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Lightbeam updates
1–2 minutesHere are two quick updates about Lightbeam because I can’t contain the excitement to myself. Lightbeam goes responsive, yayyyyy!!! Responsive UI I am extremely happy for achieving this today. Making the UI responsive was there in our to-dos, but this one got done today accidentally in an attempt to answer few of the comments on… Read more
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Lightbeam – SVG to Canvas
2–3 minutesSVG is the preferred choice for D3. But when you expect a lot of DOM nodes (yes, in the case of Lightbeam) you need to start worrying about the DOM performance and have to take the call to step out of the SVG comfort zone. We chose Canvas over SVG for Lightbeam 2.0! In this… Read more
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Lightbeam – Tooltips (SVG)
3–5 minutesIn this blog post I want to share my lessons learned from creating tooltips for the Lightbeam visualisations. Visualisations are the major part of this Outreachy – Lightbeam internship. We use D3-force to create a simulation for an array of nodes (websites), compose the desired forces, and then listen for tick events to render the nodes as they update. When we started,… Read more
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Am I a fraud?
3–4 minutesImposter Syndrome is described as a feeling of “phoniness in people who believe that they are not intelligent, capable or creative despite evidence of high achievement”. While these people “are highly motivated to achieve”, they also live in fear of being ‘found out’ or exposed as frauds. (Clance and Imes, 1978) Recently, I had this… Read more
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Lightbeam – Behind the scenes
2–3 minutesIt’s more than 2 weeks now. I haven’t had the time to write anything down. So here’s a quick post on what’s happening! San Fransisco – Mozilla All Hands 2017 Before The week of June 26 – 30 was Mozilla All Hands 2017 at San Fransisco. It was my first time into the United States… Read more
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Lightbeam – ‘tale of 2 stores’
2–3 minutesThanks to Bianca, my fellow Outreachy-Lightbeam project partner for coining the above title in her blog and asking me questions to explain about the bug(PR) I recently fixed for Lightbeam. I started explaining her last evening via quick diagrams and I already had an idea to make my next blog post colourful 😉 I have… Read more
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Princiya Sequeira 