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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 snerbles »

buu700 wrote: post #99
dgimla20 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a cool looking site, but these terminal style sites (seen a few of them from web developers and software types) look terrible on phones and tablets (keyboard constantly present), which is well over 60% of web traffic now. You have to keep in mind your audience. If you presume everybody visiting this site is software-inclined, it's fine. I know a lot of less tech-literate users who would leave something like this…

I know a lot of less tech-literate users who would leave something like this straight away thinking they're being hacked or something daft. That reminds me of the time my friend and I put together a silly shell script called pentagonhack.sh that went through an 80s-movie-style nonsense hacking sequence while you mashed the keys. Most of the content was inside jokes, but there were a number of all caps references to a…

When I returned to college ~15 years ago, my main laptop was a ThinkPad T60 running some flavor of Debian. I spent a lot of time with a full-screen terminal open in some sort of green-on-black color scheme.

On several occasions some complete stranger would interrupt me - usually with a shoulder tap - and demand to know what I was doing hacking in the library/student union/etc. Never happened in the engineering buildings, though.

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

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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…

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

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Post by umbra07 »

masswerk wrote: post #66

This is a dangerous path! I once did the same and it grew to become https://masswerk.at/jsuix ;-) (Historical note: pixels were bigger, in 2003. Feel free to zoom in / increase the text size.)

oh this is amazing. i like the `man`-help implementation. `ps` too!

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

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Post by Apfel »

Daviey wrote: post #8

It's wonderful, great job. It looks like you used, https://github.com/bony2023/react-terminal which is an interesting project. The title for "Help" isn't a terminal font, it jumps out as misplaced. Also, suggestion is to add some hidden easter egg commands. I was surprised `whoami` worked, but then I saw it in `help` and was sad. But anyway: abdisaDev@chillSpot:~$ whoami visitor@linux_x86_64-Europe_London abdisaDev@c…

There's at least one easter egg! use developer --color (sorry, I have a habit of digging through source)

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

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Post by abdisaDev »

Apfel wrote: post #105
Daviey wrote: post #8

It's wonderful, great job. It looks like you used, https://github.com/bony2023/react-terminal which is an interesting project. The title for "Help" isn't a terminal font, it jumps out as misplaced. Also, suggestion is to add some hidden easter egg commands. I was surprised `whoami` worked, but then I saw it in `help` and was sad. But anyway: abdisaDev@chillSpot:~$ whoami visitor@linux_x86_64-Europe_London abdisaDev@c…

There's at least one easter egg! use developer --color (sorry, I have a habit of digging through source)

You found it! Shhh… let’s keep it our little secret ;)
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