[HN Gopher] Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes...
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       Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)
        
       Author : chilipepperhott
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2025-07-03 15:58 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (ednamode.xyz)
        
       | Jonovono wrote:
       | Reminds me of rasterbation!
        
         | mrkramer wrote:
         | Reminds me of those videos where people make computers and
         | games within Minecraft:
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiapbD0Xfg,
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I
        
       | retsibsi wrote:
       | Sorry to go meta, but this is the first site I've visited that
       | actively fights back when I try to zoom out (or in, but the text
       | is already very big by default)! I'm wondering if it's deliberate
       | (why??) or a side effect of something else.
        
         | banana_giraffe wrote:
         | The site uses "font-size: calc(1.5vw + 1.5vh);" or some
         | variant, for most of the sizes, which has the effect to lock
         | the size for everything to the size of the viewport, regardless
         | of zoom.
        
           | peeters wrote:
           | Yeah that's a very bad idea.
        
         | ednaordinary wrote:
         | hi! This is mostly due to my opinions around scaling but I
         | didn't realize it impacted zoom so much, I'm not primarily a
         | web dev. I'll change this to conform soon.
        
       | lxe wrote:
       | This is cool but was hard to read because I think it lacks some
       | context... so "one of my friends" made a site where anyone could
       | toggle a checkbox on a large canvas of checkboxes?
       | 
       | And you (author?) set up a script to automatically toggle a bunch
       | of them at a at a time to anime a short video of Jake Gyllenhaal?
       | 
       | Was this done via rendering the site and toggling appropriate
       | coordinates, or through an endpoint/API?
        
         | pieterr wrote:
         | More context:
         | 
         | https://eieio.games/blog/the-secret-inside-one-million-check...
        
           | lxe wrote:
           | Aaaah this fills in the gaps! Thanks!
        
         | ednaordinary wrote:
         | author here! I mostly assumed the reader had some context for
         | this blog around omcb since it had gone viral and I posted it
         | in circles already familiar, but looking back that wasn't a
         | great decision. I'll likely revise this blog soon as there's a
         | few other things I thought I didn't explain well. thanks for
         | your feedback!
        
           | keysdev wrote:
           | Is there a demo or git of the page?
        
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