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Re: Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

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Post by tim_church » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 2:34 PM UTC

arnorhs wrote: post #34

aw3c2 wrote: post #20

The text is way too big for me to easily read it.

It would be great to be able to adjust the font size...?

Probably not the solution you are looking for, but you can always use your browser to zoom out or make the text smaller.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

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Post by mikecane » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 3:09 PM UTC

Is there any possibility of having a distinct URL for each quote, so I could pass it along? Of course, if you plan to tie into Twitter, etc, you'd want that, no?

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

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Post by mrduncan » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 3:12 PM UTC

tim_church wrote: post #38

mrduncan wrote: post #29

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

Added the attribution and link to XKCD. I don't consider it "stealing their bandwidth" though, as XKCD explicitly allows hotlinking - http://xkcd.com/license.html

Awesome, I had no idea that XKCD encouraged people to do that - major props to them!

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

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Post by csomar » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 3:15 PM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #20

The text is way too big for me to easily read it.

Ctr - - -

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

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Post by csomar » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 3:17 PM UTC

Refresh the page? Why not use jQuery Ajax function to call the server side script.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

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Post by jmhobbs » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 3:38 PM UTC

Cool, looks similar to something I made last month :-)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128574 http://github.com/jmhobbs/consume-less-create-more http://www.consumelesscreatemore.com/

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

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Post by richardburton » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 3:47 PM UTC

This video just came up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDnrLv6z-mM&feature=playe...

It blew me away.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

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Post by sw1205 » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 4:44 PM UTC

This is just brilliant! Great work! I think you should be able to click the quote to go to the next one rather than having to go to the bottom of the page and click refresh. Other than that I loved it!

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

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Post by aw3c2 » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 4:47 PM UTC

csomar wrote: post #44

aw3c2 wrote: post #20

The text is way too big for me to easily read it.

Ctr - - -

I was giving feedback. I know how to use my browser but that is hardly convenient. ;-)

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

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Post by tonystubblebine » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 5:03 PM UTC

mapleoin wrote: post #21

vrotaru wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like fortune for the web. Are you using fortune as a backend, or for quotes?

I was just thinking about that and making my own website using fortune. You spoiled the surprise.

I did put fortune on the web already, complete with an API that you can call from your .bashrc. http://www.iheartquotes.com

You should also consider making this a Twitter account. That's actually where IHQ has gotten the most traction.