A suspiciously criminal portfolio website
blueshirt.com
blueshirt.com
If you leave the site open and run the following code snippet, you'll be able to heat your house with your laptop.
window.onscroll = function(ev)
{
if ((window.innerHeight + window.scrollY) >= document.body.offsetHeight) {
window.scrollTo(0,0);
};
};
function pageScroll()
{
window.scrollBy(0,1);
scrolldelay = setTimeout(pageScroll,10);
}This is the coolest thing I've seen this week.
I've done investigations with law enforcement before, and you're right, it is more electronic, but basically it's the same as what you see in the movies just on a screen (so it's searchable). But the software basically has you build clusters of people with evidentiary links.
But it was developed to mimic the old bulletin boards, which looked like what you see in the movies. And also the software is really expensive, so "hobbyist" investigators still do use the bulletin boards and yarn, because the electronic version is too pricy.
[1] https://docs.i2group.com/anb/9.4.1/analysts_notebook_welcome... [2] https://www.thomsonreuters.ca/en/case-notebook.html
Nailed it.
* This site shows serious web design chops; this is not something you can easily create on a Friday afternoon by combining standard frameworks and stackoverflow answers.
* This site shows an unusual way to basically show one's resume, a way that definitely stands out for its creativity and amount of work involved.
* This site imitates / parodies the common trope of criminal drama movies, and does so not only in a technically compelling way, but also, to my mind, hilariously.
I think it's a cool idea, but the way it works is offensively obnoxious to me as a software engineer. It hijacks the scroll functionality and very choppily pans around in random directions unrelated to what I wanted
That said, I'm not the target audience, haha. I think most people with hiring power would be really impressed with the clever idea and decent execution
Why don't more people 'hack' their own 'news' in such a fashion.
This is great.
Now since very few people do it (or at least it's definitely new for me), it does look cool. But I'm also happy that I didn't have to read through the whole thing and I could stop after a few minutes of scrolling.
Huh? Maybe you think it's annoying, but it's nothing but content.
”There’s no food!”
That said, I will just leave this here: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
Tired of hearing this pointless rant every time. Especially since this portfolio is something fresh and not just a cookie cutter WP theme with annoying animations. Web itself can be art or culture or whatever, if it takes 10 seconds to realize how to use it on your phone then big fucking deal. CURL is handy for reading web content I’ve heard, keeps you safe from unpleasant surprises
You are a) massively over-interpreting the comment you are replying to, and b) taking it way too personally.
I’m not personally offended but admittedly tired of reading this same stuff every week. Maybe I should read less comments, though, as HN is starting to feel like a groundhog week. Luckily not on the same level as Reddit yet.
I wonder what percentage of today's HN readership built a site along these lines using image maps:
What a stupid point. Make your shit less readable because appeal to nature. Even dumber than the usual reason, "I think it looks cool".
1. Everyone else
I would assume this is product-market fit or at least a good ROI for the work put into this.
Kind of similar to Prezi presentations.
The strings connecting the different concepts make it very intuitive to explore. Reminds me a bit of the old site maps that a lot of sites used to have (although most of them were pretty useless).
It's a clever and intriguing site - which I would expect from someone who works as a graphics editor for the NYT. And yet ... it also disappoints. Disable Javascript and reload the page and nothing happens. Attempt to tab through the site - even to the text and image links - and ... nothing happens. I understand the difficulties around making sites like this (more) accessible but major news outlets like the NYT (and, indeed, the company I work for) should be making much more of an effort on this.
Some of my personal investigations on making canvas things more accessible:
- Scrollytelling demo (very basic) https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/modules-006.html
- Before/after picture slider infographic https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/snippets-005.html
I'd assumed that I'd be able to move around the pinboard by touching and dragging, like a map, and it took a while to click that only scroll-like dragging was getting anything to move at all.
All jokes aside, this is very cool.
I wonder what the intersection would look like between awesome and memorable sites that are good for exploration and showcasing one's creativity, like this https://bruno-simon.com/ and boring and forgettable sites that are good for getting information out of in a familiar UX, like this https://stallman.org/
Maybe a toggle between "wow me but melt my CPU" and "bore me, but let me copy some paragraphs and bullet points for my notes about you", much like how we can have toggles for color schemes? Otherwise I have this silly image of an HR person engaging with this interactive experience when all they want to accomplish is fill out a few fields about you in the HR system hah. Of course, a PDF resume should cover most of those details, so it's not like there's anything wrong with being a bit fun on the web, either!
I wonder if you could re-hijack the scroll and scroll the page to locked-in points so someone can follow different red strings. Might be nauseating though if there is no transition.
I lol’d
For clarity, I don't give a fig what this guy called his website, but I think it's interesting that it happens to collide with a term well known in a small part of the world. You might care that some people have a negative association with it, but there are plenty of reasons not to too. It's just a fun coincidence imho.
Art and usability are often in conflict. And it's hard to determine what matters more here. Experiments like these may go viral. But may also cause the "right" people to miss the message because they can't follow the red thread. Literally.
It at least moved in firefox on my iPhone. But in firefox on my mac it doesn't move at all.
“Not only do all of these people exist, but they've been asking for their mail on a daily basis. It's all they're talking about up there.”
Also the hit area at the end for the email - pretty tiny.