Comment by charliewallace
1 day ago
Do you love weird clocks like I do? Check out my https://steampunkclock.com! That's weird for you - based on the spirograph concept. There are actually three clocks in there; you can get to the others directly at https://mobiusclock.com and the most useful one, https://dayspiral.com that shows your local time of sunrise and sunset, all with a 12-hour clock face. How did I cram 24 hours of info into a 12 hour clockface, you ask? I used a 2-turn spiral!
Tip, you can rotate and zoom the steampunk clock - try zooming in on the gears! Click the "Show interface" at lower left to see all the options or switch clocks.
Ah, fun! Kind of like my sun clock at https://sunsignal.app - I experimented with a spiral concept in one of the iterations.
I love how clean and bold your clock feels.
Let me know if you check my weird clock out, and what you think!
Nice work! Getting the moon info is a challenge, isn't it? My first sun clock was written in C++ in the 1990s. I decided to stick with a 12-hour clockface mainly because people are so much more familiar with them. The concept for my Steampunk clock comes from the early 2000s. It's amazing what you can do in 3d these days in javascript!
Isn't it? The ability of the cloud-hosted intelligences we have access to is so hard to imagine. 1990s huh, and 2000's, you have a lot of experience and wisdom to share! I'm curious about some of your opinions/perspectives on topics, so I'm writing myself a note to look through your comment history and learn a bit more about you.
Thanks for sharing!
edit: OK just looked at your steam punk clock. so cool! & thank you for the kind words earlier.
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> Getting the moon info is a challenge
TBH I delegated it to the cloud-intelligence, and it took a bit of time to get the algorithms right and once I validated it for one zip code, I scaled it for the others 3-years in advance and batched it over a few days and just uploaded a bunch of .json.gz files of the astronomically calculated data into blob storage. Didn't do much thinking besides how to boss around and order the patterns/"thinking" from the cloud-intelligence and my vision.