bank account on, for example, January 10, it gets "paid" to Accounts Payable, thus giving you a link between an invoice, its payment, and finally the amount spent. (This concept also works the other way around, see this sibling comment[1], where it's also extended into working with multiple accounts.)

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The symbols on that page could be a bit bigger, though, as they are the main subject. (I changed 1.125rem to something like 1.6rem for text-lg; that works, but it could get a bit crowded with the clickable arrow on lower resolution screens).

I'm not a huge fan of things that move; the offset of a block of symbols, as well as scaling of an individual symbol block when hovering seems a bit too much. I would do either, but not both.

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I think power users are most annoyed by those modals. It prevents them from doing the exact thing they were planning to do. Instead, they'll have to reinterpret what the application is telling them, consider it to be irrelevant (most of the times), and then pick up whatever they were planning to do. This creates friction.

I don't need the application to tell me a sidebar was introduced. I see that immediately because it differs from the layout I'm already used to. And then I'm annoyed they added the sidebar, because it takes up space without offering relevant new functionality.

And if you stretch the definition of TUI a bit, the Bloomberg terminal is a fascinating example.