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Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface

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Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

Philpax wrote: post #12

I'm going to represent the critical opinion and say: this is cute and I like the idea in theory, but if I encountered this in the wild, I would just leave the page. I explore most informational websites with a mouse or a touchscreen - I don't want to type to navigate your website! A middleground might be to make the commands clickable, so that clicking on "help" automatically inserts and runs it, and clicking on any…

Agree. While I acknowledge the work that must have gone into this, and the playful quality of the result, with respect this is a frustrating way to present information.

Personally I'd have gone for a 90s TUI-style hypertext presentation. But, like I said, nice work!

Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface

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Post by MelodyUwU »

few "commands" that id like to see: ls, cd, less (better reading), uname, echo. would be nice for sure! otherwise it seems some fonts are not really terminal-like. looks good and simple right now though.

also:

  abdisaDev@chillSpot:~$ whoami
  visitor@linux_aarch64-CET

Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface

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Post by xtiansimon »

maze-le wrote: post #25

Very nice, but if you want to use it professionally you should consider having an alternative "clear text" version for recruiters and the like. The technically minded will find it nice but most people won't know what to do or what any of this means. And you could consider adding `ls`, `cd` and `exit` just for fun -- it was the first thing I've tried.

I’ve trained bookkeepers to run Python scripts on Windows, and ls/dir, cd are foundational, including the syntax for a script command’s arguments.

For the clear text version, it could be a hypertext document run by an app! Haha

Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface

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Post by noduerme »

I love it. This is really original. It's beautiful and entirely unnecessary, but that's what makes it good. Of course there are old BBSs and things on the web where you can have a TTY experience, but I can't remember ever seeing a person's portfolio site designed by hand like this to mimic that feeling. It's impressive for being so clean and minimal while at the same time obviously difficult to accomplish in such a polished way. Top notch.

Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface

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Post by noduerme »

maze-le wrote: post #25

Very nice, but if you want to use it professionally you should consider having an alternative "clear text" version for recruiters and the like. The technically minded will find it nice but most people won't know what to do or what any of this means. And you could consider adding `ls`, `cd` and `exit` just for fun -- it was the first thing I've tried.

er, I assume that they made this site because they're far too good to work for anyone who doesn't want to take the time to find out how it works. In other words, recruiters need not apply.
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