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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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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…

I can’t even use it on mobile apparently so can’t be bothered trying to use the site. 10/10 experience /s

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

#118

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!

Some more info is here: https://masswerk.at/jsuix/jsuix-documentation.txt

All the man pages (same as `man -p`): https://masswerk.at/jsuix/man.txt

(I think, the simple vi implementation acquired a scrolling bug, if the buffer starts with less than an entire screen.)

Also, try `invaders` (it does games, too). ;-)

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I would love to hire this person (in theory), but every job I post gets hundreds of inbound applicants, and while hiring is one of the most important aspects of my job, it is second to delivering software with value. I really don’t have time to seek out every person out there who may have a resume, much less a quirky resume, so I send recruiters who work for me to find good candidates for top of funnel. I don’t think…

Do you hire for full-remote? I have mobility issues.
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