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I love the flexibility and the fact that there's a variety of examples for basically anything I want to accomplish with it. Great work to the team.
If you guys like reading about this kind of thing I recommend Cocktail Codex from the people behind Death & Co (referenced in the article). It's a great way to think about cocktails as a remixable grammar and the purpose behind all the mixing, muddling, and stirring.
I'm working on one for web map data visualization: https://youtu.be/GJ0ftFB8r4I?t=871
https://react.dev/reference/react-dom/components/common#reac...
For most cases, the Element Capture or Region Capture API should be sufficient: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Capt...
Demos: https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/screen-capture-api/elemen... https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/screen-capture-api/region...
If you need cross-browser compatibility (and can't just use a canvas) then yeah html2canvas is the way to go
I've been using CropTarget.fromElement with a CaptureController: https://gist.github.com/akre54/e93ab2ce27999aecb109e38085f2e...
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/pelicans-on-a-bicycle/
https://new.mta.info/article/introducing-subway-origin-desti...
I've been using Theatre.js the last few years and really loving it. It's a library divided into two parts; one is a studio UI with a timeline for editing keyframes and bezier curves, and the other is a runtime for taking those keyframes and interpolating values in relation to a timeline. Try it for anything that requires coordinated animations.
If you only ever reward investments with high rates of return it leads to atrophy in boring yet essential sectors of the market. Supermarkets, like you mentioned, have a very low profit margin (usually 1-3%). Can you imagine what would happen if no one was willing to invest in a supermarket?
That 10% growth rate may or may not be factoring in some externalities that the 5% growth has to
Basically the Disney brand has gotten so huge and diversified that a public domain Mickey isn't an existential threat to their business anymore. Terrifying in its own right, but at least we might see an end to the endless copyright extension. Interesting times ahead!
SVG naturally spends a lot of time and resources tessellating paths into triangle strips, which requires mitering and sorting and other not easily parallelizable (read: slow for GPU) algorithms.
For those who need a bit more advanced timeline, check out Theatre.js. Nice to see more motion on the web platform!
There have been a few attempts (i.e. this recent one [2][3]) to attempt to fine-tune the parameters of the SVG with image segmentation, before comparing rendered outputs with a CLIP model. This is promising but the search space for vector images is just so huge that so far you really need to start with an existing image as a basis rather than starting from scratch. Interesting area of research!
0. https://ajayj.com/vectorfusion/ 1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11319 2. https://intchous.github.io/SVGCustomization/ 3. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12302
Thanks for the great work on WebCodecs!
We've heard variations on this argument for decades and I see no difference why LLMs, despite their immense capabilities, will be massively different. They still take guidance and produce garbage output which requires knowledge and expertise to turn into a cohesive product. Will they replace some script writing, or some business logic translation? Of course. But so did SQL, no-code, and plain-English testing frameworks. LLMs are an incredibly powerful tool but they're not a silver bullet.
Am I right in assuming this solution is somewhere in between distributed tracing and Workflow definition, like event based programming, but the possible states are always strongly typed / defined?
I've also been thinking a lot about node-based programming, in a creative context. One piece I keep coming back to is that node trees are really helpful when the logic is straightforward, but can be a bit visually overwhelming for first timers when the logic is nontrivial or it generates complex artifacts as an output. Does State Backed support grouping nodes, a la Blender or Houdini? Or how do you think about information hiding for this type of thing? Looks like right now the nodes represent functions, so you don't have to think about what sendWelcomeEmail does, eg. How do you think about representing the state within that logic then?
The entertainment new channel E! Is well established in this space. I have to wonder at what point a low cost arm is cheaper than an array of cameras.
Uber's play is as a platform. They win if there are several SDC providers (with working autonomy). As an analogy, they're Android; they want to own the network and have multiple operators plug into the Uber app, while the hardware makers don't want to do the work to spin up an expensive 2-way marketplace. Waymo is playing at the iPhone game. They want to be the biggest market operator, and can get away with not owning the top of the funnel for the time being. If other operators fall far behind in progress, Waymo will spin up the investment to vertically integrate and try to siphon Uber customers off that way.