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A website coding itself live

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Slightly related - a website that displays it's own source code:

https://no-gravity.github.io/html-quine/index.html

....inspired by https://github.com/secretGeek/html_wysiwyg -- thanks!

Nice. Here's another: https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html

For the curious, this is called a quine, and it's a fun challenge in every language, to write on.

http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html

The trick here I didn't know about is that a `<style>` element's default `display` is `none` and you can show its contents by changing that.

Here's the guy he said he got inspiration from: https://jakealbaugh.com/

I think if liked those you would also like:

http://acko.net/

http://worrydream.com

yeah, acko.net is awesome. I remember seeing it the first time a few years ago and being blown away by the intro.

yeah, 2013: http://acko.net/blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/

just absolutely blew my mind as well

this talk by the same author is also great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkx1aKv2z8o

The inspiration in particular is this demo, if you want to see how it's all working. - https://codepen.io/jakealbaugh/pen/PwLXXP

What's even more impressive than Sam's web site (which has been online for years) is that he and his two Hong Kong-based co-founders bootstrapped Bitmex, a multi-billion dollar company that handled over US$1 trillion of trading volume over the past year with almost no investment.

When they launched in 2014, no one on HN cared! 2 points and 1 sarcastic comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8750453

That is very impressive self-advertisement. I watched the whole thing.

Came here to post my favorite part: "At this time, I am busy. I am happy to entertain proposals for later work but immediate availability is scarce."

Why is the transition property prefixed with - webkit- only? Immediately this starts off on an incompatible, vendor-locked foot.

Edit: seems all of the properties are Webkit- prefixed. :/

It seems to use the prefix for the browser you're visiting the site in (I see -moz- properties). Fine, but I'm not convinced the prefixes were required at all for quite a few of the properties.

It's legacy. This dates back to April 2015 when there were still some reasons to use prefixed properties. Rather than list all of them in css - which would have been ugly - I choose the one useful to your browser.

I thought it was gonna be like an experiment I did a while ago, a webapp that can edit and deploy itself. Ended up with prototype[0] but would love to see the possibilities in a more polished version, and thought this submission was it!

- [0] https://github.com/victorb/self-editing-website

Watched the whole thing - very cool.

This is really well done! Kudos!

v2 is a SaaS that builds itself. this includes the value proposition.

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