Dominikus
generative artist, data visualization developer, identity-challenged
dataviz: https://do.minik.us
art: https://dominikus.art
- Plato's Gorgias dialogue (380BC!) is interesting when it comes to LLMs. In it, Gorgias argues that someone whose only skill is being good at talking is more convincing to a lay audience than actual experts. Which opens up two avenues for "improving" LLMs: expert knowledge on everything or rhetoric.
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- Reposted by Dominikusjust opened up limited edition preorders for poetry.camera ~ (it feels weird to do self-promo on bsky but i also want to celebrate our first batch drop!! a long time coming)
- Reposted by DominikusLast week I had the pleasure of finally releasing the #SveltePlot alpha version during my talk at the #SvelteSummit in Barcelona. It's a new visualization framework for @svelte.dev that I've been working on for the past 18 months, so it's about time for a 🧵
- Random things popping into your head is consciousness' low key genius attract mode.
- Reposted by DominikusSo @driven-by-data.net just launched SveltePlot, which merges my 2 fav things in #DataViz: Svelte and the Grammar of Graphics. 100% going to use this! Site: svelteplot.dev Gregor's slides: www.vis4.net/slides/svelt... #SvelteSummit
- Future of (human) art will be bizarre, idiosyncratic, weird. Things that have never been done and are thus in no dataset. Everything AI is by necessity average and it's no wonder that the latest insult is things being 'mid'.
- Having spent weeks now with ChatGPT's Deep Research, Perplexity, etc. I'm honestly not sure if they're actually saving time in research tasks or if they're providing the illusion.
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- 'Yet' has become the most common adverb in tech reporting these days.
- "Ink golf" - love it!
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Ceding techno optimism to the right is a generational scale mistake - Why is it 'generative artist' and not 'noise jockey'?
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- Not sure if the library's any good, but that website is 🤌 animejs.com
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- It‘s a shame that our future is created by people who don‘t have hobbies.
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- The future of #datavis
- HN comments for @shirleywu.studio's last blog provide a fascinating glimpse into the minds of definitely non-datavis people: Datavis is done, simplicity should be everything, web as a platform was a bad idea... Is this what potential clients think? Is this where the crisis in datavis comes from?
- Me using Cursor
- love (especially) the navigation and playful exploration of the medium web here: thehtml.review/04/
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- Stages of using code assistants: 1. Haha, look, it can even generate "code" lol 2. I mean it runs, but it's so buggy! 3. Ok, but we can never use that in production 4. Really into gardening these days
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- What an absolutely delightful call-to-arms for multimodal/future interface design! Plus a shining example for how to use genAI illustrations 👏
- wrote up some thoughts on how our interfaces are getting flatter, and how we might design with 💃 our bodies 🤸 in mind. 🧶 went ham on little yarn worlds wattenberger.com/thoughts/our...
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- Great summary by @moritzstefaner.bsky.social on the 2025 polycrisis of dataviz! An additional hypothesis, cause-wise: Bespoke dataviz is fundamentally incompatible with social media (takes long to read, works best when interactive, slow development cycles), yet main metric for success is virality.
- Every AI is as creative as the person using it.
- So many amazing people …. and me 😅
- 📊 Meet our panel of 80+ judges for the 2024 #IIBAwards! Our judges represent #dataviz experts from different domains, countries, and languages. Meet the judges: buff.ly/4b2u3Al
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