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A friend of mine from Indonesia told me a few weeks ago that flying from one end of his country to the other was longer than flying from London to Uzbekistan, or flying transatlantic from London to Boston. I thought this couldn't possibly be true, but when I looked it up, it was.

The Mercator projection really messes with one's sense of relative distances, and so inspired by other visualization sites like thetruesize.com which account for this, I thought I'd build this small web app to help myself and others build better intuitions about flight distances.

The app is obviously targeting a different audience, but having bought it and recorded some test footage on it now, it has considerably fewer features than Blackmagic Cam for videography/cinematography pros - no zebras, focus peaking, stabilisation settings, anamorphic de-squeeze, etc - even commonly-expected framerates like 23.98fps / 29.97fps and settable aspect-ratios like 2.39:1 aren't available as far as I can see.

Would hope to see them address these missing features in future updates, but at the moment there's nothing here to make me move away from Blackmagic for "serious" iPhone videography.

I used to use Zotero and Mendeley, but recently switched to Paperpile and haven't looked back. It's a Chrome plugin, and saves all your papers to Google Drive. It has a really nice cite-while-you-write extension for Google Docs that really makes it worth it.