The Whimsical Website Club • Hacker News Board

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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Post by simonsarris » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 10:59 PM UTC

LOL at the button after the submission form. I submitted https://simonsarris.com because of my ridiculous background (a town that builds with CSS animations, and birds that appear to have no set path done with pure CSS).

The logic behind the little birds: they are DIVs with CSS animated on a cubic path up-and-down, while their ::after is getting animated on a different cubic path left-to-right. The result of 2 separate axis animations: They do a loose figure-8 path that's different each pass.

That CSS code is here: https://github.com/simonsarris/site-simonsarris/blob/master/...

I am currently trying to make my site background considerably more ridiculous by re-implementing in canvas, with lots of interaction and a night/day sequence, and custom buildings. The rebuild so far is open source here: https://simonsarris.github.io/simeville/

Click the button to build a town. Drag the sun down to see night time (and the constellations). I need to spend a lot of time working on the art, but I'm not a very good artist yet.

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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Post by nikisweeting » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:29 PM UTC

I nominate @benjojo's personal site which spawns a full on interactive linux VM running in the background for each visitor. https://benjojo.co.uk/

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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Post by nmfisher » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 12:23 AM UTC

waprin wrote: post #19

I love this, I also miss the more fun side of the internet that seems to be dwindling. The best whimsical site I've seen in a while is https://hannahblair.co.uk/ , she made a whole Windows 95 Desktop remake as her personal site, including some remakes of some classic software, it's really amazing!

Amusing that her Behance profile says she's 21 - meaning she probably wasn't even alive when Windows 95 was released, and certainly almost never used it!

I guess retro isn't just to satisfy nostalgia.

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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Post by plorntus » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 12:56 AM UTC

nmfisher wrote: post #23

waprin wrote: post #19

I love this, I also miss the more fun side of the internet that seems to be dwindling. The best whimsical site I've seen in a while is https://hannahblair.co.uk/ , she made a whole Windows 95 Desktop remake as her personal site, including some remakes of some classic software, it's really amazing!

Amusing that her Behance profile says she's 21 - meaning she probably wasn't even alive when Windows 95 was released, and certainly almost never used it! I guess retro isn't just to satisfy nostalgia.

Not necessarily, I'm only a couple years older and school computers were always incredibly out of date and running 95/98/2000

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 1:21 AM UTC

ryantgtg wrote: post #17

Fun and inspiring. I once made a site devoted to McGriddle fan fiction that has a cool McGriddle gif, and each layer of the McGriddle image hides a surprise. http://blueskiesabove.us/mcgriddle/ Not sure if that's whimsical or...

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Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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Post by rakic » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 5:15 AM UTC

When you drag a finger (or a clicked mouse cursor) on https://xn--bj8a.com/404/ page, there is a burst of logos (144 per second) coming underneath.

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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Post by theodric » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 5:28 AM UTC

Absolutely fuck this site for playing a loud noise when you click the "joy" link. I don't associate jump scares with joy.

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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Post by lemonberry » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 7:25 AM UTC

benatkin wrote: post #12

My favorite is https://www.11ty.dev/ - not the first time I've seen it but good to be reminded of it! Here's the twitter thread about their logo: https://twitter.com/jameswillweb/status/999052022497316865

11ty is a great little static site generator. I just started playing with it. Fun to use and seems to have a lot of power behind it's apparent simplicity.

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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Post by skytreader » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 7:32 AM UTC

gkoberger wrote: post #10

I love this so much. Software has gotten so boring. OSX used to have a ton of fun weird little things (like the poof when you removed an app) that have all been removed. Same with Google. I miss it. One of our company values is "Err on the side of whimsy," and it's my far my favorite one... life's too short to not make things a bit weird fun and interesting. (Also, for people who haven't seen it, also check out https…

Care to share your company then? Or your products/website that I can take a look at?

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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Post by gkoberger » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 7:36 AM UTC

skytreader wrote: post #29

gkoberger wrote: post #10

I love this so much. Software has gotten so boring. OSX used to have a ton of fun weird little things (like the poof when you removed an app) that have all been removed. Same with Google. I miss it. One of our company values is "Err on the side of whimsy," and it's my far my favorite one... life's too short to not make things a bit weird fun and interesting. (Also, for people who haven't seen it, also check out https…

Care to share your company then? Or your products/website that I can take a look at?

Company is ReadMe.com :) Here's our handbook with the values: https://readme.com/handbook