I wanted to take my gf out to dinner to a notoriously overbooked restaurant. I wrote a script that monitored their web site for be reservation slots, and voila within 5 minutes of them making them available I was able to book one for our first year anniversary :-)
Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?
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#142It’s like Randall from xkcd made a website while being in love. Awesome!
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#143There was a girl that I liked. I'd been asking her out for a few times, and in unconventional, or as some of my friends say, creepy ways. Lol. I bought a domain name, willyougooutwith.me and put it behind a tinyurl link. On her birthday I gave a gift to her with a piece of paper of that tinyurl. If she visits that url, there will be a 3D envelope that she can click. If she clicks that 3D envelope, a 3 page letter wil…
FOB?
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#144My gf at the time and I were looking to move to NYC for school. Apartment hunting isn't super fun - especially in a place neither of us were super familiar with that also happened to be NYC. AND we were going to attend separate campuses.
So naturally I wrote a script that scraped Craigslist for listings (1) in our budget, (2) calculated our individual commute times, (3) filtered the results so that commutes were under an hour or something and (4) posted the listings to a Slack channel with all the info I could scrape. It was working perfectly until she dumped me several days later.
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#145> Things were a little crazy and happened over 3 different continents in a very short time. These are generally indications of an underlying mental issue. Be on the lookout for it: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzv7xx/heres-why-narcissi...
That's an incredible leap given those details.
Occams razor would suggest young love.
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#146There was a girl I liked years ago, maybe 15 years ago, and I bought her a domain name that was her name, with hosting for a website and her own email name@name.com
She had no idea what this meant and did not care about it at all, and nothing romantic ensued.
The domain expired and is held by one of those spam exchanges now.
Love finds a way, even if that way is to an ad exchange.
Re: Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?
#147I used a pinch of code to propose to my wife.
First, I had friends and family of my (then) girlfriend send me videos describing what makes her awesome.
Next, I generated a dozen or so 6 character alphanumeric codes, and had Zazzle print them out for me.
Third, I built a web site that made it foolproof to type in codes and then play the videos. It had a huge textbox, and it turned lowercase into uppercase, and only accepted valid characters. It played the videos full screen. A few seconds before video ends, it has an overly with a hint for a scavenger hunt.
On the morning of the proposal,I made her breakfast in bed, gave her a gift and an envelope with the (very short) URL and the first code. After she watched the video and saw the hint, we got ready and I drove her to the location. Then gave her another envelope!
And so it went, until we arrived at our favorite waterfall hike, and at the foot of a waterfall, I handed her my camera and while she was distracted, got the ring out and got on one knee.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
One more that’s fun, though maybe doesn’t really count as “programming.” I got married a few years back. We built a wedding website for people to get details on our wedding and to RSVP. It was pretty standard (think we just used Squarespace) except we included tracking pixels for the largest ad networks (Google, Facebook, etc) throughout the site. We then bid on impressions from anyone whose browser had triggered the…
So... a friend just sent me this as I'm known as "the guy who pranked his roommate with Facebook ads [1]." I'm also getting married on 11/11. This is absolutely brilliant. My partner and I [2] thank you for this. PM me, we'd love to invite you and your partner to our (digital) wedding. [1] http://ghostinfluence.com/prank [2] http://partnersinpresence.com
I would love to see the CEO of CloudFlare come to your wedding. Your prank article was a nice read and I had a good laugh.
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#149When I was in High school I was crushing on a girl who was really into video games. Old fashioned Zelda video games to be exact. Myself, knowing absolutely zero about game programming took it upon myself to create a 2d game for her in the 3 weeks before Valentine's day. So I crammed all the c# game tutorials I could possibly find until I made a top down game where I character collected hearts that spawned randomly on the screen. It turned out pretty crappy to be honest. It flickered because I didn't have rendering correct and the character teleported because I didn't fully understand smoothing motion using the game time delta. But it got me started on a path which lead me to today. She really liked the game, but in the end we weren't meant to be.
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#150I created an extremely simple wedding website for our day https://github.com/intenscia/Wedding
Thank you for opensourcing this. I took some inspiration when I built the website for my own wedding