Very cool, if true

I was chatting to a couple of friends last week, and realised that I really fancied having one of those "bar chart race" videos for my links, showing what had been the most popular links over the last 21 years that I've been saving links (to Delicious, and then Pinboard).

So I downloaded the JSON blob of my whole link history, used some PowerShell to slice and dice it into a CSV, and uploaded it to a site that converts a bunch of data with dates into a bar chart race. And voila:

Unsurprising to see "Europe" break the top 20 in 2017. Followed a year later by "OhForFucksSake".

Both files available here, for the very curious.

1. Netflix announces deal to buy Warner Bros. and HBO

(tags:WarnerBrothers HBO netflix )

2. Did Rachel Reeves mislead the public ahead of the Budget?

(tags:budget UK FactCheck politics )

3. Visualising Klotski (fantastic 3d visualisations of possibilities)

(tags:video game viaSwampers visualisation )

4. 'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery

(tags:muppets mysteries video satire )

5. Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble

(tags:AI investment insurance )

6. Original version of Star Wars Returns to Theaters for 50th Anniversary

(tags:StarWars movies )

7. Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.

(tags:LGBT bigotry transgender gaming women )

8. Adenosine as the metabolic common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox

(tags:depression )

9. The USA is officially removing itself from positive engagement in world affairs.

(tags:USA politics diplomacy NATO )

10. Edinburgh confirms Visitor Levy affordable housing spend

(tags:Edinburgh housing GoodNews )

1. Women are three times more likely than men to get severe long COVID

(tags:women Pandemic )

2. We've found a biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

(tags:babies death )

3. Chinese Authorities Shut Down Film Festival in New York (By harrassing filmmakers and their families)

(tags:china censorship movies usa OhForFucksSake )

4. The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins

(tags:architecture history )

5. What do voters think would count as Labour breaking their promises on tax?

(tags:tax labour polls politics uk )

6. A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by Half (trial only lasted 60 days)

(tags:genetics health )

7. Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans

(tags:history USA maps visualisation )

8. Why didn't Democrats codify Roe v. Wade when Obama had a fillibuster proof majority in 2009?

(tags:abortion politics USA )

1. Have you experience the glory that is "It's Raining Tacos"? Because my children have subjected me to it over 5,000 times now...

(tags:music video children food funny )

2. Mapping Edinburgh planning applications

(tags:Edinburgh planning maps visualisation )

3. The UK's North-South divide in transport funding - mapped

(tags:uk transport government money )

4. AI - where are we now?

(tags:ai programming globalwarming economics )

1. Craftlings - Lemmings meets Settlers meets Terraria

(tags:games video trailer )

2. Autonomous drone from TU Delft defeats human champions in historic racing first

(tags:automation drone ai race )

3. What are people doing right now?

(tags:people humans visualisation viaLinkMachineGo )

1. Why would people rate a ten hour film about paint drying so highly, and how does the creator feel about it?

(tags:painting movies video weird community viaSwampers )

2. EU patience 'wearing thin' in Brussels over Starmer's Brexit reset

(tags:UK Europe doom )

3. How the UK's biggest solar project could be shaped by sheep farmers

(tags:sheep solarpower UK )

4. USDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websites

(tags:USA globalwarming viaElfy OhForFucksSake censorship )

5. Platypus venom is what led to Ozempic!

(tags:viaDrJon diabetes )

6. The four questions from the Lucy Letby case as defence to unveil new evidence

(tags:murder law evidence )

7. Reminder that working more than 40 hours per week produces *negative* marginal gains if you do if for more than a few weeks.

(tags:work working_hours efficiency )

8. Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space

(tags:books visualisation )

9. basically every video essay (in 14 seconds)

(tags:funny video videos satire )

1. Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, Calming Distraction Does

(tags:anger psychology )

2. Why Is It So Tricky to Accurately Show the Sun, Earth, and Moon in a Diagram?

(tags:space visualisation )

3. Farming tax row - BBC Verify on which figures are more reliable and why

(tags:farming death tax UK )

4. Why Edinburgh isn't as prepared for snow as Montreal

(tags:snow Canada )

1. Starmer's Brexit reset is stalling - and insiders in Brussels are worried

(tags:UK Europe doom Labour OhForFucksSake )

2. 70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror's army

(tags:uk inequality land )

3. The Mystery of How Agatha Christie Could Afford a Maid and a Nanny but Not a Car

(tags:history economics )

4. PETA's Animal "Shelter" Continues as a Leader in Animal Death

(tags:PETA pets death )

5. AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias

(tags:ai racism sexism names jobs )

6. 60% of Britain's Brexit pain is still to come, admits Treasury minister

(tags:uk europe trade doom )

7. The 'light sabre' wielding photographer creating colourful light paintings

(tags:light art photography )

8. When you visualise spacetime curving you're probably doing it wrong.

(tags:physics visualisation )

1. How crypto bros wrested Flappy Bird from its creator

(tags:games Blockchain OhForFucksSake )

2. John Peralta Explodes Historic Technology into Three-Dimensional Diagrams

(tags:Technology visualisation 3d )

3. LBC: Soldier's seven-year-old son refused passport by Home Office because of 'copyright' issues over blockbuster name (they then thankfully changed their minds)

(tags:copyright names passport UK OhForFucksSake children )

4. The trailer for "Mickey 17" looks like a lot of fun.

(tags:scifi trailer )

1. Who wants to see the very first piece of slash fic?

(tags:slash fanfic StarTrek history )

2. The amount of information on this page about different places' weather is frankly staggering.

(tags:weather visualisation viaSwampers )