Last but not least, even though there're various people who've been contributing with occasional bug reports and pull requests, the thi.ng project has largely been a solo effort for over 10 years and some of the most meaningful long term support has always been financial, allowing me to continue working on these tools and sharing them with the world. By sheer size (and vastly greater scope) the #ThingUmbrella code base is almost 5x(!!!) bigger than p5.js (even though it's _not directly comparable_, but most people/users do know of it...)

If you want to help funding this work, please use one of the links below! Thank you VERY much in advance (and boosts very much appreciated too)!

https://github.com/sponsors/postspectacular
https://www.patreon.com/thing_umbrella

Peace & all the best (to us all) for 2024!

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A short overview of end-of-2023 state of thi.ng(s) (https://thi.ng/umbrella only!):

96 releases done in 2023 (i.e. every 3.6 days on average)

188 projects/packages (+12 this year)
151 example projects (+32 this year)

3,865 source files
144,432 lines of code
54,155 docs/comments (37% or 2.66 lines of code-to-comment ratio)
198,587 total SLOC

Readme files (for all 188 packages):

49,580 total words
189,978 lines

A lot of activity this year was spent on adding/improving documentation & creating new examples to illustrate general usage patterns. From August till October I published 30 chapters of #HowToThing aka heavily commented code examples & mini-tutorials, incl. ~20 new example projects which are now part of the monorepo. Just like the overall project scope, these chapters covered anything from audio synthesis, data transformations, DSLs, geometry, generative art/design, GIS, image processing, Mastodon client, reactive UIs (NOT using React!), shaders, other visualizations and more... Check out the hashtag to view them (full list is also part of the thi.ng/umbrella readme).

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