The tilt of the globe on that page changes throughout the year to match The Earth’s tilt when viewed from from The Sun. The initial rotation of Earth is correct for the time of day too. This means that, when you load the page, you see The Earth as The Sun currently sees it.
I’m not sure anyone has ever noticed, and I’m sure my calculation isn’t perfect, but I enjoy watching it change over the course of the year.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with the site in the last year-or-so. I’ve had a personal site for well over a decade now, but this is the iteration I like the most. Probably because this is the first time I’ve just built a playground for myself, and not tried to conform to what a site “should” be.
Sorry, those with disabilities don’t actually have the right to enjoy art. This article just isn’t for you. /s
I hate how ableism is so prevalent on the web and amongst engineers. This website is a beautiful way to let users explore the data interactively. There’s absolutely no reason it couldn’t also be made accessible so everyone could appreciate it and explore the timeline of the page and the messages communicated therein.
As nice as the page is, the lack of accessibility comes down to laziness and complacency on the side of the author imo.
Whilst reading about notable people who share my surname, I discovered this bizarre article on the Highgate Vampire media sensation of the 1970s.
> There was more publicity about Farrant and Manchester when rumours spread that they would meet in a "magicians' duel" on Parliament Hill on Friday 13 April 1973, which never occurred.
I’ve historically used Shortcuts on iOS to pipe articles through Siri, but the experience isn’t great.
I’m sure services must exist which consume articles and can read them aloud with high quality test-to-speech, tracking of how far through an article you’ve listened, and so on.
My particular use-case is that I'm not a Swift/Objective-C developer, I'm a JavaScript developer.
React Native opened the door to allow me to build apps and, realistically, I'm not going to spend the time battling through trying to get native git working through React Native. If there's a native developer out there that wants to tackle this problem and wrap it up in a nice JS module then I'd be in your debt!
I’d love to see some work put in to making this work with React Native. I spent a day trying to get this to work a few weeks ago with no joy, and I couldn’t find any indication that anyone else had managed to make it work either.
No plans currently, but the more libraries pop up around Shortcuts the more likely it is that knowledge can be shared between them, and that things may be able to be reconciled in the future. 10 different libraries all working to implement the same thing is needlessly wasteful.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t spend too much time with Workflow before Apple acquired them. I’m hoping that the community that’s grown around Shortcuts, and the ever more interesting things that people are doing with them, will help convince Apple to continue adding more and more powerful features to the app. Full control over system-level features would be incredible for power users.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like that works. I've been testing periodically as new betas are released, but I'm still seeing this every time I try to AirDrop a .shortcut over.
I don’t believe so, unfortunately. Regardless of what you use to trigger the Shortcut (a QR code, NFC, running it manually) the actual .shortcut file needs to be on the device so that it can actually be run. This means that you still need to find a way to import your generated .shortcut file onto your iOS device.
There is an ‘Allow Untrusted Shortcuts’ option in the Shortcuts section of the Settings app, but as far as I can tell this currently has no effect. Hopefully enabling that toggle will, in the future, allow the import of .shortcut files directly into the app.
I agree, it made life significantly easier than just using regular JS. I’d not built anything from scratch with TS before this, but it seemed such a great fit for the project I decided to take the time to familiarise myself with it. No regrets whatsoever.
Developer of Shortcuts JS here, happy to answer any questions!
At the moment the future of Shortcuts JS is uncertain. In the latest (iOS 13) betas of the Shortcuts app Apple have removed the ability to import Shortcuts from a file, only allowing them to be installed from the iCloud Shortcut sharing service. I’m hopeful that this feature will be added back in when the Shortcuts app comes out of beta in a few months. If not, then unfortunately Shortcuts JS may be dead in the water.
I'm happy to announce that Shortcuts JS finally has a proper home! The only real source of information on the library before now was the README on GitHub, so it's nice to have a better looking place to learn more about the library.
I've also spent a bit of time building a Playground into the site, so you can now play around with Shortcuts JS right in your browser! Downloading a Shortcut from the Playground doesn't currently work on iOS. I'll be adding support for that in the near future.
Any feedback on the site would be greatly appreciated!
As you'll see, we're about 10% of the way through implementing all of Apple's built-in actions into Shortcuts JS. If you'd like to help us get just a bit closer to 100% then I'd love to have you as a contributor! Adding an action only takes a few minutes and I'm more than happy to help you get started. Plus, you'll get pride-of-place in the Contributors section!
https://farrant.me/coffees/
The tilt of the globe on that page changes throughout the year to match The Earth’s tilt when viewed from from The Sun. The initial rotation of Earth is correct for the time of day too. This means that, when you load the page, you see The Earth as The Sun currently sees it.
I’m not sure anyone has ever noticed, and I’m sure my calculation isn’t perfect, but I enjoy watching it change over the course of the year.