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Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme
As a fun evening project, I made a live-updating version of the
'What a week, huh?' meme (based on a panel from The Adventures of
Tintin comics [1]). There's a page for every timeframe: - 'What a
day': https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/day - 'What a week':
https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/week - 'What a month':
https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/month - 'What a year':
https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/year Current time is determined by a
Cloudflare Worker using the request IP (not logged or stored). No
JavaScript is sent to the browser. [1]
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh
Author : dlazaro
Score : 727 points
Date : 2025-02-18 05:53 UTC (17 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (tintin.dlazaro.ca)
(TXT) w3m dump (tintin.dlazaro.ca)
| rcarmo wrote:
| This is the meme we needed.
| derektank wrote:
| The panel takes on an almost ominous tone when you're nearing the
| end of your day and Tintin is right there to tell you it's nearly
| midnight
| DC-3 wrote:
| What a life, huh?
|
| Captain, you're 84!
| kasperni wrote:
| Love it
| Secretmapper wrote:
| I thought it would be a hotlinkable image that updates.
| jraph wrote:
| It's close, the website could send the bare SVG instead of an
| SVG embedded in a HTML page :-)
| Linkd wrote:
| Yeah.. it would be straight forward to make this into an image
| and make it so much more usable
| cprecioso wrote:
| As a tip, you can use the `<meta http-equiv="Refresh">` tag [1]
| to make the browser automatically refresh after N seconds and
| keep the tab always up to date.
|
| [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
| US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/me...
| SilverSlash wrote:
| TIL
| 9dev wrote:
| Does that mean I can also send the ,,Refresh" http header to do
| that?
| greyface- wrote:
| Yes. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
| US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...
|
| In a similar vein, you can also use `Link: foo.css;
| rel=stylesheet` instead of `<link href="foo.css"
| rel="stylesheet" />` to specify stylesheets.
| https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
| US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Li...
| notpushkin wrote:
| Only works in Firefox, sadly. But you can do some really
| weird stuff with it, like
| https://www.5snb.club/pages/contentlesshtml/
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42234837)
| panki27 wrote:
| W3C has deprecated this for a long time now:
| https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#meta-element
| code_biologist wrote:
| Soo... browsers will likely support it until the end of the
| internet?
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| Yup, unless HTML6 is backwards-incompatible, which is
| highly unlikely.
| cprecioso wrote:
| Yeah, it's not great UX for web apps, but for a toy project
| like this it's good enough if you don't want any JS. It still
| works even if deprecated, and if it stops working, it doesn't
| take anything away.
| iofusion wrote:
| :)
| cryptozeus wrote:
| love it...fun!
| cryptozeus wrote:
| add your home page link somewhere
| HelloUsername wrote:
| Can't "What a ", ", huh?" and "Captain, it's " be hard-coded /
| image? Also, nearing the end of the day/week/month/year, the meme
| doesn't really makes sense anymore..
| jraph wrote:
| > Can't "What a ", ", huh?" and "Captain, it's " be hard-coded
| / image?
|
| That would be more work with the risk of things being misplaced
| because you'd need to figure out alignment. The font will also
| not be rendered the same way, adding some small imperfections.
| The SVG text is also more accessible.
|
| I believe sending the text as an SVG text is a vastly superior
| solution in every way :-)
| FearNotDaniel wrote:
| > Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the
| request IP
|
| I was scratching my head for a while wondering why you need an IP
| address to determine the current time... I'm inferring this means
| geo-locating the IP to determine the client's time zone and then
| using that to convert server time to the user's local time,
| right?
|
| Makes me think, it would be nice if there was a standard request
| header to specify preferred TZ for 'local time', just like
| Accept-Language (which sadly quite a few websites ignore and show
| me German-language content anyway just because my location is in
| a German-speaking country).
|
| Still, great work OP :-) now can anyone tell me why Tintin is
| trending at the moment? Did I miss something? All my feeds seem
| to be suddenly full of Tintin content right now.
| RicoElectrico wrote:
| > Makes me think, it would be nice if there was a standard
| request header to specify preferred TZ for 'local time',
|
| That's a another data point for fingerprinting, sadly. Not that
| Chrome would care, but Firefox and Safari teams do, I guess.
| lgas wrote:
| It could be opt-out/opt-in and then all six users that care
| about privacy could do as they wished.
| timlyo wrote:
| Sadly that almost makes things worse, if it's off then it's
| a data point that helps to id privacy conscious people.
| oneeyedpigeon wrote:
| Just use a default (GMT) for people who don't want to
| disclose it.
| snailmailman wrote:
| I believe this is already a thing? In JS at least
|
| Firefox's "resist fingerprinting" does a lot of things to
| stop fingerprinting. One of those things is that it fakes my
| time zone as being UTC. 99% of of the time I never notice
| this being an issue. But occasionally I'll try to pull up the
| wordle late in the day and get tomorrows puzzle.
| asddubs wrote:
| well, for almost everyone this information is contained
| within the IP anyway, though.
| FearNotDaniel wrote:
| In what sense is the user's local time zone "contained
| within" the IP? The only way I know to get from an IP
| address (i.e. those four eight-bit integers separated by
| period signs) to a client-side timezone is first to use a
| Geo IP lookup table to obtain a physical location (usually,
| but not always correct), and then use a timezone database
| to look up the current political timezone in that location.
| Sure, some server setups will automate this for you so that
| the already-looked up information is contained within the
| request object that your chosen language/framework
| supplies. Is there something I've missed about those four
| eight-bit integers somehow directly encoding information
| that specifies the user's timezone, or did you mean
| something different?
| eknkc wrote:
| It's available on the client side where most of the
| fingerprinting happens using JS.
|
| And I feel like this is a lost cause at this point. Just
| assign every one of us a unique online ID and be done with
| it.
| latexr wrote:
| I'd appreciate if you didn't try to bring everyone down
| with you, just because _you_ have personally given up.
|
| This recent HN submission is relevant.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083151
| FearNotDaniel wrote:
| True. But pro-privacy is the argument that the server no
| longer needs to geo-lookup your IP address and find out where
| you are with much greater accuracy than is needed to
| determine what timezone you would like dates/times to be
| displayed in.
| kleiba wrote:
| You could also compute the speech bubbles on the client's
| side...
| berkes wrote:
| Yes, but it seems
|
| > No JavaScript is sent to the browser.
|
| Is a design goal. I doubt it is possible without JS.
| Especially inside SVG.
| rpastuszak wrote:
| (Thinking aloud) How I'd approach that:
|
| - you could render the page using puppeteer server-side,
| getClientRect/calc and apply the dimensions to the path,
| then spit back the markup, OR
|
| - you could use HTML + CSS to render the bubbles
| encom wrote:
| "Tonight: Orange Reddit over-engineers a meme website
| that any normal person would just make with seven PNG
| files and getDay()."
| rpastuszak wrote:
| you might be laughing now, but following the spirit of
| the Orange Website, I'm building a moat with all of that
| know-how
| dlazaro wrote:
| Yes, that was a design goal!
|
| It is probably technically possible to have the time
| continue to update with just CSS on the client (based on
| [1]), but the initial time still has to be set server-side.
|
| [1] https://css-tricks.com/of-course-we-can-make-a-css-
| only-cloc...
| lordmauve wrote:
| I'd argue this is the wrong design goal: correctness is
| more important.
|
| I'm in the UK but my work PC's Internet exit node is in
| New York due to enforced use of corporate proxies, so the
| time shown to me is 5 hours out. Javascript would report
| the correct timezone.
|
| It is not possible to correctly identify physical
| location from IP addresses. Not just because of proxies
| and VPNs and the accuracy of the data: you can go near a
| border and find your mobile phone connects to a cell
| tower in a neighbouring country, without even visiting!
| IP Geolocation is accurate enough for statistics and
| marketing but probably shouldn't be used for anything
| user-facing.
| tdeck wrote:
| I love that this comment is on a novelty meme generator.
| Imagine if someone was late to their job interview
| because they were relying on the "What a day, huh?" meme
| to tell the time.
| mNovak wrote:
| Now this is an interesting idea.. a wall clock display
| showing the closest time-relevant meme..
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| ...is it pedantic if I ask if WASM is considered JS and /
| or whether it can run without any assistance from JS?
|
| I mean in the 2000s there were a number of other options
| (flash, silverlight, java, probably more) but that era is
| behind us, and that would be extra pedantic.
| jraph wrote:
| It could be a get parameter, with a picker allowing you to
| select your timezone.
| FearNotDaniel wrote:
| That would be an absolutely awful user experience, unless
| there was also a way to default to knowing what the user's
| actual local timezone is without them having to manually pick
| it from a list of the 38 or so currently in use. I mean, you
| could try to persuade browser builders and site developers
| that this new get parameter is a standard that is
| automatically added to all requests by all browsers, and
| honoured if the site developers feel like it, but that's kind
| of messy and effectively doing the same job that request
| headers were designed to do.
| pavlov wrote:
| _> "why Tintin is trending at the moment"_
|
| The Tintin character entered public domain in many countries in
| January 2025.
|
| I think this "What a week" image is from a 1930 album ("The
| Crab with the Golden Claws"), so it's part of the public domain
| now and can legally be used for things like this meme
| generator.
|
| The situation in EU is different though. Herge died in 1983,
| and I think his entire oeuvre has 75 years of protection after
| his death. I'm not 100% sure.
| zinekeller wrote:
| > The Tintin character entered public domain in many
| countries in January 2025.
|
| Many countries or only US (which uses the publication date)?
| Considering that the original publication is in Belgium and
| that almost all countries use the author's death as the
| benchmark, I am not so sure (even with the rule of the
| shorter term).
| zinekeller wrote:
| Update: Wikipedia's copyright notes regarding a Tintin
| file... is definitely not what I've expected https://en.wik
| ipedia.org/wiki/File:Tintin_and_Snowy_from_Tin...
|
| > Also note that this image may not be in the public domain
| in the 9th Circuit if it was first published on or after
| July 1, 1909 in noncompliance with US formalities, unless
| the author is known to have died in 1954 or earlier (more
| than 70 years ago) or the work was created in 1904 or
| earlier (more than 120 years ago.)
|
| And links to this footnote (https://guides.library.cornell.
| edu/copyright/publicdomain#Fo...):
|
| > The differing dates is a product of the question of
| controversial Twin Books v. Walt Disney Co. decision by the
| 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1996. The question at issue
| is the copyright status of a work only published in a
| foreign language outside of the United States and without a
| copyright notice. It had long been assumed that failure to
| comply with U.S. formalities placed these works in the
| public domain in the United States and, as such, were
| subject to copyright restoration under URAA (see note 10).
| The court in Twin Books, however, concluded "publication
| without a copyright notice in a foreign country did not put
| the work in the public domain in the United States."
| According to the court, these foreign publications were in
| effect "unpublished" in the United States, and hence have
| the same copyright term as unpublished works. The decision
| has been harshly criticized in Nimmer on Copyright, the
| leading treatise on copyright, as being incompatible with
| previous decisions and the intent of Congress when it
| restored foreign copyrights. The Copyright Office as well
| ignores the Twin Books decision in its circular on restored
| copyrights. Nevertheless, the decision is currently
| applicable in all of the 9th Judicial Circuit (Alaska,
| Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,
| Oregon, Washington, and Guam and the Northern Mariana
| Islands), and it may apply in the rest of the country.
|
| Also, Disney lost here ( _Accordingly, we reverse the
| summary judgment in favor of [Disney & co.]_). It _might_
| not even PD in the US if this is upheld (and it seems so).
| pr353n747-0n83 wrote:
| Being public domain decreases the liklihood that I will meme
| a given piece of IP
| oneeyedpigeon wrote:
| I assumed something like this header already existed because
| it's such an obvious need, but...
|
| > All HTTP date/time stamps MUST be represented in Greenwich
| Mean Time (GMT), without exception.
|
| according to [rfc2616](https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc
| 2616-sec3.html#sec3....). Presumably that makes a lot of
| awkward conversions unnecessary, but a separate TZ header would
| be a great addition.
| FearNotDaniel wrote:
| Yeah that HTTP date format thing is kind of orthogonal - the
| same document slightly later explicitly says it's talking
| about the format used within HTTP messages/headers and not
| relevant to user-facing display within the page content.
| Which in that case makes a lot of sense because it's
| effectively saying "use UTC everywhere".
| hkt wrote:
| I pasted this into slack every week for years, every Wednesday.
| People used to ask if I was OK if I forgot.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| I've got two months worth of wednesday videos [0] set up in a
| schedule :D
|
| [0]
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K4-jllrPrE&list=PLy3-VH7qrU...
| cryptonym wrote:
| Not to be nitpicking but Cloudflare will log and store request
| metadata, including user IP.
| dlazaro wrote:
| Valid, not nitpicking!
| Svip wrote:
| Can't believe it took me this long to notice, the meme itself is
| an altered image of the original comic. Obviously, the speech
| bobbles are too clean compared to the rest of the comic, but I
| also notice now that they are a poor imitation of Herge's
| distinct speech bobbles.[0]
|
| [0] https://i.kym-
| cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/125/139/0ff...
| dlazaro wrote:
| I am debating making a better version where the bubbles are
| appropriately sized and look nicer and the background is
| smoother, but I thought it might take away the 'memeyness' of
| it.
|
| I just went with the original background made by the person who
| seemingly invented the meme format on Tumblr:
| https://www.tumblr.com/incorrecttintin/162088281738
| berkes wrote:
| Herge took a lot of effort to get details right. Not just the
| drawings1, but also the layout and lettering of the speech
| bubbles.
|
| I own all TinTin comics in Dutch (some old collectors items)
| and a very few in French. Dutch is often a lot longer than
| French, and sometimes shorter - it doesn't use the same amount
| of letters, let alone the same width of them. The French is
| ever slightly more pleasing, but noticable so.
|
| The English translation you linked to, is even ugly in some
| places, it lacks the balance and spacing that Herge often
| meticulously and deliberately used to convey extra meaning or
| balance.
|
| 1 From The Blue Lotus on, Herge devoted far more attention to
| accuracy. Which is all the more impressive because he then
| distills all that accuracy to the most simple lines. I am a
| fan. And yes, there is certainly controversy, his early work is
| clearly very racist and colonial - which shows the ideas of the
| times they were drawn in clearly.
| inatreecrown2 wrote:
| Yes! this is what the internet was made for. Good job!
| azaaaz wrote:
| Thanks for this haha :) I would love to it translated in other
| languages (this meme is international), especially in French,
| Herge[0]'s original language. It may be a good idea to open-
| source it !
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herg%c3%a9
| frizlab wrote:
| Tangentially related, in English (and most languages) there are
| usually no spaces (or non-breaking spaces, which is the correct
| space before a punctuation marks in French) before the
| exclamation point (and interrogation point, semicolon and
| colon).
| wizzwizz4 wrote:
| Technically, the correct space before punctuation marks /
| within guillemets in French is U+202F (narrow non-breaking
| space).
| frizlab wrote:
| Ah! TIL
|
| Thanks :)
| guilbep wrote:
| Can someone vectorize the image please ? :p
| gvx wrote:
| What a fun little project! I thought it was going to be the 30
| Rock one!
| alabhyajindal wrote:
| Great project! Congrats!
| pahbloo wrote:
| Awesome idea! Just a thought, but a century version would be
| spot-on!
| dlazaro wrote:
| Thanks for the suggestion, will do! (I'll also be open-sourcing
| it, as I probably should've done before posting)
| MHM5000 wrote:
| fun! open source it, we can add more calendars and languages :D
| apexalpha wrote:
| Could you perhaps make one for the current US President? Seem
| fitting for the theme.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| "What a presidency, huh?"
|
| "Captain, it's week 5"
| latedog wrote:
| IDK why, but this reminds me of earlier days of internet, when it
| was full of random, non-usable but funny content like this. Best
| things often don't make that much sense.
| jraph wrote:
| A form of art :-)
| cprecioso wrote:
| I miss StumbleUpon
| arrowsmith wrote:
| Wait, StumbleUpon shut down? I had no idea.
|
| That's sad, that site was great.
| Tijdreiziger wrote:
| There's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938061
|
| (no affiliation)
| 1121redblackgo wrote:
| And this: https://cloudhiker.net/
|
| (also no affiliation)
| lippihom wrote:
| Ahhh - golden age of internet fun. Looks like they sold the
| domain and/or pivoted a bit. Feel like a modern version would
| be relatively easy to monetize if someone were to ramp it up
| again.
| matteason wrote:
| I've noticed https://clicktheredbutton.com quite a lot in
| my referrer analytics. I don't know if it's as featureful
| as StumbleUpon was (I never used it) but it seems to have
| some fun sites
| reverendsteveii wrote:
| stumble was the algo sweet spot. an endless feed of things
| that are slightly better than being alone with my thoughts,
| but no parasocial "community" with concomitant toxicity.
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| Yeah I think what killed the web was Google and Facebook.
|
| The former brought massive amounts of spam and the latter
| brought real identies which broke the freedom of the
| internet.
|
| Or in other words, both brought the Internet and made it
| real and connected with the real world. And I think that's
| not a good thing. The Internet was supposed to be a virtual
| space for exploration, learning, fun, and it should have
| had no bearing on our actual day-to-day living experience.
|
| But now here we are where Google is a spam filled search
| engine which hardly returns any products and Facebook is a
| dystopian wasteland and its founder is walking around like
| a teenage pimp.
| herval wrote:
| I don't think real identities broke the internet... what
| really did it was the perfecting of the addiction
| formula, by multiple companies (from facebook to king).
| It turned it into an Opium den
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| I think companies would have had a much harder time in
| perfecting the addiction formula if things were
| anonymous.
| SiempreViernes wrote:
| We all still had defined identities back then, the nicks,
| even if we didn't use real names. And those are enough
| for targeting.
| herval wrote:
| Tiktok is entirely anonymous (well other than you showing
| your face if you post). So is Reddit. So is Candy
| Crush...
| dingnuts wrote:
| >The Internet ... should have had no bearing on our
| actual day-to-day living experience.
|
| Replace "The Internet" with previous communications
| technology and maybe that will demonstrate how completely
| unrealistic that sounds. Television should have had no
| bearing on our day-to-day existence? Phones? Radio?
|
| I guess you can arbitrarily draw the line at the
| Internet, sort of like the Amish did with electricity.
| But it seems arbitrary to me.
|
| The moral of every sci-fi story is that technology is
| morally neutral and it's how you use it that matters. Why
| would The Internet be different?
| singleshot_ wrote:
| BBSes had absolutely no bearing on my day to day
| existence. No one had a job working at Big BBS and there
| was not a constant drumbeat of hustle culture
| strugglebussing surrounding the idea of using a modem to
| post messages.
|
| This was the ideal final form of the internet and we lost
| it forever. Now, we have sludge.
| asdff wrote:
| I consider sites like facebook to be akin to diverting
| water from the Colorado river. At one point it looked
| like the nile delta from antiquity and today barely a
| trickle if that at some times reaches the sea with so
| much water diverted. The ecosystem diversity falls apart.
| cosmotron wrote:
| Kagi Small Web has been fun to explore and reminds me a bit
| of the StumbleUpon of yore: https://kagi.com/smallweb
|
| If you'd like to read more: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
| Apocryphon wrote:
| Also Wiby!
|
| https://wiby.me
| dlazaro wrote:
| Happy to hear that -- it's what I was going for :)
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| If it was horrible and had music, it'd be like YTMND
| executesorder66 wrote:
| What do you mean non-usable? You could totally spam the work
| slack channel with these.
| hnaccount_rng wrote:
| I don't think you are meaning quite the same "early internet"
| if you are referring to Slack channels xD
| Ensorceled wrote:
| Pretty sure they were addressing the "non-usuable" part and
| not the "early " part.
| devmor wrote:
| s/slack/irc
| executesorder66 wrote:
| As sibling comments have correctly guessed, I was only
| responding to the "non-usable" part of the parent comment.
| But yeah, replace slack with IRC, email, or whatever you
| were using at work back in the day.
| ghayes wrote:
| Though, sadly it's not a true image; it's composed as an SVG
| in HTML. So you can't copy-paste the image into chats.
| executesorder66 wrote:
| I noticed that after the fact as well. You could always
| manually take a screenshot to turn it into a jpg. Or just
| send the link.
| eterpstra wrote:
| Welcome to ZOMBOCOM
| dylan604 wrote:
| To this day, I still can't figure out how to do anything
| staplung wrote:
| You can do anything at Zombocom. The only limit is
| yourself. The infinite is possible at Zombocom!
| dylan604 wrote:
| > The only limit is yourself.
|
| Kick a man while he's down why don't you? /s
|
| It takes courage to admit not being able to do anything!
| xtiansimon wrote:
| More clicking, please. OP mentions different versions, but you
| can't get to them from one another (at least on mobile). The
| hyperlink is the aesthetic of www. If you don't have them, then
| it should be evident why not. Leaves me scratching me head.
| dlazaro wrote:
| I did that intentionally because the only thing I wanted on
| the page was the comic panel. I may reconsider and add a
| small info button in the corner of the page with links to
| other timescales and the source code.
|
| But I'm also trying not to overthink this too much... It's
| just a silly little website I made in an evening.
| whstl wrote:
| I like the minimalism myself.
| skeeter2020 wrote:
| if you are going for a "classic" internet aesthetic,
| remember we loved wonky, quirky (and annoying) UX! If it's
| not grey background with blue and purple links (and a
| server timestamp in italics!) it's got to be completely
| custom & non-standard. My request is image maps please!
| fckgw wrote:
| "Single-serving site" is the term you're looking for. The best
| part of the early, mass-appeal internet IMO
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-serving_site
| dhosek wrote:
| dancing hamster
| cyberlimerence wrote:
| I was wondering why the caption was empty, but it's because of my
| Dark Reader extension inverting the text color to white, without
| touching the box color. Just a heads up.
| dlazaro wrote:
| Ah, that's too bad. I do plan to update it so that the speech
| bubbles are SVG objects instead of embedded in the image, which
| should make it dark mode-friendly.
| zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
| I've been having one of those weeks. This is hilarious. Thank
| you.
| tcascais wrote:
| Omg I loved it so much. Thanks :)
| isoprophlex wrote:
| This is absolutely fantastic, well done!
|
| If you're not done playing with it, you can make it dynamic so
| it's always accurate, haha! Show the smallest "uncompleted" unit
| of time available with a fallback for December 31st evenings
| where tintin simply says nothing...
|
| At night: select the week.
|
| Also end of the week: select the month.
|
| Also end of the month: select the year.
|
| Also end of the year: fallback.
| dlazaro wrote:
| Great suggestion, and thank you!
| kemayo wrote:
| That's a good idea -- it'd preserve the _intent_ of the meme,
| which is to always be conveying "it has not been as long as it
| feels like based on events".
|
| As-is, if I visit and see "what a day / it's Friday", that's
| kinda missing the point.
| ritcgab wrote:
| At the end of the year: select the decade.
|
| Dec 31 2030 will be monumental.
| unoti wrote:
| What a century it's been...
| chichumichu wrote:
| I woke up and wanted to make this for a tuesday.Thanks.
| reverendsteveii wrote:
| I like the way the humor of this joke travels along a spectrum
| from relatability to absurdity as time cycles. Using the weekly
| one as an example, I think it achieves peak relatability on a
| wednesday, because that's the best intersection of being deep
| enough into the week to feel like its been a long one but also
| not so far into the week that you're seeing the light at the end
| of the tunnel and feeling hopeful. Peak absurdity for most people
| would likely be the weekend. I'll not be hearing arguments for
| Thursday, as I could never get the hang of Thursday.
| gglanzani wrote:
| I actually said "have a good weekend" to the baker last week on
| Monday, so, for me, anything until Wednesday checks out
| brendanfinan wrote:
| - 'What A Life': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5yUmmgYCa0
| khaneja wrote:
| I would love an iOS version of this to put a widget on my phone!
| zelias wrote:
| feature request: 30 Rock mode
|
| source: https://i.redd.it/to3v225w8nlz.jpg
| Pxtl wrote:
| I honestly expected OP's "what a week" meme to be Liz Lemon
| until I saw tintin in the URL.
| Ayesh wrote:
| If only HTML had a locale-aware <time> element with custom date
| formatting :(
| fsckboy wrote:
| > _[1]https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh_
|
| > _" In the episode, the character Liz Lemon, portrayed by Tina
| Fey, complains to character Jack Donaghy, portrayed by Alec
| Baldwin, about having finished a hard week of work, with Donaghey
| reminding her that it is still Wednesday"_
|
| I don't know any context beyond what's in this clip of Liz Lemon
| saying it to Jack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z3uGyBM_1c
|
| but "what a week" by itself does not indicate that the week is
| over, you can say "what a week" in the middle of a week; it would
| imply more the multiplicity of things that have _already_ gone
| wrong, and "it's Wednesday" as a response has the sense "and
| it's _only_ Wednesday, more things can still happen "
| dylan604 wrote:
| In writing classes, adding all of that unnecessary dialog is
| considered insulting to the audience. If you are trying to
| write a joke for the lowest denominator audience member, then
| you will alienate a larger portion of the audience. If every
| single joke needed that much additional context, it's not a
| funny joke. If you're going to require the writers to add that
| much dialog, you might as well ask them to add a laugh track
| Ylpertnodi wrote:
| Truth be told, that's all the one of the differences between
| American and British comedy.
|
| Slapstick is cool, but irony needs to be understood.
| snarkyturtle wrote:
| The proper context, too, is that Liz Lemon is in charge of
| showrunning a Saturday Night skit show and is facing many
| challenges. "Lemon, it's Wednesday" implies that there are many
| things that can go wrong in between Wednesday and Saturday.
| kaboomshebang wrote:
| Love it
| lambdaba wrote:
| Cute, but I find it funny to reach for Astro, a framework with
| over 400 dependencies, just for this. I'm sure it's super
| convenient, so maybe it's more of a principled take.
| dlazaro wrote:
| I chose it because it's what I'm used to and because it makes
| it really easy to do SSR (I wanted no JS to be sent to the
| client).
| wodenokoto wrote:
| How does the joke play out on Saturday or Sunday?
|
| "Captain, it's Sunday" ... I don't get it.
| Kwpolska wrote:
| > Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the
| request IP (not logged or stored). No JavaScript is sent to the
| browser.
|
| That's a strange design. If you sent just ~10 lines of JavaScript
| to the browser, you could achieve an actually live-updating
| version (i.e. not only on page refresh), and you could use the
| actual time zone of the user instead of assuming it based on
| GeoIP. Your page could exist with zero server-side code.
| rimunroe wrote:
| The xkcd Now comic[1] is also done server-side. There's an outer
| image showing day/night cycles which never changes and the part
| with the map and all the labels is rotated within this. The
| server simply has a precomputed set of images for 15 minute
| offsets, and chooses whichever to render based on the current UTC
| time.
|
| [1] https://xkcd.com/now
| dlazaro wrote:
| Source code: https://github.com/dnlzro/tintin
| hansjorg wrote:
| This is a "fun" idea, but I'm a bit troubled by the fact that
| you've chosen to release this right now.
|
| Are you implying something? Not that subtle, truth be told. I'm
| not American, but hopefully there are someone here who knows the
| proper X-handle or other official authority to report this to.
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