Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network • Hacker News Board

Props to this - and I think that I've just found some inspirational writing by Paul Graham on it. The username seems to be a pseudonym, probably because of his typical modesty, but the concepts and style are unmistakable. ;-)

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

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Post by john2x » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 9:21 AM UTC

IIAOPSW wrote: post #31

Oh boy oh boy I hope the site creator reads this. I've had an idea for years now to make a satirical reddit/hn. I call it 'skimmedit'. Please steal my ideas. 1. Instead of subreddits, content is sorted by font. The available fonts are Helvetica, Comic Sans, Times New Roman, Wing Dings, Arial Wide, Papyrus and braile. 2. When you submit a link, the title shows up as blue and underlined but is not actually a hyperlink.…

Number 3 reminds me of how online messages are shared on Fromsoft games like Dark Souls and Bloodborne. Players leave messages with "fill in the blanks" type form and a limited set of words to choose.

It works really well and there are some genuine gems scattered throughout the games.

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

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Post by yann2 » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 9:28 AM UTC

IIAOPSW wrote: post #31

Oh boy oh boy I hope the site creator reads this. I've had an idea for years now to make a satirical reddit/hn. I call it 'skimmedit'. Please steal my ideas. 1. Instead of subreddits, content is sorted by font. The available fonts are Helvetica, Comic Sans, Times New Roman, Wing Dings, Arial Wide, Papyrus and braile. 2. When you submit a link, the title shows up as blue and underlined but is not actually a hyperlink.…

:) great collection. Addendum to 5 - let the world know at the end of each day who the highest up and downvoters are.

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Post by shrubby » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 9:40 AM UTC

Charlieholtz wrote: post #6

Wow so cool to see this here! I’m the co-creator of this and happy to answer any and all questions. Shlinkedin is definitely a bizarre passion of mine so it’s awesome to see it resonate - turns out a lot of people find a lot LinkedIn ridiculous :) This has also been a good excuse to learn Elixir/ Liveview. I’ve made all the code open source if anyone wants to take a look! https://github.com/cbh123/shlinked

Thanks. This brightened up my world substantially today.

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Post by cconcepts » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 9:53 AM UTC

Charlieholtz wrote: post #6

Wow so cool to see this here! I’m the co-creator of this and happy to answer any and all questions. Shlinkedin is definitely a bizarre passion of mine so it’s awesome to see it resonate - turns out a lot of people find a lot LinkedIn ridiculous :) This has also been a good excuse to learn Elixir/ Liveview. I’ve made all the code open source if anyone wants to take a look! https://github.com/cbh123/shlinked

Hilarious: need a way to tag stuff I see on linkedin to automatically post it to shlinkedin. Something like #nottheonion

There is so much hilarious content not being appreciated over on the original.

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Post by dgb23 » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 12:04 PM UTC

Charlieholtz wrote: post #6

Wow so cool to see this here! I’m the co-creator of this and happy to answer any and all questions. Shlinkedin is definitely a bizarre passion of mine so it’s awesome to see it resonate - turns out a lot of people find a lot LinkedIn ridiculous :) This has also been a good excuse to learn Elixir/ Liveview. I’ve made all the code open source if anyone wants to take a look! https://github.com/cbh123/shlinked

How was working with tailwind in Elixir?

My understanding is that Liveview does SSR paired with a very light JS/AJAX framework to keep state on the client, similar to htmx for example.

Tailwind however generates tons of CSS classes that you might or might not use, so it parses your HTML and "purges" unused classes afterwards. It seems that this is far easier if working with a more mainstream framework.

Did you have any problems setting this up?