Really cool, thanks for sharing this. Tiny suggestion: I think there's one border-radius too many in the bubbles.

I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie.

It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D)

charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E

Earthset from the moon.

Home.

Natürlich, das ist alles durch die Rechtsabteilung gegangen. Sonst würde sowas nicht veröffentlicht werden.

Ich bin kein Anwalt, aber soweit ich weiß gibt es auf so alte Dokumente kein Copyright, die sind zur freien Verwendung. ich glaube das ist auch der Grund wieso sie überhaupt frei zugänglich sind, irgendeine Frist ist abgelaufen.

example search results

screenshot of the archive exploration tool.

And another big project today: We've analyzed millions of member records from the Nazi-Party NSDAP and made them searchable and browsable.

🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...

Really strange, this is a straight-up hallucination; there's no word resembling walking anywhere in the original.

That's lost in the translation. The sentence says: "The astronauts are the first humans of the 21st century to have flown to the moon."

Artemis 2: Fliegen Sie mit uns zum Mond Zum ersten Mal seit 1972 brechen Menschen wieder zum Mond auf. Unsere 3D-Animation zeigt die komplette Strecke der Mission Artemis 2 – und was dabei schiefgehen kann.

If all goes to plan, tomorrow night, a spacecraft with four astronauts will start its mission toward the moon - the first time since 1972. To illustrate the journey, we set out with a simple yet crazy idea: Let’s show this journey to scale. Here's the result: www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...

Opinion | It’s Not Trump. It’s America.

One of the best articles I read this week! Bravo @polgreen.bsky.social

It’s Not Trump. It’s America. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

Opinion | It’s Not Trump. It’s America.

I wrote about the price of the illusion of American omnipotence that’s driving this reckless war in Iran, and so much else. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

Line charts seem straightforward, but there's a lot one can do to improve them! For presidential approval ratings, colors, averages, and annotations can make all the difference. 🎨 🪧 📈

Hear from Datawrapper's co-founder and visual journalist @driven-by-data.net:

www.datawrapper.de/blog/fix-my-...

A quick update to ziptbl.com: you can now open shared data directly in @datawrapper.de!

The video shows the full flow: load data into Ziptable > share the link > create a 📊 in Datawrapper

As always: the data stays off any servers until you send it to Datawrapper - it's just compressed in the url

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server.

🔗 ziptbl.com

It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved.

Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data:
ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

Labels on these scatterplots brought to you by `avoid-overlap` — my library for automatic label placement on charts. Let me know how it goes if you give it a shot. github.com/kevinschaul/...

I've seen a lot of chatter today about Instagram ending support for optional End-to-End Encrypted DMs.

I helped to lead on cryptography and privacy for E2EE in Messenger and Instagram for many years, until I left around 10 months ago, so it's disappointing to see it being removed from Instagram.

Map of Canada showing weather stations distributed unevenly as dots, colored by maximum temperature measured.

Map of Canada showing a temperature heatmap derived from the weather station data using random-work interpolation.

Say hello to the Raster mark in SveltePlot! Starting with v0.12 you can use it to create raster heatmaps from gridded and ungridded data! Again, this wouldn't be possible without @observablehq.com plot 💚.

svelteplot.dev/marks/raster

- So hat Sachsen-Anhalt gewählt Sechs Parteien haben den Einzug in den Landtag von Sachsen-Anhalt der 8. Wahlperiode geschafft. Stärkste Fraktion wird erneut die CDU sein, der FDP gelang der Wiedereinzug. Die Wahlbeteiligung lag bei...

Und der Unterschied sind was, fünf Jahre? Ich glaube nicht mehr an irgendwelche Obergrenzen www.landtag.sachsen-anhalt.de/wahlergebnis

Globe of the Eastern hemisphere showing flight tracks between Frankfurt, Germany, and various destinations in Asia, including Mumbai, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Russia, Ukraine and Iran are highlighted.

With Russian, Ukrainian, and now also Iranian airspace closed, only a small passage remains for international flights from Europe to Asia. My colleague @zacys.bsky.social wrote about how some airlines are profiting more from this than others, and I created this map.
www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

There's been about a 10-point increase in support for attacking Iran since Feb 23, according to YouGov. That's driven entirely by Republicans rallying around Trump

Second reason is that I wanted to fully control the player UI, autoplay, the scrub bar, overlays etc. With standard players like YouTube you’re limited in that regard.

I wanted to be able to adjust the video crop last-minute (without re-rendering), so I didn’t want to bake the timestamps into the frames. And I had just built a custom video player for a separate project - with support for HTML subtitles - so this was a nice use case.

And when I say "I", I mean: me with a little help from AI agents.

Don't really know what ownership means these days, as it feels like someone else is doing the hard work. So thanks to all the open-source contributors whose code made it into the LLM training data, I guess 💚

Straße von Hormus: So legt der Krieg die Straße von Hormus lahm Seit Samstag droht der Iran damit, Schiffe anzugreifen, die die Straße von Hormus passieren. Sehen Sie hier, welche Folgen das für den Verkehr in der Meerenge hat.

I made an animated map of ship movements in the Straights of Hormuz using data from marinetraffic.com.

Ship track frames rendered using #ggplot, base map created using #gdal, video editing using #ffmpeg, video player written in #svelte.

🎁 www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

Trump helps MAGA influencers flee Middle East war zone on private jet Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz, dogwalker Sarah Daither, former lobbyist Jay Footlik, and others managed to escape on a private plane thanks to the White House.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

Of course, solid showing of the "you must never truncate your y-axis" fraction in the comment section of our article 😄

Screenshot of the ZEIT homepage on Monday, March 2. It features a line chart showing the surge of intraday crude oil price following the attacks on Iran.

Screenshot of the ZEIT homepage on Monday, March 2. It features a line chart showing the surge of intraday crude oil price following the attacks on Iran.

📈 SveltePlot is on the DIE ZEIT homepage again! www.zeit.de/index

I’ve drawn a newspaper, and it’s called ‘The Daily News’ and the headline says “ For Fuck’s Sake, What Now?!’ and there’s an article below it with a picture of a guy in a big red tie and shit hair. Actually a pretty good drawing of a newspaper to be honest, really happy with it. Its got an imperceptible beige to it and I even did some nice shadows and everything. Nailed it.

Today's episode in the series of beautiful maps

Ah, ja das ist genau das Video was ich gern in dem Artikel gehabt hätte. Schade dass es nicht verlinkt war. Aber das schaffen wir bestimmt auch noch 😅