[HN Gopher] For four years, I photographed, indexed and classifi...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire
       house
        
       Author : Alifatisk
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2024-12-29 13:43 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.katalog-barbaraiweins.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.katalog-barbaraiweins.com)
        
       | ChoGGi wrote:
       | Is the landing page full of hundreds? Of full size images shrunk
       | into little thumbnails?
        
         | Liftyee wrote:
         | Judging by how they progressively loaded top to bottom on my
         | usually fast (350 Mbps) internet, yes. Each tiny image was
         | barely 128*128 on my phone screen but they still loaded very
         | slowly.
        
       | mtlynch wrote:
       | Oof, just loading this page caused my browser to download 170 MB
       | of content. I hope she has a good CDN.
        
         | gazchop wrote:
         | Looks like it's all on yourhosting.nl. "Unlimited" traffic. Of
         | course until we hug it to death...
        
       | ninjin-carh wrote:
       | https://archive.is/S9a64
        
         | urronglol wrote:
         | The first image that loaded for me was his dildo
        
           | bboynton97 wrote:
           | her
        
             | LightBug1 wrote:
             | TBC
        
       | a1o wrote:
       | Very slow to load. Also, I find these about written in third
       | person very weird.
        
       | tra3 wrote:
       | I've thought of doing something similar. Add a barcode to
       | everything, designate a "home" and then create a catalogue. I
       | even found an app that supports this.
       | 
       | No more "where does this go" or "where do I find X"..
        
         | HPsquared wrote:
         | Maybe a phone camera could be trained to recognize the objects
         | and locations.
        
       | smokel wrote:
       | I once made a large pencil drawing of my living room using only
       | words.
       | 
       | Each word depicted a "thing" at the position I found it. It
       | taught me a lot about what things are. A chair is obviously a
       | separate entity and easy to list, but what about the floor and
       | the separate floorboards? I listed the wall, but I didn't list
       | the paint on the wall.
       | 
       | The bookcase took a lot of effort, because I found that each book
       | in it was a thing by itself and should get listed separately.
       | However, when I was nearly finished, I found a bag in a cabinet,
       | holding ~200 pins. I just counted them and noted down "207 pins";
       | I didn't feel that each pin was unique enough to warrant separate
       | entries.
       | 
       | I now try to stop believing in things. It's mostly just molecules
       | that happen to be in a certain configuration for some time.
        
         | aspenmayer wrote:
         | > I now try to stop believing in things. It's mostly just
         | molecules that happen to be in a certain configuration for some
         | time.
         | 
         | This is the way. The real and/or important things have a
         | tendency to impinge upon your perceptions in such a way as to
         | render your belief in them or lack thereof moot and/or
         | meaningless.
        
         | lukan wrote:
         | Deep philosophical insights gained through pedantic accounting
         | - I genuinly love it.
        
       | kmoser wrote:
       | I was expecting to see detailed photos of the house itself, but
       | this is even cooler!
        
       | Pikamander2 wrote:
       | Some constructive feedback to the site owner: Instead of having
       | the webpage spend several minutes slowly loading thousands of
       | barely-compressed 500x500 JPG images, please consider this
       | advice:
       | 
       | 1. Convert the images to WEBP or AVIF or at least run them
       | through something like TinyPNG to compress them better.
       | 
       | 2. Save two versions of each images; a 75x75 version that gets
       | used for the 75px thumbnails shown on the page, and a 500x500
       | version that appears in the lightbox after a thumbnail is
       | clicked.
       | 
       | 3. Only load a few dozen thumbnails at first and then load more
       | after the user scrolls down or clicks a "show more" type button.
        
         | codingdave wrote:
         | I'm not sure optimization is her goal. If you just load the
         | page and let it sit without scrolling down, it slowly counts
         | the number of photos she has taken. That is not the design
         | choice of someone seeking speed. So she might be deliberately
         | allowing it to be slow. That would track with her other works,
         | one of which specifically says she finds beauty in
         | imperfection.
        
       | xvfLJfx9 wrote:
       | Cool. But... why?
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2025-01-01 23:00 UTC)