Grafana Labs Made a Taylor Swift Dashboard

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Grafana Labs created a Taylor Swift-themed dashboard to demonstrate their data visualization capabilities, sparking discussion about creative uses of data visualization tools and the intersection of tech and pop culture.

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CaptainOfCoit

3 months ago

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> In the Swiftie-verse, an “Easter egg” refers to a hidden clue or detail that Taylor plants in her work to suggest something big (like a new album) is coming

I refuse to believe that the authors actually think Taylor Swift invented the "Easter Egg", is this the engineering version of discussion-bait?

Besides, not much of an easter egg if you give it away in the very next paragraph, that name kinda implies how you're supposed to do it.

motoxpro

3 months ago

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I think they we're just defining what Easter egg meant in this context.

The fact that it has an "Easter egg," in this context, is more of a more meta nod, rather than it being a hidden thing you have to find, since that is a large part of the culture.

And who knows, maybe there are others that they didn't show!

CaptainOfCoit

3 months ago

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> I think they we're just defining what Easter egg meant in this context.

I disagree, they're explicitly claiming it's a "Swiftie-verse" thing, not something that has existed for decades already.

> The fact that it has an "Easter egg," in this context, is more of a more meta nod, rather than it being a hidden thing you have to find

I guess what I'm trying to say is calling something an "easter egg" and then describe exactly how to find it, makes it very not an easter egg anymore, you don't receive instructions for how to find the egg before you go searching for it, that would ruin the whole idea.

exitb

3 months ago

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When you google „Taylor Swift easter eggs”, you’ll see that it’s a more specific thing than just „easter egg”, similarly how it has a more specific meaning in software.

CaptainOfCoit

3 months ago

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I googled that, and it seems to mean something like "Something hidden you can find" which is the same across all other contexts. What exactly is so special about Swift's easter eggs compared to others? It's how everyone else uses them too, like referencing past/future events and so on.

rimunroe

3 months ago

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Easter eggs can contain basically anything. In a video game I'd expect an easter egg to be anything from a secret weird level or item, a nod to another game/movie, or a picture of one of the developers' pets. As that bit you quoted from the story was trying to make clear, in the context of Taylor Swift, "easter eggs" are a much more specific and are often hints about what will happen next. This seems like a very reasonable clarification to make, and to my eyes doesn't imply that Swifties invented the term.

CaptainOfCoit

3 months ago

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> in the context of Taylor Swift, "easter eggs" are a much more specific and are often hints about what will happen next

Right. Do you think they would still be called easter eggs if Taylor Swift didn't just place hints, but also told people about the hints, exactly how to find them and what they meant?

rimunroe

3 months ago

No, of course not. Why would they? It’s not trying to explain what Easter eggs are in general, nor is it acting like Swifties coined the term. The article is trying to explain that in the context of Taylor Swift, easter eggs are usually about upcoming projects or such things.

The article could have said “‘Easter egg’ is a term which means a bit of information or a feature which is left hidden as a surprise for people to find. In the context of Taylor Swift, easter eggs are hidden bits of information which often point at upcoming projects.” That would be overly wordy and unnecessary though because most people already know what Easter eggs are and thus won’t assume it’s claiming that Swifties invented the term.

motoxpro

3 months ago

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I agree that that is what the word and phrase means, however in THIS context, it means something different.

It doesn't ruin the idea if the idea is to share that it has easter eggs. If they didn't create, share and "ruin" it, they would have omitted an important feature (to put it in software terms)

They don't want the reader to go and find it, they are overlaying ideas from the "Swiftie-verse" onto a tech platform and THAT is the fun part. It's just a little fun blog.

CaptainOfCoit

3 months ago

You're talking about a cultural reference, or similar, which isn't the same as an easter egg, although an easter egg can be a cultural reference, vice-versa isn't necessarily true.

sjoedev

3 months ago

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> In the Swiftie-verse, an “Easter egg” refers to a hidden clue or detail that Taylor plants in her work …

I don’t see this as meaningfully different than, for example:

> In the computing world, “Java” refers to a programming language …

Which seems totally fine to me.

CaptainOfCoit

3 months ago

No, it's more like saying "In the context of Java, addition refers to the concept of adding two numbers" which yeah, I guess is technically true but the concept of adding was not invented in Java nor works differently in Java, it's a general math thing. Writing it that way implies that somehow addition works different in Java, which it doesn't.

philipallstar

3 months ago

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> I refuse to believe that the authors actually think Taylor Swift invented the "Easter Egg"

In the words of the first ever female action star, Jennifer Lawrence, "People will believe anything if they know nothing."

comprev

3 months ago

"Never trust what you read on the Internet" - Einstein

lloydatkinson

3 months ago

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So this is what they do when they aren’t reinventing their metrics database engine for the fifth time?

nopzor

3 months ago

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we “reinvented” our metrics database engine 5 times? that’s news to me! :-)

lloydatkinson

3 months ago

Enough times for it to be noticed yes.

1970-01-01

3 months ago

This is a very interesting way to get someone to notice both your product and the flexibility of your product. Not your typical ad/demo. Kudos to Grafana.

mightypirate

3 months ago

they should add co2 emissions from her private jet

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