> To do this I said - a checkbox has two valid states. It’s checked or it’s unchecked
Ah, i see someone has been burned by true, false and null before!
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
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#12That was so fun to read! It's nice to see internet's creativity at best. Plus: one more data point proving that creativity flourishes when resources are limited
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#13author here :) this is my favorite story from running the site, and possibly the best story I've ever been a part of. I'm not a big crier but I have cried so many times thinking and trying to write about it over the past 2 months. And of course, the process of discovery (and going from panic to excitement) was pretty crazy too. One of my favorite things about this is that it validated one of the core beliefs I have w…
Fantastic telling of it in both text and video form. Great to celebrate these people doing the kinds of things we learned so much from! Thanks for sharing.
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#14This is an awesome post and sounds like it was an awesome experience.
I’d be interested to see an alternate-history version of this, in a universe where it was built with a serverless architecture. My hunch is that a lot of the late-night hacking sessions wouldn’t have been necessary, but when it went down (due to resource caps) it would’ve been down down, not just slow.
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#15> To do this I said - a checkbox has two valid states. It’s checked or it’s unchecked Ah, i see someone has been burned by true, false and null before!
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#16we are so back
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#17author here :) this is my favorite story from running the site, and possibly the best story I've ever been a part of. I'm not a big crier but I have cried so many times thinking and trying to write about it over the past 2 months. And of course, the process of discovery (and going from panic to excitement) was pretty crazy too. One of my favorite things about this is that it validated one of the core beliefs I have w…
Thanks for the great writeups, this one, the one about scaling, and your work in general. It's been very inspiring.
Also, you're absolutely right about largely good and creative people.
I built a OMCB clone because the concept possessed me; i threw it online, a day later, okay a couple of dicks, whatever. Holy shit someone put a huge Hokusai's The Great Wave in there! (My version uses a fixed width/height, a big scrollable canvas, so that was easy to spot)
Seeing that felt so good, so joyful :)
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#18If this really happened, on both sides - author, and haxor, well, ... there is still hope for this world. Amen.
As one of the people who found the original Discord server back when the site was live, I can attest that this is absolutely true.
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#19This is peak internet. Thanks so much for sharing. What a lovely read.
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#20author here :) this is my favorite story from running the site, and possibly the best story I've ever been a part of. I'm not a big crier but I have cried so many times thinking and trying to write about it over the past 2 months. And of course, the process of discovery (and going from panic to excitement) was pretty crazy too. One of my favorite things about this is that it validated one of the core beliefs I have w…
Perhaps you have said this elsewhere, but why shut the site down?