[ptvan]

as a designer (not a coder as much), tributary helps me realize my concepts quicker by helping with some of the technical stuff like automagically linking csv and json files. my go-to workflow is finding a d3.js example (e.g. from bostock's blocks http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ ) that has some components in common with what i want to accomplish, and then hacking/repurposing it to get what i need. sharing my tributary inlets makes it super easy to get feedback on what im doing wrong, and changing variables with sliders is now difficult to live without.

being able to change the parameters of animations/simulations and see the results in real time is pretty incredible.