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This can also affect voice dictation software like Dragon - if a user says 'Click myemail@mydomain.tld' it won't activate the link as Dragon is expecting 'Click email us', as that's now what the browser exposes as the link text.

That point might be academic anyway as I'm not sure Dragon would activate a link inside an SVG

If you have a minute would you mind trying this version: https://isstest.matteason.co.uk

I've shrunk the textures down to about 10% of the size of the original to see if it's a memory issue caused by the large textures

Hey - this sounds really interesting and I'd love to work on making this more useful for schools. Do you mind dropping me an email or a Twitter DM with more info? They're both in my profile

Yep, there's a settings link in the top left where you can toggle that and loads of other stuff :)

The source data it uses refreshes every 3 hours but it runs more frequently because the timing of the refresh isn't guaranteed. If you configure your app to refresh every 30 minutes - 1 hour that's probably good enough.

By the way, this pairs nicely with the 'ambient radio' feature on my other project Ambiphone if you want the full "space exhibit at the science museum" experience: https://ambiph.one/?m=1-Ambient+radio-bf100

Yes absolutely - I'm also using satellite.js so anything with a TLE available could be visualised. I'll have a think about how I could fit that in the UI.

Definitely interested in adding more if you have any pointers for where to get interesting data!

I've wanted to do it but didn't really know where to start, so I'm very interested to hear if anyone has any pointers. I'll have a look at your project too

That's a brilliant idea - looks like https://www.blitzortung.org allows their data to be used in non commercial projects so I'll look into that

I do actually use monthly snow/ice cover images in both projects! They're in the repo for the live clouds service [0].

I created them using the monthly images you linked combined with the Blue Marble "Land Surface, Ocean Color and Sea Ice" image [1]

[0] https://github.com/matteason/live-cloud-maps/tree/main/stati...

[1] https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/57730/the-blue-marble-l...

There's a composite image with the clouds and earth at https://clouds.matteason.co.uk/images/8192x4096/earth.jpg that you might be able to use?

It did originally have a little model of the ISS actually but I ran into some issues with the model loader - going to try and reinstate that feature

Thanks, I'll see if I can improve that. The textures are quite hefty so that's probably slowing it down. Are you on a mobile/cellular data connection?

Thanks! It's not Cesium, no - I'm using Globe.GL [0] with custom shaders for the atmosphere effects and day/night transition

Sorry about right-click. It's not disabled intentionally, it might be something in Globe.GL or three js. I'll see if I can enable it

[0] https://globe.gl/

Ooh very interesting, thanks! I did have a little model of the ISS in place of the yellow dot originally but I ran into some issues with it. Would be very interesting to get that fixed up and rendering accurately too

I don't suppose either of you have any content blockers installed in Safari? Someone on Reddit has mentioned that disabling content blockers fixed the globe not loading

Yeah there's definitely some latency in the video. I thought about adding an option to compensate for it (ie delay the position shown by some amount of seconds) but the delay is probably going to vary quite a bit over time so I don't think I can do that reliably

Sorry about that - unfortunately I can't reproduce it on an iPad Pro and I use Android but I'll see if I can borrow an iPhone to test on

It might be legal but it's against Google's policies I'm afraid:

> Contributions to Google Maps should reflect a genuine experience at a place or business. Fake engagement is not allowed and will be removed. This includes: [...] Content that has been incentivised by a business in exchange for discounts, free-of-charge goods and/or services.

https://support.google.com/local-guides/answer/7400114

Thanks! Yeah rewinding would be good (especially if I can get the video to sync up) and next pass time would be great

Do you really have over 10,000 customers? The domain name was only registered on 10 March this year

This is really nice. Works pretty seamlessly and the drawing tools are great. A couple of bits of feedback:

- I wasn't able to get PrtSc working as the hotkey. Ctrl+PrtSc did work though. I'm on Windows 11 and I tried turning off 'Use the Print screen key to open screen capture' in Accessibility > Keyboard in the Windows settings.

- Would be great to have the option to turn watermark off by default

- Windows' built-in Snipping Tool has a few extra area modes: full screen, window and freeform. I never really use freeform but full screen and window would be nice to have. Even better if the full screen option let you specify which monitor(s) it captures on a multi-monitor setup; snipping tool just captures all of them.

- A line thickness option would be good, especially for when you want to black out some text

It's not, no - it has a rinky-dink little computer with a simple 7-segment LCD, which is connected to whatever in the bike is measuring rotations via a 3.5mm jack. I did experiment with seeing if I could read a signal from it via a mic input so I could hack together a more advanced display but didn't have any luck.

I've just had a look for ways to adapt it though, and found BitGym [0] which doesn't require a connection to the bike at all - you just place it on the handlebars and it measures your cadence with the front-facing camera somehow. That would be a neat feature for Startona. Maybe you could even measure it via the accelerometer? FFT the lateral motion of the device to find the frequency of movement? Maybe it wouldn't be strong enough but it would be an interesting experiment

[0] https://www.bitgym.com/

Interesting idea, and the UX of the product itself is really interesting and not something I've seen before. I think it could work really well for the target market. A couple of issues I noticed:

- If you pivot there doesn't seem to be a way to go back. I pivoted at the first step and neither arrow left or arrow up go back to the starting point.

- It would be good to label the pivot with what would prompt you to choose it, for example for the first one something like "Pivot available: wrong person answers"

- The animation of the text is quite distracting. It at least needs an option to change the speed, because it animates slower than I could read, and ideally the option to turn it off. It's also buggy if there are multiple paragraphs in the response; subsequent paragraphs start to animate in even before the previous paragraphs have fully loaded, so you have multiple paragraphs animating at once.

This looks great. Sadly I've got a non-smart exercise bike so I can't try it out but the design of the game looks great and I love that it's browser-based

The only feedback I'd have is that it might be nice if the website pulled through the aesthetic of the game a bit more? Though on the other hand maybe the darker look helps the screenshots stand out more

Ok, I'll rephrase - it's extremely unethical and possibly also illegal in some jurisdictions to pretend to be a normal user and not disclose that you're the creator of the product in your testimonial

Do you not think it's misleading to have a quote from yourself in your 'What Our Users Say' section?

The two reviews with Twitter profiles [0][1] are very obviously generated by an AI-powered astroturfing service. Their only replies are repeated shilling of this and other products.

The page says you're 'trusted by 1600+ customers'. Were none of them willing to give a testimonial?

[0] https://twitter.com/KylieGaffn76609/with_replies

[1] https://twitter.com/lizpelly881/with_replies

Same here in Chrome and Firefox