Although many tools exist, there still seems to a large context gap here: we need better tools to orient ourselves and to navigate large (legacy) codebases. While not strictly a a source graph or the like, I do think Enso like interface may prove successful here[0].

Also, not all information spreads through public channels, and might not even be/become publicly known. But that doesn't mean news refraction based on textual similarity isn't worthwhile to pursue, as it can reveal a lot about the self-organising principles by which the media operate.

Why would you do that and I'd love to know more

The larger project is to allow analyzing stories for developmental editing.

Back in June and August i wrote some llm assisted blog posts about a few of the experiments.

They are here: sjsteiner.substack.com

Cables[0] is pretty cool too. Kirell Benzi has released some impressive work using it [1].

[0]: https://cables.gl/

[1]: https://youtu.be/CltYdTVH7_A

Partly in jest, but maybe we need a NON-DISTINCT signaller to convey the inverse and return duplicate values only.

SOMEWHAT-DISTINCT with a fuzzy threshold would also be useful.

I hear you. It's not all _that_ uncommon for me to query for "things with more than one instance". Although, to be fair, it's more common for me to that when grep/sort/uniqing logs on the command line.

Yeah, similarly combining distinct with recursive CTE's in SQL can be the difference between a n×n blowout or a performant graph walk that only visits nodes once.

An optimisation I've always wondered about for transforming/translating/animating elements: is it faster to use JS translations or animation API directly on the element (e.g. style.transform / element.animate), or updating CSS variables with JS to let the CSS engine reposition inheriting elements?

In the context of animations, I'd intuit the latter but would be open to hearing why.

You want CSS transitions or animations, since they can run on the compositor thread (most of the time). Zero jank.

(I work with CSS browser performance, although animations is not my primary field)

jQuery has .animate() which uses the JS API and used to be very popular. When CSS Animations became available, that part of jQuery became obsolete overnight.

When knobs are fiddly, most VST3s offer high-resolution midi mapping for precise automation. I agree through, that a precise readout is a must as the 'knob units' may not always map to what is displayed by the VST host.

I think multi-zone drumpads on the recent Akai MPC Live 3 provide a good middle ground, quite similar to mapping various zones on a trackpad. The Macbook touchstrip was a cool (but maybe too cool) addition as well, similarly introduced by various DAW controllers (Push, Machine, MPC Live, others).

I meant that in the context of a digital ui, knobs are great because theyre a way to fit a finely-adjustable slider in a small area. In the physical world there’s obviously lots of alternatives

Curious, what's the use case for wanting your data backed-up without fail? Is it personal archives or otherwise (business) archive related?

Not to say you shouldn't backup your data, but personally I wouldn't be to affected if one of my personal drives errored out, especially if they contained unused personal files from 10+ years ago (legal/tax/financials are another matter).

Any data I created, paid to license, or put in significant work to gather has to be backed-up with 3-2-1 rule. Stuff I can download or otherwise obtain again is best effort but not mandatory backup.

Mainly I don't want to lose anything that took work to make or get. Personal photos, videos, source code, documents, and correspondence are the highest priority.