[HN Gopher] Hi, I'm David
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Hi, I'm David
Author : kristiandupont
Score : 67 points
Date : 2021-10-06 18:31 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (davidtidman.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (davidtidman.com)
| yobert wrote:
| I put an interactive cat on my resume and I'm pretty sure it
| literally got me the job. (https://pkunk.org/resume/) A little
| fun goes a long way!
| bitwize wrote:
| Reminds me of Neko, the Mac/Windows desktop toy from the early
| 90s.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
| atatatat wrote:
| There is an Android Easter Egg game featuring this for those
| that don't know.
| jp_sc wrote:
| Reminds me to the old MSDOS "Alley Cat" game:
| https://archive.org/details/msdos_Alley_Cat_1984
| TheRealNGenius wrote:
| Does it move? I tried clicking on it and nothing seemed to
| happen.
| yobert wrote:
| Use the up/down/left/right arrow keys. It's not very fancy.
| (Mobile not supported either.)
| spicybright wrote:
| Aww, firefox makes the page scroll with arrow keys :( I'm
| not sure if I would override that though, maybe have
| alternate controls like "wasd" or something similar.
|
| P.S. I looked at the code for the cat and I really like it.
| Nice and simple.
| yobert wrote:
| Thank you! I made a library out of it
| (http://yobert.github.io/catify/) if you want to add it
| to something of yours!
| frabjoused wrote:
| Bravo! You get a star.
| spicybright wrote:
| That's so cute!!!!! I think I'll add it to my personal
| site, ty :D
| BuildTheRobots wrote:
| esheep inspired at all?
|
| I was amused when it dropped from the top and I played
| around resizing the window to make it fall. Casually
| dropping "use arrow keys to move cat!" under hobby
| programming was a lovely way of revealing that and
| rewarding the reader.
| yobert wrote:
| Thanks! I've never heard of esheep, but have been
| inspired by some desktop hacks over the years. (Remember
| that roach program for windows?) The cat animation was
| lifted from an old DOS game called Alleycat that I loved.
| chabons wrote:
| Reminds me of Felix the desktop cat from the Win 2000 era,
| which would walk around on your windows.
| Zababa wrote:
| It's really nice, thank you for sharing it!
| justusthane wrote:
| That's fun! Took me a second to realize it walks on top of the
| text.
| sshine wrote:
| Very nice balloon animation.
|
| Rarely do I visit a personal homepage that heats up my laptop.
| darepublic wrote:
| I dunno, try opening a couple of parallax / animation heavy
| websites and just stay on them scrolling up and down. I have
| had the fans revving up from that plenty of times.
| wizzwizz4 wrote:
| They're usually business websites, I find.
| divbzero wrote:
| The interactive rendering looks cool and fits his area of
| expertise. The underlying library appears to be PixiJS [1].
|
| [1]: https://pixijs.com/
| thedudeabides5 wrote:
| This is super cool, but am I the only one where chrome cuts off
| the very top of the wesbiste? Can't see the first line under my
| bookmarks...
| dym_sh wrote:
| yep, position:absolute will do it
|
| try to press [Ctrl]+[-] or [Ctrl]+[WheelDown] couple of times
| ColinWright wrote:
| If I use Ctrl+ to try to make the text large enough to read,
| parts of the content go off the page, and I can't see any way to
| get them back.
|
| Beautiful work, but effectively unusable for me.
| deugo wrote:
| Flash did it better. And on Internet Explorer 6.
| wly_cdgr wrote:
| Dang, you can do some pretty slick stuff with Three.js if you're
| good like this guy
| TranquilMarmot wrote:
| It's a fun idea. I'm working on something similar for my personal
| site (a little interactive 3D sandbox with threejs and bullet
| physics).
|
| People saying that it's not small or that it doesn't load fast
| enough are kind of missing the point... it's supposed to be a
| showcase of some skills this person has, not a tiny fast site.
| sabhiram wrote:
| But when someone clicks on a link from a mobile browser and
| nothing happens - it leaves the viewer with the impression that
| things are broken when in reality the exposed use case was just
| not considered (or not deemed important). This also tells a
| great deal about the author in my opinion.
| michaelterryio wrote:
| True, that life is short and they are decent at
| cost/benefits.
| pid-1 wrote:
| Took a while to load and the font could be a bit larger, but cool
| stuff. Love Bristol btw!
| acomjean wrote:
| O dear I popped the ballon.
|
| But like lazarus, it rises again (with a different message.)
|
| The third one seems indestructible...
|
| very nice.
| Phileosopher wrote:
| I don't know how, but that was more like the digital version of
| bubble wrap to me than the clickable bubble wrap I've
| encountered.
| firebaze wrote:
| Not so nice. If it was in the kilobyte range, or accessible, or
| fast, but neither it is.
| FractalHQ wrote:
| I wish Apple phones wouldn't constantly crash when loading WebGL
| graphics libraries. I'm working in BabylonJS right now, and not
| only will the page crash on iOS Safari, but there's no way to
| debug it. It (frustratingly) runs fine inside of the iPhone
| Simulator on MacOS, which is the only way I've been able to
| access devtools or crash logs.
|
| And I've successfully rendered BabylonJS on iOS in the past, so I
| know it's not just me.
|
| I'm working on another website at the moment using pixi.js, and
| I'm dreading the battle I'll be facing with Safari.
|
| Does anyone here have advice on how to better deal with WebGL +
| iOS debugging? OP and I seem to be faced with the same
| problems...
| dimal wrote:
| Is it a problem with BabylonJS? ThreeJS stuff always works fine
| for me.
| mtm7 wrote:
| If you have an iPhone, you can physically connect it to your
| computer and inspect its elements through Safari's DevTools.
| It's a little unintuitive, but I wrote a walkthrough on how to
| set it up here (see the second section) [0].
|
| I don't know why they make this so hard, ha!
|
| [0]: https://mtm.dev/iphone-localhost-mac
| mshockwave wrote:
| I thought it's a troll website because it took forever to load,
| not really cool IMO.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I saw a loading bar. Then a 3D balloon for 1 second. Then a black
| screen and broken webpage.
|
| iOS Safari latest version on iPhone SE.
| prionassembly wrote:
| Hi, David.
| jaimehrubiks wrote:
| It worked nicely for me, very cool.
| knorker wrote:
| Hi David. Your website is a blank black page.
| darepublic wrote:
| was like that for me too, I believe app[hash].js is the
| culprit, a 5mb download. It's a very pretty site, and I wish I
| could do this shader / unity / 3d stuff
| gus_massa wrote:
| What browser are you using? In my machine it's fine in Chrome,
| Firefox and Edge.
| mattnewton wrote:
| It's broken on all mobile browsers I think
| tclancy wrote:
| Works just fine on an iPhone X. The point of tech demos
| isn't to let the person know if it works on a Motorola
| Razr. You're not always the intended audience.
| teddyh wrote:
| The black page shows in the latest Firefox available in
| Debian stable, which is 78.14.0esr.
| antod wrote:
| Works in Firefox 92 on Ubuntu 21.04 for me. Took a while to
| load though.
| knorker wrote:
| Android chrome, at the moment.
| brundolf wrote:
| Broken on mobile Safari :( I see the balloon for a second and
| then the screen goes black
| tjoff wrote:
| Same on Firefox and chrome on Android for me (though Firefox
| flickers the last frame rather than black screen)
| Darmody wrote:
| It works on Firefox on Android if you switch to the desktop
| site.
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| Working for me on iOS 12 (which I didn't expect), did it break
| in an update?
| cfgghsj wrote:
| Wow that took a long time to load.
| Pensacola wrote:
| Very cool animation!
| motoxpro wrote:
| Man, I am glad they built this instead of them saying "Ah, load
| times are slow, scrap that idea." like it seems like a lot of
| people in this thread would do. Very very cool.
| Phileosopher wrote:
| I may be wrong, but I've realized there are at least 3 classes
| of hacker:
|
| 1. The back-end PenTester who builds and destroys with nothing
| but terminals.
|
| 2. The engineer who transforms mundane objects into brilliant
| fixes, or fixes what everyone doesn't realize is broken.
|
| 3. The on-the-spectrum genius savant who makes mind-bending
| experiences that redefine how we see reality.
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