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Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by wongarsu » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 2:16 PM UTC

Tade0 wrote: post #38

benguild wrote: post #15

This reminds me of putting marquees in the window.status like 20 years ago

The spirit is there definitely. My take is that it's only a matter of time before emojis creep into every area where text is used. Let's hope they won't ever become a mainstream part of programming languages.

The most-used emojis are designed as a language of emotions, making them ill-suited for most programming projects. But that doesn't mean that there aren't emojis that would be very useful in programming. Emojis just aren't used because we lack good input methods for them (outside of smartphones)

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by RandallBrown » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 2:25 PM UTC

Tade0 wrote: post #38

benguild wrote: post #15

This reminds me of putting marquees in the window.status like 20 years ago

The spirit is there definitely. My take is that it's only a matter of time before emojis creep into every area where text is used. Let's hope they won't ever become a mainstream part of programming languages.

Swift lets you use any unicode characters, so emoji are perfectly valid variable names.

I've seen some "cute" github projects that use them, but they're obviously not for real life use since emojis are tough to type.

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by duxup » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 2:32 PM UTC

mikepurvis wrote: post #90

aasasd wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Youtube poops and endless music video memes are some of the best things to come out of the meme culture. Because folk culture is now truly ‘multimedia’ and we have a horde of people for whom hyperactive video and sound editing is second nature. Now just to wait for when it becomes mainstream and commoditized like graphics editing. I'm hoping for about the same fate for knowledge visualization techniques—might see it…

A nice side effect of it being so commonplace now is that most youtubers are doing their own editing, meaning the jokes and queues are very authentic to their personality and intent, vs having to be inserted after the fact by a separate professional who just wants to get the job done. See for example shows like Laymen Gaming or Girlfriend Reviews, both of which are full of Arrested Development style cutaway gags.

> meaning the jokes and queues are very authentic to their personality and intent

I think that's less a thing than we maybe think. I think the medium crafts the message and even the messenger. There are certainly YouTube like "patterns" and I see a lot of channels eventually devolve into them. Time and again over time I see something I like and then they ever so slightly creep towards the YouTube drama stuff, and before you know it they're doing "reaction videos" and even if their other content is still active it just doesn't feel as authentic anymore.

Not to say I entirely disagree, but I do think the medium has a great deal of influence and IMO that impacts "authenticity" and etc.

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by kgwxd » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 2:36 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #80

kgwxd wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The abstract company villan has access to the locally stored history too.

That's what history.replaceState() instead of history.pushState() is for.

They have monitors on all javascript calls the browser makes too, "for security".

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by carc1n0gen » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 2:42 PM UTC

kkarakk wrote: post #7

wavyurl.com works amazingly well on chrome mobile but firefox mobile just puts the unicode characters there. BOO!

Working perfectly fine on my firefox

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by ofrobots » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 2:47 PM UTC

ballenf wrote: post #85

lifthrasiir wrote: post #60

This page will wreck your browser history. The post explains the rationale at the end, but frankly speaking there should have been the warning for each checkbox.

Your comment made me realize that there are people who curate their browser history (other than just removing problematic stuff). Not criticizing, just never considered that was something anyone cared about.

It made the back button useless for me.

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by craftycode » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 2:48 PM UTC

lifthrasiir wrote: post #60

This page will wreck your browser history. The post explains the rationale at the end, but frankly speaking there should have been the warning for each checkbox.

It shouldn't. It uses history.replaceState(). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API...

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by craftycode » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

ofrobots wrote: post #96

ballenf wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment made me realize that there are people who curate their browser history (other than just removing problematic stuff). Not criticizing, just never considered that was something anyone cared about.

It made the back button useless for me.

I didn't experience that using Chrome. What browser are you using?

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by daveFNbuck » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

ballenf wrote: post #85

lifthrasiir wrote: post #60

This page will wreck your browser history. The post explains the rationale at the end, but frankly speaking there should have been the warning for each checkbox.

Your comment made me realize that there are people who curate their browser history (other than just removing problematic stuff). Not criticizing, just never considered that was something anyone cared about.

If you curate your browser history, this is an easy fix. This is more of a problem for people like me who occasionally check their browser history because they want to revisit a site they were on recently.

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by wDcBKgt66V8WDs » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 2:54 PM UTC

MatthewRayfield wrote: post #66

peteforde wrote: post #44

I love the creativity of the hack, especially when he sync'd the video position with the scrubber. Respect. I also love the guy's vaguely deranged, Adult Swim -inspired commentary. I went from hater to fan in about 30 seconds, once I realized that he must idolize Tim Heidecker. Again, respect. However, what I love the most is how the video was composited and edited. What tools do you use to pull that together without…

Heyyyy thanks glad you enjoyed it! I was surprised to wake up and see this on Hacker News today. Thought I'd comment on the video editing: It is all pretty low tech. I use Adobe Premiere to edit and mostly just animate transform, scale, and crop effects to achieve everything. Like for the zooms you pointed out I double up a layer of the screencap and then crop and scale. It's a bit painstaking at times. Another littl…

Everything about this is great, I'm not a big video watcher but I just sat through that whole thing it was gold. The selfie direction flips, the interjections from you in another setting instead of chopping the video (both funny but also a nicer way to do it honestly). The concepts you're showing. All really good. Keep it up I'll be watching!