beneater

Thanks for the free a11y audit!

I fixed a number of the low-hanging a11y issues that you identified.

As for using modern web tooling, keep in mind there are many business and technical tradeoffs that go into any engineering decision. In this case, dynamically rendering the content makes it easier in the future to require aspiring hardware engineers to pass a test demonstrating knowledge of WCAG 2.0 standards before unlocking any educational hardware content.

Very cool! I've been considering going this direction with the videos once I've finished everything for the breadboard version. Modular PCBs would make it a lot easier to rearrange things to experiment with different architectures, which could be interesting.

But I've got a lot of other ideas too, so who knows...

Thanks for the kind words! And thanks to everyone for your interest.

I've done this and once had a phone rep from Geico who was convinced I worked for them because my email was something like [email protected]. This was probably in the late 90s when email was still new to many people. She was really confused that I wasn't getting the employee discount. "Are you sure? Does a family member work for Geico? No? Are you sure?..." I don't think she ever did really understand what was going on.

Perhaps I could have saved even more than 15% if I'd just gone with it. :D

I always understood it to be that the "typographic resolution" aspect of sparklines was an important characteristic and that you really couldn't display a proper sparkline on a screen because most screens just don't have the resolution of printed material. The idea was that the human eye could glean useful information from charts with 600 or even 1200 data points per inch and so you could pack an incredible amount of data into a small space. Even retina displays are only about half that, though most "sparklines" I see don't even attempt that density.

Does anyone know if sparklines are actually used that way? The only place I've seen really dense sparklines are Tufte's books. Most I've seen in the wild seem to have just a handful of data points.

That article has a terrible title. It implies it discusses deficiencies with the Common Core standards. A much better title would be something like "Open questions in mathematics that align to Common Core standards"