https://gitlab.com/croxis/mmm-clear-skys

A very simple scraper module for astronomical viewing conditions for many locations in North America.

My experience is that if the volume of chat is low, splitting into a dev and non-dev chat causes the channels to suffer. There is some sort of lower limit for a community to sustain itself, be it end users or developers. But you are correct on the flip side, if the volume of chat is high then having multiple channels is perfect as both communities sustain their numbers and activity just fine.

I’ve set up a magic mirror channel on the freenode irc server.

Point your favorite irc client to
server: irc.freenode.net
channel: #magic_mirror

You can also access it by the older text based web interface or the newer web interface that is more slackish/discordish.

EDIT: Only the github and travis project owners can do any irc integration, so no push, pull, issue, or build notifications at this time.

I feel you on the javascript skills. I switched from canvas to svg and now nothing is rendering sigh.

The reason why I went with d3 (which planetary.js is based on) is because d3 can also render flat maps. Rasp pis might not have enough oomph to run spinning globes so my hope was to have flat maps as an option

I think most devs would prefer irc (freenode?), or maybe slack or matrix.

That looks real nice! That was one of the frameworks I was eyeing

Yes! Thank you. I think one of the problems I am running into is that I am currently rendering in a canvas, while many examples, including the ones you link, are svg based. I’ve started researching this a bit and it looks like svg is preferred except for games.

I’ve also poked the firefox developer tools, I have a memory leak and it is with some arrays, but I can’t figure out any further details. Any suggestions?

Stop our conversations! I have to make a new thread:
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1254/developing-usgs-earthquake-map-2mb-gif-warning-topic-2

The forum moderators and admins want us to make new topics if we need to update our modules with new releases. So that is what I am going to do.

I’m using d3.v4.js to put together a spinning map of Earthquakes from the United States Geological Survey. Here is my current code.

There are two major bugs I need to fix before release:

• I’m getting incredible slowdowns after a minute of running in firefox on my desktop pc. I hate to see what would happen on a pi. I’m at a bit of the loss on what the issue is, but I am sure it is how I’m setting up and updating the dom. Any performance profiling tool suggestions?

• “Flatten” out the dots into the sphere and hide them when they are on the far side.

I have to say I really do not like this policy.

It creates confusion for the end user – is my bookmark no longer pointing to the most up to date thread? Did google put me in the most current thread or do I have to search the forums again?
In other gaming mod communities (civilization, kerbal space program, minecraft) I can read the OP for the up to date current status of the mod. What you are asking me to do here is not only hunt for the most recent post by the author, but potentially hunt through multiple threads?

As a module developer the rule is driving me nuts. I just changed my repository url. My current post has an ongoing discussion. Anywhere else I could just update my OP with the new url and make a quick post in the existing topic. The topic is live with ongoing conversations. So do I kill the current topic, with active conversation, just to make a totally brand new topic?

These are forums, not a mail listserv.