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Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

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Post by throwanem »

mintplant wrote: post #46
throwanem wrote: post #3

> 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 :)

Sure, if you wanted to deal with configuring Apache. Or getting your hosting provider to do that. If you knew to ask, and didn't mind waiting, and your hosting provider knew how...

Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

ryandrake wrote: post #7

Awesome. 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…

To be honest I don’t think anyone wants that kind of functionality - maybe in the satellite view but not in the vector map.

Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

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Post by [deleted] »

dnlzro wrote: post #20
djoldman wrote: post #18

@dlazaro, I believe that style={{backgroundColor: bottom}} is not needed in: is not needed.

I actually included that so the tab and status bars are themed on iOS/Safari. Here's someone else's writeup on that: https://medium.com/@evkirkiles/coloring-the-webkit-browser-b...

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Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

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Post by ryandrake »

jbverschoor wrote: post #36
ryandrake wrote: post #7

Awesome. 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…

Whipping down the innovator with the stupidity whip. Great management

A foundational, core theme about making commercial software, that repeats over and over and I slowly got accustomed to is: companies really don't want these kinds of micro-innovations. 90% of companies are just looking at their competitors, making a checklist out of those products, and asking engineers to check the boxes and go home. They don't care about little details, about craftsmanship and polish, about lint warnings, about "oh, that's a nice touch," or even quality beyond "will the customer return the product?" They just want people to poop out software as fast as possible so everyone can get bonuses and drive around on their jetskis on Saturday.

If you're the kind of developer who likes to "sand and finish the back side of the cabinet," either you need to find a very rare, special company, or do it at home as a hobby.

Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

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Post by otikik »

zarzavat wrote: post #32
ryandrake wrote: post #7

Awesome. 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…

You should have added a duck.

I understood that reference
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