Experiment 4
An attempt to visualise how a codebase changed over a year, drawn from git history. Beautiful, and I have not yet found a decision it would help anyone make.
Archived: pretty, not useful
Showed it to four people. All four said it looked great. None of them could name a decision it would change.
That is the whole story. It is a visualisation in search of a question, and I would rather archive it honestly than keep polishing it because it is nice to look at.
If I come back to this, it will be from the other direction: find someone with a question about their codebase's history first, then draw only what answers it.
It renders
Parses the log, buckets commits by directory and week, and animates the result. Watching a year of a project compress into fifteen seconds is genuinely absorbing.
Absorbing is not the same as informative, which is starting to bother me.