As an aside: this is the first time I’ve seen scrolling the page implemented with history. This feels like an anti-pattern; I had to hit back 4 times to return to HN.
I couldn't get Firefox Preview on mobile to get back to HN.
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Show HN: TheKnob – sound volume control knob made of concrete and RGB lights
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Re: Show HN: TheKnob – sound volume control knob made of concrete and RGB lights
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure what pisses me off more. That, or the music autoplaying.
Or breaking the back button
People just need to know when to use replaceState instead of pushState.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/rep...
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#45Really neat little project! I would have loved to paid more attention but easily the most unusable website I've used in a while. Like seriously, it's awful if you scroll up an down a couple times because you're pushing URL changes. Then because everything animates it starts chugging a long, doing weird shit, like not going back. It's a single page it doesn't need to change the fucking URL or even worse animate those…
yeah, I also cannot scroll it with my finger. I had to connect a mouse to my touch screen computer just to scroll the page.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was just checking to see if someone else had posted the link. I think that the concept of a knob made of concrete could definitely be made through independent invention given that concrete is a popular aesthetic right now, but it still wiggles it's eyebrows...
DIY Perks is credited in the Thingiverse page. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4424564 > So, driven by the idea, I began to look for some inspiration and finally found this awesome video made by DIY Perks youtu.be/sJ5vhShdVjo I am starting to develop.
Super glad to hear!
Re: Show HN: TheKnob – sound volume control knob made of concrete and RGB lights
#47Really neat little project! I would have loved to paid more attention but easily the most unusable website I've used in a while. Like seriously, it's awful if you scroll up an down a couple times because you're pushing URL changes. Then because everything animates it starts chugging a long, doing weird shit, like not going back. It's a single page it doesn't need to change the fucking URL or even worse animate those…
yeah, I also cannot scroll it with my finger. I had to connect a mouse to my touch screen computer just to scroll the page.
See? If you owned a Knob, you could have used it as a scroll wheel, and you wouldn't have had to connect your mouse! ;)
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or breaking the back button
People just need to know when to use replaceState instead of pushState. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/rep...
pushState maybe sometimes used but replaceState should never be used.
Seriously, many times I was on a website where scrawling introduce you to new article but it also replace the URL oh, now I wanted to go back to the original article because I wanted to share with you but I couldn't. at least with a push State I could retrace my steps and not rely on the developer guessing where I might have been going.
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#49So it's a PowerMate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin_PowerMate ) except made from concrete? (Huh, apparently Griffin stopped making them in 2018, so I guess there's room for a replacement. I covet one every time I remember they exist but I never quite covet one enough to actually want to spend the money getting one...)
"Huh, apparently Griffin stopped making them in 2018, so I guess there's room for a replacement."
Teenage Engineering makes one of these:
https://teenage.engineering/products/orthoremote
It is designed as a remote volume control for one of their synths but it is a generic bluetooth volume control device that can be used with anything.
I have one - very nice and very high build quality.
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#50Whoever designed this train wreck of a web page should be tarred, feathered, and publicly flogged on national television as a warning to anyone that might be tempted to make something similar.