Show HN: Popped At, my many, many weekends realtime photo project
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Re: Show HN: Popped At, my many, many weekends realtime photo project
#2The gray body text is hard to read on a black background.
Re: Show HN: Popped At, my many, many weekends realtime photo project
#3The gray body text is hard to read on a black background.
If that's the only thing you can find to criticize, OP's done a good job.
I really like it. I couldn't seem to get the pausing/unpausing to work with my trackpad, though.
Re: Show HN: Popped At, my many, many weekends realtime photo project
#4Maybe it's just the time of day (9AM EST), but the feed seems to be dominated by Asian (Japanese and Korean, in particular) users. Is there a cycle to this sort of thing or is it only picking up photos from that part of the world?
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#5Interesting project. Would be keen to hear about technical details.
How real-time is the data? I noticed a lot of repeating images so I'm assuming the data is collected and batch processed? Or are the images being fetched directly using the twitpic API?
Any reason for using canvas element instead of images or CSS backgrounds? My gut would suggest that loading an image and then painting to the canvas would incur a greater overhead than simply setting an img src attribute.
The page is generating a ton of traffic. A sustained 80-90kb/s for me. Within a few minutes the count was up to 50mb+ of image data!! Are the images all hotlinked from twitpic or are you doing your own storage and using a CDN?
Would be nice to be able to slow down the stream a bit.
Re: Show HN: Popped At, my many, many weekends realtime photo project
#6The gray body text is hard to read on a black background.
If that's the only thing you can find to criticize, OP's done a good job. I really like it. I couldn't seem to get the pausing/unpausing to work with my trackpad, though.
I actually thought it'd be helpful to OP to point out that the text is hard to read. It's called constructive criticism - nothing wrong with that.
Re: Show HN: Popped At, my many, many weekends realtime photo project
#7Here's a few more:
http://www.pingwire.com/ (now defunct, but it was pretty good)
http://picfog.com/ (live stream seems down)
http://gimmeshiny.com/ (other sources than twitter)
http://twitcaps.com/ (defunct)
These usually don't live long, I'm not sure why. Pingwire was by far my favorite, mesmerizing.
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#8Lots of toons & manga & game screenshots, so maybe wouldn't call it a "photo project"..
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#9All i see is Korean/Japanese posts. What's that about?
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#10Reminds me of the "WebCollage" XScreensaver - Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1999. :-)
http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/
This creates collages out of random images from
the World Wide Web. It finds the images by feeding
random words into various search engines, and pulling
images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned.
WARNING: THE INTERNET SOMETIMES CONTAINS PORNOGRAPHY.