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Nice work! Getting the moon info is a challenge, isn't it? My first sun clock was written in C++ in the 1990s. I decided to stick with a 12-hour clockface mainly because people are so much more familiar with them. The concept for my Steampunk clock comes from the early 2000s. It's amazing what you can do in 3d these days in javascript!

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Isn't it? The ability of the cloud-hosted intelligences we have access to is so hard to imagine. 1990s huh, and 2000's, you have a lot of experience and wisdom to share! I'm curious about some of your opinions/perspectives on topics, so I'm writing myself a note to look through your comment history and learn a bit more about you.

Thanks for sharing!

edit: OK just looked at your steam punk clock. so cool! & thank you for the kind words earlier.

I see you have a weather feature that predicts temperatures for the day. How about showing that info on the clock itself, maybe as color coding? Some ideas for other useful info that you can hang on your clock: (1) tide info indicated by a ring of varying width could be cool looking, (2) a second time zone so you can coordinate with a distant person. I did add this second time zone to my www.dayspiral.com clock, it even shows a green line where both people will be awake. (3) appointments?

yes, thank you for that! love those ideas. for your day spiral clock, hmm maybe I'm missing something, im not seeing the green line and not sure what happened with the show interface button. it stopped working after clicking it a few times.

incognito reset and I can see the tide feature now, very cool. and the side by side time comparison too.

I find myself a bit confused by the inner spiral, when the clock hand for me now is on 11am its on the inner spiral which intuitively leads me to believe its on pm, but after thinking a lot, I kinda get it. when I was making an interaction of my sun clock, I had a spiral that looked like this. to make it more "readable" and grokable, had the spiral come out a lot more so that inner spiral when the clock is at 11am would still be outside but break off right before it meets the outer spiral and just barely turn inwards. not sure if that is clear, but that helped me with readability.

> Getting the moon info is a challenge

TBH I delegated it to the cloud-intelligence, and it took a bit of time to get the algorithms right and once I validated it for one zip code, I scaled it for the others 3-years in advance and batched it over a few days and just uploaded a bunch of .json.gz files of the astronomically calculated data into blob storage. Didn't do much thinking besides how to boss around and order the patterns/"thinking" from the cloud-intelligence and my vision.

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