I wish they went into more detail about how the rendering happens. Compiling Doom to WebAssembly via Emscripten and running it in your browser is great, but it has been done before countless times. Taking the output and plotting it as a time series in Grafana...<i>that</i> is incredible.
It would be fun and practical to embed MicropolisJS (SimCity) in Grafana, expose its state as data sources, and use Grafana's dashboards, maps, and time series views to display the SimCity funds, population, city stats, demand gauges, financial overviews, history graphs, event logs, and interactive map overlays, to show off all the cool stuff that Grafana really shines at!<p><a href="https://www.graememcc.co.uk/micropolisJS/" rel="nofollow">https://www.graememcc.co.uk/micropolisJS/</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30585166" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30585166</a>
A rare exception to Betteridge's Law Of Headlines ("any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word <i>no</i>").<p>Possibly even a candidate for a consistent exception: any headline that asks if Turing-complete system can run Doom can be answered by the word <i>yes</i>.
Good use case for Grafana illustrating that it’s cool but pointless.<p>Why does anyone use Grafana with so many better alts? It’s clearly open source astroturf.