They even had a post about it, too: https://stripe.com/blog/globe
Still, given that the "form" is well established, it is always interesting to me at least to see how they chose to represent the data. When Blekko was running Bryn Dole had done a visualization based on this theme were query requests were highlighted as streams from their point of origin (more queries, taller stream as I recall).
FWIW I'm currently running a Twitter poll to see whose globe people like better. 8 hours in the votes are running 60% Github, 40% Stripe:
I'm also not forgetting Microsoft's checkered history with open source, or their current deals with government agencies like ICE and the DoD.
* I'm not saying they didn't build it themselves. For companies like Microsoft/GitHub, the design is the hard part and paying engineers is easy.
I think the combination of timezone and language settings would work for the obviously problematic cases (eg, Australia vs Japan/China/Asia, and South vs North America. Africa is still a problem though.)
It's still a heavy thing to add to any page IMO. Which shouldn't be downplayed.
But it is very neat and I still like it.
They optimized for hitting 60fps without any concern for the resources they were using as long as it fit in that budget
I agree that using this amount of resources in the browsers of visitors shouldn't be taken lightly (they could be on battery for example).
Please scroll down to where the globe image appears and click/tap it. Feel free to switch countries and click around. I would love to hear your feedback.
PS: We have open sourced all this stuff, so if anyone here wants to put a globe on their website, just load our Q.js from https://github.com/Qbix/Platform and then render the Q/globe tool and Places/countries selector tool with your own options. Unlike the GitHub globe, you can also have users click on countries in the globe to select them, and if you need you can pull in the flags, languages and all the other stuff per country.
Some kind of chernobyl event, possibly caused by the ICBMs in the globe image?
What is the octocat standing on top of? Abandoned silo? Or live silo about to go hot?
1: https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/planetary-protection
(Full disclosure: I ported a prototype version of my company's globe data viz in 2013 using Three.js - it's terrific! Those folks are the real heroes in this story.)
Clearly the USA is more active during the day, as is India and Europe. Brazil on the other hand is backwards. Anyone know why that would be? I’ve worked with Brazilians before during the day so that struck me as really peculiar.
I recall Stripe's globe was built using that.
To answer your question, the failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat flag allows sites to turn off their hardware accelerated features when hardware acceleration is off.
A recent thread that turned out to be a lightdm bug: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/kl9map/cant_run_...
This sounded like a joke, but I wasn't 100% sure.
It's a real thing (code from Stack Overflow):
const context = canvas.getContext("webgl", {
failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat: true,
});
I've also tried to visualise worldwide COVID data on that globe, however performance degrades making it completely unusable.
looks so cool
It's a common gotcha when embedding Google maps on mobile.
Here's a mobile capture for reference https://files.catbox.moe/e965m9.mp4