Learned D3 at Businessweek, started using Observable to do my job at Kensho, took time off to write notebooks about Mayans and Galton, moved to San Francisco to work for Observable. Now work for it remotely from the Berkshires where my wife runs Avaloch.
It could be useful to highlight that the set(v) {} function shouldn't trigger an input event. Realizing this helped me debugging some of my custom inputs