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Owen Lacey
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Consciously plan more family activities on the weekend, even if it's just going for a walk. Not a perfect track record, but this went largely well, and definitely changed our default behaviour! 🙏
December 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
No, but was thinking this would be a cool first excuse!
December 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Also, the (assumedly) SSR for the OG images is very neat 🙌
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Love this! I've been thinking a GitHub-style heatmap for bluesky would be cool

Did you use any of the AT Proto SDKs for this?
December 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I bookmarked a high % of links mentioned 😅
December 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Thought I would deploy this in case people want to mess around with it:

owen-lacey.github.io/dgbmc/

Please note: it's boring now, but will be less boring in future 👀
Hollywood Actors Graph
Interactive graph of Hollywood actors connected by movies
owen-lacey.github.io
December 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Haha - I deploy the source mapping along with the js so go nuts!
December 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Thanks so much 🙏 I use lit.dev for the interactive web components. The graphs etc are all custom made to keep the js bundle as small as possible
Lit
Simple. Fast. Web Components.
lit.dev
December 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Haha - it's scalable for sure
December 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This Pikachu took me more time than I care to admit 😅
December 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It's the lack of fancy title that made me click it - great post! 🙌
December 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Update:

- Putting the entire graph in a web app was EXTREMELY slow. I pivoted to show an anchor node (which is what the project is all about) 😮‍💨
- I enjoyed revisiting high school maths to calculate a nice location for each costar 🤓
- Learning loads about CSS animations whilst I'm at it 🙌
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
100%. I'm confident I wouldn't code in my spare time if I couldn't use AI, the mental bar for entry is so much lower
December 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Enjoyed this! Dabbled with SDD for both big & small features - I definitely get more value from the latter
December 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Right, we're getting somewhere 🙌

This is:
- A graph of actors, connected by movies they've co-starred in (according to www.themoviedb.org)
- Filtered to the most "Recognisable" ones (according to AI)
- Bigger circle = more connected
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
100%!
December 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Oh god 🙈 makes me think of this video youtu.be/yFVXsjVdvmY?...

Thank you!
The mathematics of love | Hannah Fry
YouTube video by TED
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Bless you ❤️ thanks again for your help
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM