I discovered this page like back in 2015 and I am grateful to find it on hackernews again, I forgot even its name in the meantime.
Cache Monet
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#22How can I self-host this?
Just for the legacy of this, I need to make sure this never vanishes
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a (not so visible) info button top right. It says: cachemonet is an exploration into the serendipitous collisions that occur between two randomly generated arrays. the arrays contain a mix of custom and found .gifs sourced from tumblr and are set to music. the output is autonomous, generative, art made possible through curation & code. You can even turn on sound...
and it sounds like "cash money"
That probably depends on what is being displayed... at some point I had sounds of USB connect/disconnect (possibly from the Windows 7 era).
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#24I thought I was safe on here.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
and it sounds like "cash money"
That probably depends on what is being displayed... at some point I had sounds of USB connect/disconnect (possibly from the Windows 7 era).
I think GP is referring to the name of the site, which sounds like "cash money" if you pronounce it with a thick American accent.
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#26strong overtones of Blank Banshee going on here.
good times
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#27I discovered this page like back in 2015 and I am grateful to find it on hackernews again, I forgot even its name in the meantime.
Finding out that this is over 10 years old has made me profoundly sad. Despite the age of LLMs arguably unlocking massive amounts of productivity and agency for developers and non-developers alike, it feels as though we are living in a dark age of creativity on the web, maybe even a dark age for computer culture in general.
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#28The track is Jib Kidder Windowdipper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAYU4rlwmA
Thanks. Been grooving on this for a solid 30 mins
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#29I discovered this page like back in 2015 and I am grateful to find it on hackernews again, I forgot even its name in the meantime.
Finding out that this is over 10 years old has made me profoundly sad. Despite the age of LLMs arguably unlocking massive amounts of productivity and agency for developers and non-developers alike, it feels as though we are living in a dark age of creativity on the web, maybe even a dark age for computer culture in general.
New interesting artsy web projects are being posted on hn all the time. neal.fun is an obvious example but there are plenty of others as well.
https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/
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#30Now I know what to do with my extra monitor that I used to use for a home dashboard.