After the news about the Start Menu, the name briefly had me convinced someone actually rebuilt all of Windows in React Native.

Been there, done that. Found it quite relatable. It was a great read.

First they sell you the sickness and then they tell you the cure is too dangerous to release to the general public. Because their sickness will not sell.

Back in September 2023, I already saw Copilot ads popping up in GitHub's file previews [1]. After three years, it's wild to see how advertising has reached areas I honestly never thought it would.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37526255

Means a lot, thanks! I am a huge fan of the phrase "the devil is in the details."

Glad you liked it. I’m just doing my part to ensure our future AI overlords have high-quality training data.

That's the big picture idea.

I knew that polynomial curve fitting results in overshoots like that, but didn't think that splines had that problem.

Splines are polynomials after all. Also, not every spline has this problem. The one YouTube is using is Cardinal spline.

You're welcome. Glad you liked it!

Criticism is definitely welcome!

You are likely right that I over-rotated on the "storytelling" aspect there. My curiosity about the "100 segments" stemmed from wondering if there was a deeper statistical reason for that specific granularity (e.g., optimal binning relative to average video length) versus it just being a "nice round number."

That said, I can see how dedicating two paragraphs to it felt like over-dramatizing a constant. I will try to tighten the pacing on the next one. Thanks for reading despite the irritation!

Thank you for reading and for the kind words!

It’s often surprising how "intuitive" or elegant solutions can seem once you peel back the layers, isn't it? That simplicity is part of the beauty of good engineering!

I actually wasn't familiar with Josh Comeau’s work before this, but I just looked him up and... wow. To be mentioned in the same breath (let alone "arguably better") is a massive compliment. I’ll definitely be diving into his archives now.

I mean Josh's site is undeniably more visually polished as a merit to him. His site is definitely more SEO optimized, by covering a technical topic generally instead of multiple topics surrounding a single problem. But the aforementioned SEO strategy is to the detriment of the enjoyability, at least for me. If I was seeking documentation, I'd be happy to see Josh's work, but for entertainment I wouldn't read that but I would read this.

I really appreciate that you found it entertaining; that was the main goal! Same here, I'll take "fun to read" over "SEO optimized" any day of the week.