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Zite and Unicode Sparklines Lightning Talk

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Michael (liik)'s wroclove.rb 2024 lightning talk. First half pitches Zite — an open-source, German-only task and process management app between Trello and Salesforce — and asks the audience to star it on GitHub/GitLab, noting that about 50% of Zite's users are on GitLab and that two-factor authentication discourages people from starring. Second half recounts a recent research prototype with no designer and no UI requirements, where the team decided to use no CSS/JS bundler and no UI library (no Tailwind, no Bootstrap). Pure HTML turned out nice and mobile-friendly. When users asked for a histogram of document distribution across years, instead of adding a big UI library he used Unicode sparklines (a well-known technique with a dedicated wiki page), giving users a feel for data distribution in both selection and result views.

date
2024-03-22
type
lightning-talk
talk Zite and Unicode Sparklines Lightning Talk
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Zite project
First half of the talk pitches Zite and asks for GitHub/GitLab stars.
talk Zite and Unicode Sparklines Lightning Talk
about
Second half describes solving an in-app histogram with Unicode sparklines.
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Zite and Unicode Sparklines Lightning Talk talk
Delivered the lightning talk at wroclove.rb 2024.
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Zite and Unicode Sparklines Lightning Talk talk
Takeaway drawn from Michael's account of the research prototype decision.
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Zite and Unicode Sparklines Lightning Talk talk
Takeaway drawn from the sparkline solution described in the talk.
talk Zite and Unicode Sparklines Lightning Talk
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Lightning talk given during the wroclove.rb 2024 lightning-talks session.

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