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Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by intuitionist »

RandallBrown wrote: post #92
Tade0 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The spirit is there definitely. My take is that it's only a matter of time before emojis creep into every area where text is used. Let's hope they won't ever become a mainstream part of programming languages.

Swift lets you use any unicode characters, so emoji are perfectly valid variable names. I've seen some "cute" github projects that use them, but they're obviously not for real life use since emojis are tough to type.

Purescript does the same thing (some people like using Unicode symbols for “forall” and function arrows) and it’s also led to amusing github goofs: https://github.com/i-am-tom/purescript-prelewd

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by grimgrin »

core1024 wrote: post #127
lifthrasiir wrote: post #60

This page will wreck your browser history. The post explains the rationale at the end, but frankly speaking there should have been the warning for each checkbox.

If you're using Firefox you can Control+H then right click on the site and select the option labeled "Forget About This Site". Done.

Not tackling the same problem but in the spirit of removing things and Firefox, you can bring up a url in the address bar, press down arrow, press Delete, and it'll go away

It only deletes that very specific url though, like foo.com, however foo.com/bar will still exist

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by bork1 »

zuppy wrote: post #115
bork1 wrote: post #114

One downside is that it basically renders the back button useless. I ran the examples you provided (which were great fun!) and when I tried to get back to hackernews I realized each step in the animation had been added to my browser history

you can use replaceState for that and back will work fine

Oh nice; good to know that there's an easy way to get around that.

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by peteforde »

MatthewRayfield wrote: post #66
peteforde wrote: post #44

I love the creativity of the hack, especially when he sync'd the video position with the scrubber. Respect. I also love the guy's vaguely deranged, Adult Swim -inspired commentary. I went from hater to fan in about 30 seconds, once I realized that he must idolize Tim Heidecker. Again, respect. However, what I love the most is how the video was composited and edited. What tools do you use to pull that together without…

Heyyyy thanks glad you enjoyed it! I was surprised to wake up and see this on Hacker News today. Thought I'd comment on the video editing: It is all pretty low tech. I use Adobe Premiere to edit and mostly just animate transform, scale, and crop effects to achieve everything. Like for the zooms you pointed out I double up a layer of the screencap and then crop and scale. It's a bit painstaking at times. Another littl…

Thanks for the tips and tricks. If you ever made a video on how you make videos, I'd be first in line to watch that.

I haven't looked at Premiere since the bad old days before it traded places with Final Cut as the default choice for editing. These days, I spend most of my time on Ubuntu and use Kdenlive for my very minimal requirements.

The one thing you have that is much harder to teach is great comic timing. I suspect that it will serve you well in many aspects of your life. I don't know if you've been polishing your fast five, but if you ever have an opportunity to try your hand at standup, I'd encourage you to go for it.

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by sdan »

saagarjha wrote: post #34
sdan wrote: post #30

Company checks on Employee's search history So what's so interesting about matthewrayfield.com that you had to go there 59,000 times in the last hour?

I'm sure when they see the website for themselves they'd agree with you ;)

Irrelevant question, but did you go to Monta Vista a few years ago? I remember your name from there sometime ago.

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by saagarjha »

sdan wrote: post #156
saagarjha wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure when they see the website for themselves they'd agree with you ;)

Irrelevant question, but did you go to Monta Vista a few years ago? I remember your name from there sometime ago.

I did! I graduated two years ago.

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by chrfrasco »

veryworried wrote: post #143
blueline wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

..why? i see comments with ':-)' all the time. are the people here so pretentious that they're fundamentally opposed to using an ideogram? better hope there aren't any closeted road-signage-designers lurking on HN then

Emojis are too jocular for the tone we are trying to strike here. They lower the level of discourse down to something more like Reddit or Twitter.

Man, I wish I could use the eye-roll emoji here

Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Post by Ayesh »

z3t4 wrote: post #36

Am I the only one thinking about buying many domain names to do the animation on the actual TLD ?

Probably yes. In browser history updates, browsers will trigger a regular page navigation if the domain changes.

I suppose with keep-alive, all sub/top domains in the same TLS certificate, and immutable far-future caches, one could pull off an animation at ~5 fps.

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