Oh nice, this is actually something I very specifically wanted for https://ant.care/! I was trying to have the background sky for the ant farm be reflective of the user's current environment, but I didn't do anything more than a naïve approach. Maybe I'll work on adopting your approach at some point :) Still a bit torn on if the whole thing should be Rust/WASM or just the core simulation in Rust and defer as much as possible to JS/HTML.
Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
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Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
#42Beautiful, thank you!
Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
#43Why doesn't it respect dark mode??? ;)
Wait a few hours
Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
#44> the little-known meta http-equiv="Refresh" HTML tag Oh, don't mind me, I'll just be over here in the corner laughing ruefully as my bones crumble to dust: back when I started, if you wanted a page to refresh on its own, this was the only way. Beautiful work! A splendid example of formal minimalism at its best.
I can’t wait till they hear about framesets
Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you! And umm, not to make you feel ancient, but I think I wasn't even alive yet when `setTimeout(() => location.reload(), ...)` first became widely available.
Oh, don't worry about it at all, and I don't just mean in my own case. Every generation learns to age graciously or otherwise, partly through experience, and for me it's a regular source of joy to see you young 'uns independently rediscover things I long since quit bothering to remember.
Honestly it’s kind of cute, I had all but forgotten about http-equiv
Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
#46> the little-known meta http-equiv="Refresh" HTML tag Oh, don't mind me, I'll just be over here in the corner laughing ruefully as my bones crumble to dust: back when I started, if you wanted a page to refresh on its own, this was the only way. Beautiful work! A splendid example of formal minimalism at its best.
Of course, the "http-equiv" means that this tag is supposed to stand in for an equivalent HTTP header, so you could accomplish the same by sending a "Refresh: 60" header :)
Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
#47Useful, saves me looking at the thing.
Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
#48Curious why a celebration of HTML needed a full stack javascript framework?
Astro is a great way to write HTML
Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
#49would love this to be a desktop background -- linux or macOS
I just did some googling and found at least one app to do exactly this on Android. This is now my phone background!!
(I used this, but it does leave a small "please purchase" banner at the top, until you pay: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nuko.livew...)
Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
#50Awesome. I remember much earlier in my career I was working on a 3D turn-by-turn navigation software, and one of my tasks was to draw the sky in the background. The more senior guy on the team said, just draw a blue rectangle during the day and a dark gray one at night and call it job done. Of course, I had to do it the hard way, so I looked up the relevant literature on sky rendering based on the environment, latitu…
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