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Take more screenshots (2022)

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Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by loa_in_ »

albertzeyer wrote: post #121

I had a script once which generated a screenshot every minute or so. The idea was that I would then use some other machine learning supported scripts to extract some statistics. One motivation was that I needed to collect working time statistics, and I wanted to count the minutes that I had Eclipse open. I even wrote a DB to store PNG files more efficiently. It deduplicates blocks, and thus achieves much higher compr…

I made something similar with "brotab", grabbing full text content of all open tabs of the browser (and other metadata) every so often and archiving it, so I can search it like a kind of extended history and correlate URLs by context.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by loa_in_ »

Gigachad wrote: post #59
hgsgm wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are some interesting minor notable things you've documented?

I was in a discussion about modern street design that prioritises pedestrian safety and I brought up a trend I had noticed of new laneways putting the road and sidewalk completely level with no clear boundary between cars and people walking. I had taken a few photos of these streets, not because I had anticipated this discussion but because I just take a photo of all new construction and google photos makes it very e…

Name checks out

I'm sorry, moderator team, I find this to be the best way to express my appreciation and admiration for parent's approach to the topic.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by loa_in_ »

ty_2k wrote: post #149
magicbuzz wrote: post #10

Absolutely. When I do front-end work, I screenshot every visual change in the PR. Boss wants a look at the current work -> screenshot Users want to see a difference -> screenshot. But the most valuable it that it builds up a visual history of changes in my Screenshots dir.

This is my favorite use case as well. There's nothing better than starting a pull request review on someone else's front-end work and seeing the changes they've made before looking at the code.

How do you do this for UI elements that don't fit on screen?

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by pabs3 »

darkwater wrote: post #107
pabs3 wrote: post #79

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Geocities was reasonably well archived, do you remember the URL? https://archive.org/web/geocities.php

I'm in a similar situation, I even remember more or less how it was visually but for the life of me I cannot remember the URL or what nickname I could have used, I cannot find it by my 16yo me nickname I remember :( Edit: reading the page, it's a scrape from 2009. My page was from 1997-1998 and basically used only by me and my circle of friends, chances are it has been lost forever.

archive.org geocities scrapes go back to 1996, so it is plausible it could have survived:

https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=geocities.com&mat...

If you ever remember any of the details, the CDX API can probably help.

https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/blob/master/wayba...

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by pabs3 »

myth2018 wrote: post #131
johnnyApplePRNG wrote: post #73

I made my first website on geocities and it kills me that I cannot for the life of me find a record of it any longer. It was a website that "sold" replica/counterfeit watches. I was enthralled with them as a child for some reason. I knew they were popular items on the fledgling internet so I created a webpage for them on geocities and setup an email address to contact if you would like to purchase one. I had lots of…

I'm in a similar situation too. I had a website in 2000 hosted at cjb.net.

Try the archive.org CDX API, you might be able to find it.

https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/blob/master/wayba...

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by nextaccountic »

karmelapple wrote: post #65
nextaccountic wrote: post #38

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> I think I lack perspective on this and am not quite understanding what you mean. Where is the interruption coming from? Why do you need to take screenshots? I have this too but it's in the form of saving URLs of interesting things. I just fear stumbling upon something nice, not saving it and then not being able to find it again (which happens regularly btw; Google search and reddit search are pretty bad at finding…

Safari (and I think other browsers) has some great history search features. You maybe could explore those. https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/search-your-web-brows...

I don't use macs.. Firefox history is pretty much useless but there are some extensions like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-bette... .. but none really satisfying

Generally the best extension to save things is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by bonestamp2 »

cloudmike wrote: post #34

When I started making a game [0] last year, first thing I did was write a little Unity script that takes a screenshot of the opening scene, counts current lines of code using CLOC [1] (for fun, not as a true measure of anything), and occasionally renders it all out to an image file. With that I'm able to create some pretty fun time lapses of progress. I've been doing this at an arbitrary milestone, whenever my Luau […

The time lapse on your twitter is great... really fun to see those simple shapes and environment get more detailed, better lighting, shading, etc. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by tomatohs »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #36

Just record your entire session with OBS, set at 3fps. I can't count the number of times I've found it helpful to be able to check what I was doing X time units ago.

We're building a startup based on this idea, though we find that the #1 use cases is catching unexpected bugs. Is that what you find as well, when recording with OBS? Check out http://replayable.io.
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