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I completely agree with you. There are so many things that infuriate me about re... | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)"There are so many things that infuriate me about regular sites:
- Images not having defined heights, leading to content jumping up as I'm reading
- Ads loading and unloading, leading to the page jittering up and down erratically, making the content unreadable
- Auto-playing videos: some start playing audio, some have the audio muted but still pause any music I have playing
- Those ads that scroll up across the page (which wouldn't be a problem, but they scroll at a third of the speed that I drag them up at)
- The "Read Full Story" buttons that animate the content downwards, freezing everything for a few seconds while the dumb animation plays
- Web fonts taking an eternity to load, leaving me with no content for ten, fifteen, or more seconds
- Web fonts loading unexpectedly and causing all the text to reflow, destroying my scroll position
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Day 19. Just to make sure I wasn't getting stuck attempting to make fake instruments sound real, today's song is super ethereal and lacking most things resembling instruments and rhythm. I have no idea what I might use this for in the future, but it was an interesting exploration of making a soundscape. -
Day 19: Automatically fetching reposted content #100DaysOfIndieWeb
Yesterday, I updated my website to show the full contents of reposts. Today, I took that to the next step, and I now automatically fetch the contents of reposts when they are made. I also expanded the repost display to include showing the photo if I reposted a photo!continue reading... -
Ruby Magic, or why `params` is empty even when I don't set it
I learned a very subtle Ruby trick today.The Ruby parser will create local variables for every variable that might be set in your code before any of it is run.irb(main):001:0> if false; x = 1; endcontinue reading... -
Day 18 - Maple and Spruce
Day 18. I wasn't sure where to start today, but I remembered that it was my friend Barnaby's birthday! I first met Barnaby on the Internet, and later met him in person at an IndieWebCamp. In addition to being a prolific contributor to many IndieWeb projects, he also plays *and makes* Hurdy-Gurdys! What's a Hurdy Gurdy? It's a very cool instrument that is kind of like a key-fretted violin played with a circular bow. I went to his website http://waterpigs.co.uk to see what sorts of musical things he's been up to lately, and found a neat melody called "Maple and Spruce" written out. I decided to use this as the basis for today's song. Oh and I should mention that this arrangement is not actually trying to sound like a Hurdy-Gurdy, although I imagine it would sound great played on it too. So happy birthday Barnaby!continue reading... -
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Day 18: Showing Full Repost Content in p3k #100DaysOfIndieWeb
At the beginning of last year when I was working on rebuilding p3k, I made the decision to drop showing the full contents of my reposts in favor of launching the new site sooner. It's been bugging me for a long time, since it means that my reposts aren't really reposts at all, they're just a list of links.Today I took the first step in showing the full contents of my reposts. Since my posts are all based on mf2 property storage, I updated my templates to display the post like one of my posts if the "repost-of" property is an object rather than just a string.Now my reposts look like this!continue reading... -
Day 17. This is a piano solo I recorded in only a couple takes. After recording, I added some chorus, delay, EQ filters, and a phaser effect to make it sound like it was sort of out of tune and far away. I guess I was going for the "something is slightly off" vibe. I considered adding some other instruments but ended up sticking with a piano solo for this one.
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Tim Tepaße 🦣
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Jan 7
@aaronpk https://aaronparecki.com/articles doesn't seem to have an XML feed, am I correct? I'd love to subscribe to one.
@ttepasse I don't generate an XML feed (too much extra code) but you can paste any of my feeds into https://granary-demo.appspot.com/?x=94&y=43&input=html to convert them! -
If you have an Amazon Echo, you can hear a new song by me every day with your #FlashBriefing! Add my #100DaysOfMusic skill in the app!
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Week in Review #100DaysOfIndieWeb
aaronparecki.comDay 11: I dropped the web font in favor of a handful of system fonts for various platforms.Day 13: I added support for drawing curved maps lines to Atlas, which I use to generate the maps on my site. Now my travel plans show a nice line for each flight leg.Day 16: I improved the display of comments on my posts, including displaying some basic HTML formatting from comments, autolinking comment text, and showing images.continue reading...
