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No, I had actually never heard of fortune, but I will look into it now :) I am currently just hand selecting the content and storing it in a database. Nothing fancy.
> I had actually never heard of fortune A long, long time ago in this galaxy, this was the first program to run when a user logged in/opened a new terminal. Not on every system of course.
If it's possible to do it in a very subtle manner (footer?), maybe a small tweet icon would be nice (for quotes add the quote to tweet, for videos add the video link)
http://inspiry.tumblr.com/post/454443506/minimotivation
And of course thanks to HN for most the content there.
The text is way too big for me to easily read it.
I've set it as my startup page in FF. It's a good way to start work/browsing.
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No, I had actually never heard of fortune, but I will look into it now :) I am currently just hand selecting the content and storing it in a database. Nothing fancy.
> I had actually never heard of fortune A long, long time ago in this galaxy, this was the first program to run when a user logged in/opened a new terminal. Not on every system of course.
It would have been nice to add that feature by using your site and grabbing a quote instead of having to find the quotes myself and creating the code (even though it was just roughly an hour).
So maybe make an API for it with one command: "Get". You could return a json object or xml or whatever. {"quote":"blablabla", "author": "Henry the Third"}
It seems like an overkill, though :-)
Looks great! Would be really fun to add this to a monitor or picture-frame which would auto-refresh every so often. One suggestion: Add attribution to the XKCD images and don't steal their bandwidth. I got this one as a motivation earlier: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png
I don't consider it "stealing their bandwidth" though, as XKCD explicitly allows hotlinking - http://xkcd.com/license.html
Nice. And added to my little inspiration collection :) http://inspiry.tumblr.com/post/454443506/minimotivation And of course thanks to HN for most the content there.
Love the simple, clean design without any distractions. Great idea too. Are you manually adding the quotes/vidoes? If it's possible to do it in a very subtle manner (footer?), maybe a small tweet icon would be nice (for quotes add the quote to tweet, for videos add the video link)
I like the idea of integrating with twitter, facebook, buzz, etc. I will be looking into it.