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mbsmrtic.bsky.social
@mbsmrtic.bsky.social
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Reader, software engineer, traveler. Interested in languages; my 2 favorites are French and Python because I think they’re beautiful.

http://www.mandalavis.com/
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I love Cape Cod in the fall. Peace, beauty and soup. 😆🐚
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Ray Bradbury says “don’t think”. He says to focus on practicing and improving your skill and let that be the end goal. He says: “If you do, I think you might easily find a new definition for Work. And the word is LOVE.”
#booksky
#dowhatyoulove
#lovewhatyoudo
October 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Big update to mandalavis.com ! For my newest mandala I improved the zooming: two finger pinch, mouse wheel. And, I added the first part of editing the mandala. Choose a shape, color, position... #interactions #mandala #datavisualization

www.mandalavis.com/post/18
September 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Saw a beautiful Green Heron last night after a perfect day at the beach. #bird #capecod
August 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Did some hiking in the Italian Alps. Incredibly beautiful part of the world. #mountains
August 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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#fireworks
July 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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June 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Beautiful night at the beach. 🌊🌅🔥
June 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I started mandalavis.com in JavaScript to create some interactive graphics. Now I’m starting work on the back end business logic in python. Oh how I’ve missed you python. ❤️❤️❤️
May 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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A mandala for Mother’s Day

www.mandalavis.com/post/16

www.mandalavis.com

#mothersday
#art
#mandalaart
#datavisualization
May 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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My latest mandala is data driven and interactive.

www.mandalavis.com/post/15
May 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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"'Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?'
'Wouldn't it be great if it did?' I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering."
Paul Kalanithi When Breath Becomes Air

I'm loving this incredible memoir.
#stoicism #booksky
April 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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A mandala of mandalas.

www.mandalavis.com/post/13

#mandalaart #mandala #art
April 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Fun with SVG curves! I love the new shape I added. It wasn’t easy to get it exactly right but it looks joyful to me. #joy #art #dataart #mandalaart

www.mandalavis.com/post/12
April 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Added a new shape that I call a potted plant. The mandala I made for it was really light. I liked it but I added a big dark wave to the perimeter to give it more intensity. Starting to consider how intensity could be a #datavis parameter.
#dataart #mandalaart #art
www.mandalavis.com/post/11
April 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Try out the interactions on my newest mandala.
They're still a little shaky, but they're getting there!
I added a new shape that's an arc lined with dots. Making it involved some fun with geometry.
www.mandalavis.com#mandala8
#dataart #mandala
April 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I added a mandala that is a random combination of the shapes I've added so far. It's interesting to keep refreshing the page. Different combinations of shapes really feel different. Give it a try! #dataart #impermanence

www.mandalavis.com#mandalarandom
April 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I added a wave shape to my toolbox and created this mandala. It was inspired by a mosaic that I saw in Florida.
#dataart #mandala
👋🌊🌀🔆
www.mandalavis.com/#mandala7
March 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Moving away from drawing lines and towards drawing filled shapes organized in layers. This will help interaction functionality so users can interact with shapes as data objects.

www.mandalavis.com/#mandala6
March 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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My latest mandala. At some point they will start to turn into data visualizations, but so far it's fun to try to make them symmetrical and elegant.

#art #dataart #symmetry

www.mandalavis.com#mandala5
March 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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For my latest mandala, I wanted to create the perfect spiral.
www.mandalavis.com/#mandala4

#beauty
#perfectSymmetry
#dataArt
March 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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I added functionality to support circle layers for different number of circles, different sizes, and colors. And also, teeth! I didn't mean for them to look like teeth, but they made me laugh, so I left them there. 😄 😁🦷

www.mandalavis.com/#mandala3
March 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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I had to share this because it made me laugh. Little t-shirt mandala. www.mandalavis.com#mandala2
March 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I wrote some javascript today that draws a static mandala. It's the first step towards developing mandala inspired data visualizations.
www.mandalavis.com

P.S. Spotted this mosaic mandala on a hotel floor in Florida recently. Inspiration is everywhere!
February 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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"I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down"
Jake Epping in Stephen King's 11/22/63.

This is an example of why I love Stephen King's books even though they're darker than I want them to be.

Same Jake, same.

#StephenKing #WritingCommunity #Booksky
February 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM