The first four weeks of digital solargraphs are in the bank! Over 45,000 individual shots across two cameras, 380GB of RAW files condensed into a few seconds of video 😅

I guess watching Widow's Bay gave us a false sense of security and comfort around (tame and funny) horror. Watching Obsession (2026) was something else, though… not for the faint of heart. Good movie for sure, but I know why I normally stay away from horror movies.

The daily solargraph is the continuation of my digital solargraphy project. You can watch every day's capture as a little video, or scrub through manually. The new capture is added every night around 10pm PDT. eagereyes.org/app/daily-so...

The daily solargraph is the continuation of my digital solargraphy project. You can watch every day's capture as a little video, or scrub through manually. The new capture is added every night around 10pm PDT. eagereyes.org/app/daily-so...

It's weirdly sad/funny that all the half-broken Washington Post news graphics I linked from this blog post in 2016 are now entirely unreachable, while the NY Times Flash-based example I described as "you're now just staring at a big hole" works again. eagereyes.org/blog/2016/th...

The Bits Are Rotting in the State of Data Journalism – eagereyes

News articles are an incredibly important source of historical information. Online media and interactive pieces are much more at risk of breaking or disappearing, at least in theory. Well, it's not ju...

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Spending some time to clean up old links in blog posts and comments. A lot of things have gone away, pretty sad to see. So long Charticulator, Circos, iCharts, kartograph, Kuler, a bunch of yearly EuroVis and VIS workshop sites (BELIV!), and a whole lot of people's academic websites.

Something fun you can do with digital solargraphs that you can't with paper, is look at each daily streak separately and admire the patterns. Here are four from the last few days in Seattle, the first on the solstice (6/21), and then 6/26-28.

It's kind of odd how The Twist clouds so much of my memory of The Sixth Sense. It was an incredibly well done movie, might be time to re-watch (27 years later 😬). youtu.be/ujH-6k218Kc

How they got away with the most dangerous editing decision ever

YouTube video by CinemaStix

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This isn't so much a chart as a visual calculator (a nomograph or nomogram, as it says in the title). They were very common before computers/calculators, and encoded a fair amount of knowledge about their specific application areas and use cases.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · last mo.

In case you were wondering if charts were genetic, here’s one my grandfather got published in 1946 when he was at Standard Oil.

ICYMI: I built a little app that lets you draw solargraphs as seen from a number of different places across the globe, including the South Pole.

Robert Kosara@eagereyes.org · 2mo ago

I've built a solargraph simulator using solar irradiation data. Pick a place on Earth, animate the solargraph, draw just one point per hour for analemma view, or switch to panorama mode that projects the solargraph into a virtual sky you can navigate. eagereyes.org/app/solargraph

I've built a solargraph simulator using solar irradiation data. Pick a place on Earth, animate the solargraph, draw just one point per hour for analemma view, or switch to panorama mode that projects the solargraph into a virtual sky you can navigate. eagereyes.org/app/solargraph

Also, Happy Solstice! 😎

Robert Kosara@eagereyes.org · 2mo ago

I've built a solargraph simulator using solar irradiation data. Pick a place on Earth, animate the solargraph, draw just one point per hour for analemma view, or switch to panorama mode that projects the solargraph into a virtual sky you can navigate. eagereyes.org/app/solargraph

I've built a solargraph simulator using solar irradiation data. Pick a place on Earth, animate the solargraph, draw just one point per hour for analemma view, or switch to panorama mode that projects the solargraph into a virtual sky you can navigate. eagereyes.org/app/solargraph

What if solargraph, but animated? Is it a solarlapse?

$12K for an original Playfair? In this economy? Though the little historical snippet about Playfair and his relationship with the prime minister at the time (who owned this copy) is kind of interesting. www.abebooks.com/first-editio...

I just sent out emails to everybody who was subscribed to my website back when it was on WordPress. If that's you, check your spam folder :) You'll have to confirm your subscription or it won't be activated. There's interesting new stuff coming, you don't want to miss it…

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

There's something about USB power I just don't understand. This is old-school 5V power, not power delivery. It seems that USB hubs provide more power when no host device is present than when there is a computer there. So devices might work without host, but fail to boot up when there is one.

I'm trying to make some nice transitions from one place on the globe to another. Are there any good web apps or similar for this? I'm trying Google Earth Studio, but when I export, I get… this.

Image Playground in iPadOS 27 is vastly better than before

New video in the works… currently in the "arguing with Claude about thumbnail layout and title options" phase

New on eagereyes: The Strange Beauty of Solargraphs eagereyes.org/blog/2026/st...

The Strange Beauty of Solargraphs – eagereyes

Solargraphs capture the movement of the sun over time, often weeks or months. They are taken with pinhole cameras on photographic paper, leading to a very unique and ethereal look. The results are str...

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Unsurprisingly excellent piece from Ted Chiang about LLMs and particularly about Claude. Claude (or any other LLM) is not conscious or "intelligent" in the general understanding of the word, but if it were, then it would be, essentially, a slave. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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New on eagereyes: The Strange Beauty of Solargraphs eagereyes.org/blog/2026/st...

The Strange Beauty of Solargraphs – eagereyes

Solargraphs capture the movement of the sun over time, often weeks or months. They are taken with pinhole cameras on photographic paper, leading to a very unique and ethereal look. The results are str...

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Me: Hmmmm, should I look into some way to add comments to my static-site blog? Claude Code: here, let me build a commenting system that creates PRs on your repo with a custom-written Lambda and walk you through how to set it up. Me: okay

New on eagereyes: A Sign of Life in 2026! eagereyes.org/blog/2026/a-...

A Sign of Life in 2026! – eagereyes

I've rebuilt this site, and am in the process of building new features and content. In particular, there's now an interactive version of the ZIPScribble Map. Learn more about how the new site was buil...

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I haven't been very active here or, uh, anywhere. But I just completely revamped my website and will be adding more stuff over time. I'm also bringing back some of the things I broke in a previous transition. Take a look and let me know what you think! eagereyes.org

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That's-a-me (when I was still at Observable)! We mostly talked about my background, industry vs. academia, visualization research and how much it makes it into products, and also treemaps. Oddly, pie charts only make a very brief appearance. It was fun to record, and I think it's worth your time.

Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Robert Kosara is a Data Visualization Developer at Observable. He joins the show with @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about modern data visualization and his work at Observable. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/02/m...

That's-a-me (when I was still at Observable)! We mostly talked about my background, industry vs. academia, visualization research and how much it makes it into products, and also treemaps. Oddly, pie charts only make a very brief appearance. It was fun to record, and I think it's worth your time.

Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Robert Kosara is a Data Visualization Developer at Observable. He joins the show with @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about modern data visualization and his work at Observable. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/02/m...

I just vibe-coded a little Python script that is currently deleting all my old imported tweets that I had transferred over here. It's pretty simple, just goes by post date (since I didn't post here before I stopped tweeting), and the BlueSky API and Python SDK (and Copilot…) make this super simple.