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Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme
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I miss StumbleUpon
Kagi Small Web has been fun to explore and reminds me a bit of the StumbleUpon of yore: https://kagi.com/smallweb If you'd like to read more: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
Also Wiby!
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(Thinking aloud) How I'd approach that: - you could render the page using puppeteer server-side, getClientRect/calc and apply the dimensions to the path, then spit back the markup, OR - you could use HTML + CSS to render the bubbles
"Tonight: Orange Reddit over-engineers a meme website that any normal person would just make with seven PNG files and getDay()."
you might be laughing now, but following the spirit of the Orange Website, I'm building a moat with all of that know-how
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#124Cute, but I find it funny to reach for Astro, a framework with over 400 dependencies, just for this. I'm sure it's super convenient, so maybe it's more of a principled take.
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#125How does the joke play out on Saturday or Sunday?
“Captain, it’s Sunday” … I don’t get it.
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#126> [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh > "In the episode, the character Liz Lemon, portrayed by Tina Fey, complains to character Jack Donaghy, portrayed by Alec Baldwin, about having finished a hard week of work, with Donaghey reminding her that it is still Wednesday" I don't know any context beyond what's in this clip of Liz Lemon saying it to Jack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z3uGyBM_1c but "what…
In writing classes, adding all of that unnecessary dialog is considered insulting to the audience. If you are trying to write a joke for the lowest denominator audience member, then you will alienate a larger portion of the audience. If every single joke needed that much additional context, it's not a funny joke. If you're going to require the writers to add that much dialog, you might as well ask them to add a laugh…
Truth be told, that's all the one of the differences between American and British comedy.
Slapstick is cool, but irony needs to be understood.
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#127Cute, but I find it funny to reach for Astro, a framework with over 400 dependencies, just for this. I'm sure it's super convenient, so maybe it's more of a principled take.
I chose it because it’s what I'm used to and because it makes it really easy to do SSR (I wanted no JS to be sent to the client).
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Yeah I think what killed the web was Google and Facebook. The former brought massive amounts of spam and the latter brought real identies which broke the freedom of the internet. Or in other words, both brought the Internet and made it real and connected with the real world. And I think that's not a good thing. The Internet was supposed to be a virtual space for exploration, learning, fun, and it should have had no b…
>The Internet ... should have had no bearing on our actual day-to-day living experience. Replace "The Internet" with previous communications technology and maybe that will demonstrate how completely unrealistic that sounds. Television should have had no bearing on our day-to-day existence? Phones? Radio? I guess you can arbitrarily draw the line at the Internet, sort of like the Amish did with electricity. But it see…
BBSes had absolutely no bearing on my day to day existence. No one had a job working at Big BBS and there was not a constant drumbeat of hustle culture strugglebussing surrounding the idea of using a modem to post messages.
This was the ideal final form of the internet and we lost it forever. Now, we have sludge.
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#129I thought it would be a hotlinkable image that updates.
Yeah.. it would be straight forward to make this into an image and make it so much more usable
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stumble was the algo sweet spot. an endless feed of things that are slightly better than being alone with my thoughts, but no parasocial "community" with concomitant toxicity.
Yeah I think what killed the web was Google and Facebook. The former brought massive amounts of spam and the latter brought real identies which broke the freedom of the internet. Or in other words, both brought the Internet and made it real and connected with the real world. And I think that's not a good thing. The Internet was supposed to be a virtual space for exploration, learning, fun, and it should have had no b…
I consider sites like facebook to be akin to diverting water from the Colorado river. At one point it looked like the nile delta from antiquity and today barely a trickle if that at some times reaches the sea with so much water diverted. The ecosystem diversity falls apart.