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Hi HN, author here.

This is small tool I made during Friday and Saturday. The idea for this tool is not new at all, but I've never seen this format online before.

The tool is based on an image I found on the internet[0] and was coded using a Node.js server with basic jQuery for the frontend on the Glitch platform[1]

Hope you like it!

[0]: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/06/9a/02/069a02a83aca933e7a2e5edbd...

[1]: https://glitch.com

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This is so cool! (I work with the Glitch team, and we loved seeing that you mad this.) For folks who don't know, since it's on Glitch, people can view the source and remix this here: https://glitch.com/~year-in-pixels

I like it. I personally don't have an affinity with the colours. Red for amazing? Red, to my mind is danger, and I would naturally associate that with bad things. I think green for an amazing day.

Also I'd find it easier to read if it were rotated 180 degrees and the months were stacked horizontally.

I think it would be easier to see some effects if you would change the layout to one row per week or 14 days per row. That way seasonal effects like a November depression would be much clearer.

The current layout would be a good choice to display the financial situation, as the cash level tends to change on a monthly basis for many people.

Nevertheless, nice tool :-)

Looks neat. But I'm not getting the font on the buttons to select today's state. Instead they're either blank or they have the Firefox "no font" glyphs.

Reason is: Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://allyoucan.cloud/cdn/icofont/1.0.0beta/css/icofont.cs....

I just want to commend you for very clean code. It is a pleasure to look at something written this clean, even if it is a smaller app.

This is great! It reminds me that I need to do smaller projects with faster turnaround. They're much more fun!

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