[HN Gopher] Stripe Black Friday Dashboard (Physical Machine)
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       Stripe Black Friday Dashboard (Physical Machine)
        
       Author : oli5679
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2024-12-01 12:45 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (bfcm.stripe.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (bfcm.stripe.com)
        
       | coreyh14444 wrote:
       | As a user of the Toshiba T3000 laptop and various other machines
       | of the 1980s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T3100) which
       | had a similar display, this is really hitting the nostalgia
       | button HARD. Kudos.
        
         | DonnyV wrote:
         | I like the slight fuzzy look it has. Captured that orange
         | monitor feel really well.
        
           | bbrks wrote:
           | You might like cool-retro-term[1] - it's fun to play around
           | with for a bit :)
           | 
           | [1] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
        
       | xnorswap wrote:
       | I know this isn't really about Snake, but this implementation of
       | snake is frustrating to play because:
       | 
       | 1. It doesn't buffer inputs. If you are travelling Left and
       | quickly tap Up then Left, it'll treat it as a no-op instead of
       | moving you up a row.
       | 
       | 2. You can suicide by quickly tapping Up + Right while travelling
       | Left. It'll fail to buffer the input, so you immediately turn 180
       | degrees back on yourself and die. If you're travelling Left, then
       | you can't press just Right, but an intermezzo tap of the Up key
       | bypasses the input validation that prevents a 180.
        
         | steve_adams_86 wrote:
         | Agreed, I had to quit because of weird things like this. A
         | little sad because the aesthetic drew me in right away and it
         | was fun to start. Still, nice work, fun little break, hopefully
         | they fix those issues and make it a little more fun
        
       | bhouston wrote:
       | Sort of lame compared to Shopify's Black Friday dashboard. Stripe
       | sort of feels like they lost some magic.
        
         | c0wb0yc0d3r wrote:
         | Definitely different levels!
         | 
         | https://bfcm.shopify.com/
         | 
         | Does anyone know what frameworks Shopify used to put that
         | together? Viewing the source I see refs to react, but I find it
         | hard to believe that it is only react.
        
           | chedabob wrote:
           | There's at least one error log that references Three.js.
        
           | bhouston wrote:
           | React three fiber. A way to use Three but with React. It is
           | quite neat and powerful.
        
           | steve_adams_86 wrote:
           | Whoa. This feels like something someone would have made in
           | Flash arbitrarily in their spare time some 20 years ago, in a
           | really good way. Tons of loving details.
        
           | willsmith72 wrote:
           | It hurts seeing all that Australian traffic cross the
           | Pacific. As an Aussie the internet feels so much better in
           | north America
        
           | mvdtnz wrote:
           | They blogged about how they wrote the 2023 version which
           | seems to have a lot in common.
           | 
           | https://shopify.engineering/how-we-built-shopifys-
           | bfcm-2023-...
        
         | fragmede wrote:
         | Lame) This is a physical machine, presumably in their office!
         | Shopify's is cool and all, and they projected it onto the Vegas
         | Sphere at one point, which was also all sorts of cool. Not sure
         | why it's a contest, or a sign of losing some sort of magic.
         | (they're both corporations, not a kids variety act)
        
         | carbine wrote:
         | did you see this
         | https://x.com/devinjacoviello/status/1862495554628198738
        
       | 1970-01-01 wrote:
       | Frozen at 43%
       | 
       | Useless.
        
         | linuxguy2 wrote:
         | 49% here. Maybe I'm missing the point? Something other than
         | playing snake I suppose.
        
           | bbrks wrote:
           | I assume it had live data at the time of Black Friday, and
           | the loading bar is showing progress towards them publishing a
           | replay: "FINAL DATA COMING TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3"
        
           | garyfirestorm wrote:
           | 51% here stuck
        
         | mcpherrinm wrote:
         | There was a live feed of the physical device they built.
         | 
         | Some photos from their twitter:
         | 
         | https://x.com/stripe/status/1862481577307251197
         | 
         | https://x.com/stripe/status/1863012757630505394/photo/1
         | 
         | And a screenshot:
         | 
         | https://imgur.com/0IrSjtC
        
       | m3kw9 wrote:
       | That font glow looks completely wrong, it looks like a lazy blur
       | applied on top
        
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