Some progress made. Highlighting helps show there is some structure to the hairball.

De-hairballing strategies have been ineffective so far.

Switching the link drawing over to canvas.

I hung a curtain in the middle of my room.

Perfect.

Too many movies.

I refactored and changed data sources.

Highlight everything!

Sidebar styled.

This is a bug, but graph nodes on top of the sidebar is a good aesthetic.

I got rid of all the colors.

With Micha's help I got better results, but stepping back I think this was the wrong approach. Mostly because the distance between hues does not necessarily line up with what you perceive as a different hue. Which I kind of knew, but now I really understand the limits of.

Working on setting up a color scheme algorithm that gets me the 'most different' color each time I add a color. This is working for individual (hue, saturation, lightness) values within the ranges I set, but I guess because there is a periodicity to how I am setting each of those values it's not giving the results I hoped for. So I'm going to try and figure out a fix.

This is less decipherable than I thought it would be.

I added fake names and real TV shows to the collaborative filtering demo in progress.

A graph is rendered.

Starting on a new demo with a pretty representative set of open browser tabs.

A nice post on procedural color schemes.

From: https://programmingdesignsystems.com/color/color-schemes

I finished and delivered my nephew's website birthday card a week or so ago. It was well received. Next year I feel like I'll try and make some sort of character rather than just letters, but this one took longer than I planned so I had to scope to a stopping point. I built all the letters out of points picked by hand.

From: http://feed.grantcuster.com/jackson2017

I switched to vim a few weeks ago. I did a lot of color scheme tweaking yesterday (a modified version of the Dracula theme) and started using tmux. Feeling pretty good about the set-up so far.