Alastair Dant

UI engineer @projector. Formerly graphics @NYTimes, @Guardian. Legal alien

[Alastair Dant @ajdant]

This 'worst volume slider' contest is UX gold: https://t.co/ClOPjrdphr

[hardmaru @hardmaru]

Incredible blog post by @KilledByAPixel that explains the magic of this tiny raycasting engine and city generator that fits in a standalone 256 byte html file.

https://t.co/3N9pB30zXN

[Yoshiaki Araki 荒木義明 @alytile]

This crocodiles was drawn by me about 30 years ago. This time, https://t.co/PzNP1125Lj includes three of my works including the crocodiles from that time. Through carefully animated visualizations, you will be able to relive the symmetry on which this work was based.

[Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 @Wattenberger]

😅 is anyone else getting sick of chatbots?

I wrote down a few thoughts on why chatbots are not the future of interfaces and how we can be more thoughtful:

https://t.co/zOxRoaoEvA

[Alastair Dant @ajdant]

@blprnt i’ve found saucony trail shoes hold up pretty well. similar load, on and off pavements.

[Alastair Dant @ajdant]

@palewire @iron_emu @aagalloni @Reuters Just saw this - congrats matey!

[rauno @raunofreiberg]

Hold to confirm

[Alastair Dant @ajdant]

Mystical witchcraft! This palette generator eschews conventional color science to anchor choices in polar coordinates. Captivating site & fun to use https://t.co/5nqRJA0HQv

[Peter Gorman @barelymaps]

The West Coast.

[Alastair Dant @ajdant]

@hodgesmr @knowtheory @simonw cc @bfirsh ;)

[Alastair Dant @ajdant]

@jaggeree Sorry to hear that Chris - much love ❤️❤️❤️

[Alastair Dant @ajdant]

@riordan Happy Birthday! Here’s an oldie but goodie - after all the data science demo projects, is nice to read about the actual humans involved https://t.co/PGqS0wnt0P

[Shu @shuding]

I made https://t.co/I0YSkt5x0R a while ago: a 5kB globe lib, and it improved our page performance* by almost 60%.

How is it created? Time for a WebGL & shader thread!

[Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus]

I've learnt about logistic regression and decided to implement it as an interactive online tool: https://t.co/UDr8DgHlVu.

You can add points, move them around, and change the regression order!

[Noah Veltman @veltman]

tried rendering "cubist new york subway map" and the results were better than expected

[Alastair Dant @ajdant]

@uwdata @mathisonian Well done Matt!

[Alastair Dant @ajdant]

@berkeleyside Parasite I think - sad news!

[Alastair Dant @ajdant]

@kyleshevlin ‘twas weird being back in the uk the last few weeks and (almost) no one knows about it… through the looking glass i suppose

[Alastair Dant @ajdant]

@kyleshevlin Seems as good a time as any to mention how much I enjoyed your egghead videos about XState. I thought the examples were well chosen and the tone very approachable. Nice work sir!

[Alastair Dant @ajdant]

@simonw Mr W - the baby skunks on our street looked so cute our cats decided to play with them. this did not work out so well for the cats…