I've been posting and lurking on linkedin a lot over the past year, as a means of gertting that 'social fix'. but it feels like a bit of a job-posturing-here's-how-good-i-am space. so I'm going to try to ween off of LI and post more here.

To start: last week was shit for me, productively. I had to switch from a dataviz-first headspace back to a front-end app dev headspace, in an app that was a few years old. countless build issues, failing tests. it sucked.

that's all, just had to rant. 😘

Bad news - a new study from Consumer Reports & As You Sow shows that most dark chocolate on the market has unsafe levels of heavy metals: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/

Good news - I made a rough Observable Notebook to navigate some of the underlying data: https://observablehq.com/@jasper/toxins-in-dark-chocolate

Will be updating & cleaning this up more in the coming days, but wanted to get it out there sooner rather than later 👍

Getting a head start on my focus for this next year - going deeeep on three.js.
Super simple experience but the level of detail in the coursework is fantastic! It's already been super beneficial to augment the little bit of three.js that I know with these lessons, specifically all of the available options for materials and textures.

https://threejs-sample-3d-text.vercel.app

#threejsJourney