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Re: Hi, I'm David

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Post by Phileosopher »

motoxpro wrote: post #48

Man, I am glad they built this instead of them saying "Ah, load times are slow, scrap that idea." like it seems like a lot of people in this thread would do. Very very cool.

I may be wrong, but I've realized there are at least 3 classes of hacker:

1. The back-end PenTester who builds and destroys with nothing but terminals.

2. The engineer who transforms mundane objects into brilliant fixes, or fixes what everyone doesn't realize is broken.

3. The on-the-spectrum genius savant who makes mind-bending experiences that redefine how we see reality.

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Post by Waterluvian »

I saw a loading bar. Then a 3D balloon for 1 second. Then a black screen and broken webpage.

iOS Safari latest version on iPhone SE.

Edit: I’m providing a quick issue report. Not a criticism. Sheesh.

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Post by sabhiram »

TranquilMarmot wrote: post #16

It's a fun idea. I'm working on something similar for my personal site (a little interactive 3D sandbox with threejs and bullet physics). People saying that it's not small or that it doesn't load fast enough are kind of missing the point... it's supposed to be a showcase of some skills this person has, not a tiny fast site.

But when someone clicks on a link from a mobile browser and nothing happens - it leaves the viewer with the impression that things are broken when in reality the exposed use case was just not considered (or not deemed important). This also tells a great deal about the author in my opinion.

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Post by tclancy »

mattnewton wrote: post #21
gus_massa wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What browser are you using? In my machine it's fine in Chrome, Firefox and Edge.

It's broken on all mobile browsers I think

Works just fine on an iPhone X. The point of tech demos isn’t to let the person know if it works on a Motorola Razr. You’re not always the intended audience.

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Post by justusthane »

yobert wrote: post #24

I put an interactive cat on my resume and I'm pretty sure it literally got me the job. ( https://pkunk.org/resume/ ) A little fun goes a long way!

That's fun! Took me a second to realize it walks on top of the text.

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Post by michaelterryio »

sabhiram wrote: post #53
TranquilMarmot wrote: post #16

It's a fun idea. I'm working on something similar for my personal site (a little interactive 3D sandbox with threejs and bullet physics). People saying that it's not small or that it doesn't load fast enough are kind of missing the point... it's supposed to be a showcase of some skills this person has, not a tiny fast site.

But when someone clicks on a link from a mobile browser and nothing happens - it leaves the viewer with the impression that things are broken when in reality the exposed use case was just not considered (or not deemed important). This also tells a great deal about the author in my opinion.

True, that life is short and they are decent at cost/benefits.

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Post by lelandfe »

sabhiram wrote: post #53
TranquilMarmot wrote: post #16

It's a fun idea. I'm working on something similar for my personal site (a little interactive 3D sandbox with threejs and bullet physics). People saying that it's not small or that it doesn't load fast enough are kind of missing the point... it's supposed to be a showcase of some skills this person has, not a tiny fast site.

But when someone clicks on a link from a mobile browser and nothing happens - it leaves the viewer with the impression that things are broken when in reality the exposed use case was just not considered (or not deemed important). This also tells a great deal about the author in my opinion.

Then it's lucky the author has done well in their career despite it :)

As an aside, if the author is around, you could make 90% of the site's font rendering become immediate very easily. The biggest things would be self-hosting the FA and Google Fonts stuff, and moving the TypeKit include to an async JS approach.

After that, you could restrict the preloader progress bar to just the balloon portion.

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Post by TedHartDavis »

yobert wrote: post #24

I put an interactive cat on my resume and I'm pretty sure it literally got me the job. ( https://pkunk.org/resume/ ) A little fun goes a long way!

I like your site. It's simple and fun. I also like the way you handle company rebranding with strikethrough :P

Might I suggest that you submit it for listing on https://1mb.club? Looking at Pingdom's tools, it judges your site at 48K: https://tools.pingdom.com/#5f15f825e1000000

Either that, or give me permission to list it for you (:

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