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Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by jraph »

HelloUsername wrote: post #14

Can't "What a ", ", huh?" and "Captain, it's " be hard-coded / image? Also, nearing the end of the day/week/month/year, the meme doesn't really makes sense anymore..

> Can't "What a ", ", huh?" and "Captain, it's " be hard-coded / image?

That would be more work with the risk of things being misplaced because you'd need to figure out alignment. The font will also not be rendered the same way, adding some small imperfections. The SVG text is also more accessible.

I believe sending the text as an SVG text is a vastly superior solution in every way :-)

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by jraph »

FearNotDaniel wrote: post #15

> Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP I was scratching my head for a while wondering why you need an IP address to determine the current time… I’m inferring this means geo-locating the IP to determine the client’s time zone and then using that to convert server time to the user’s local time, right? Makes me think, it would be nice if there was a standard request header to specify pr…

It could be a get parameter, with a picker allowing you to select your timezone.

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by pavlov »

FearNotDaniel wrote: post #15

> Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP I was scratching my head for a while wondering why you need an IP address to determine the current time… I’m inferring this means geo-locating the IP to determine the client’s time zone and then using that to convert server time to the user’s local time, right? Makes me think, it would be nice if there was a standard request header to specify pr…

> “why Tintin is trending at the moment”

The Tintin character entered public domain in many countries in January 2025.

I think this “What a week” image is from a 1930 album (“The Crab with the Golden Claws”), so it’s part of the public domain now and can legally be used for things like this meme generator.

The situation in EU is different though. Hergé died in 1983, and I think his entire oeuvre has 75 years of protection after his death. I’m not 100% sure.

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by frizlab »

azaaaz wrote: post #34

Thanks for this haha :) I would love to it translated in other languages (this meme is international), especially in French, Hergé[0]'s original language. It may be a good idea to open-source it ! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herg%c3%a9

Tangentially related, in English (and most languages) there are usually no spaces (or non-breaking spaces, which is the correct space before a punctuation marks in French) before the exclamation point (and interrogation point, semicolon and colon).

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

FearNotDaniel wrote: post #15

> Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP I was scratching my head for a while wondering why you need an IP address to determine the current time… I’m inferring this means geo-locating the IP to determine the client’s time zone and then using that to convert server time to the user’s local time, right? Makes me think, it would be nice if there was a standard request header to specify pr…

I assumed something like this header already existed because it's such an obvious need, but...

> All HTTP date/time stamps MUST be represented in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), without exception.

according to [rfc2616](https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3....). Presumably that makes a lot of awkward conversions unnecessary, but a separate TZ header would be a great addition.

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

timlyo wrote: post #25
lgas wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It could be opt-out/opt-in and then all six users that care about privacy could do as they wished.

Sadly that almost makes things worse, if it's off then it's a data point that helps to id privacy conscious people.

Just use a default (GMT) for people who don't want to disclose it.
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