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nice. to anyone else curious about the difference between the two images in the repo, here's the difference and then equalized: http://telnet.asia/diff.png

searching for "emojipedia.com" breaks it

https://www.google.com/search?q=emojipedia.com

consider making .h04_h1.hero min-height 174px - otherwise the 'get started' button jumps around

this is a good analogy, in that some supermarkets feel soulless, whereas others feel really cozy, even though ultimately they both have aisles with stuff on shelves. it's like the difference between someone using a template versus making something by hand. there's a human feel to the latter.

i wish there was a way, with CSS only, to specifically target existing css rules, and have one rule change to another rule, globally. for instance, something like: [position:fixed] { position:relative }. i.e. that is different than * { position:relative }, because it doesn't apply position:relative to everything, it only changes position:fixed to position:relative.

the different seals on the page aren't aligned either http://telnet.asia/nim.gif

mcdonald's hamburgers are the worst. they are worse than burger king. a big mac has 26 grams of fat, a quarter pounder has 28 grams of fat.

that is funny, just the other day i was thinking about how i wished twitter, in particular, felt more 'fun', and started making a stylesheet to try and make it feel more 2006-ish or something lol https://i.jollo.org/xoYwhYpb.png

it's ironic (but expected) that this blog post talking about "fast font loading techniques" is riddled with problems: flash of unstyled text, flash of invisible text, square boxes until glyphs are loaded, difference in web font size causing the entire page to shift upwards to compensate for new height: https://i.imgur.com/Gxo5CUk.gif

shameless plug if you like these kinds of problems and want to incorporate them onto your own webage: http://hiccupfx.telnet.asia

screenshot of error for me https://i.jollo.org/gOYYYtrW.png

Coca Cola Freestyle machines

LED billboards

the worst coffee ive ever had in my entire life was from a starbucks drive thru. before i took a sip, the cup just smelled like a very specific mixture of xylene and sewage. i was extremely curious if it tasted as bad as it smelled and it did. 1 sip and poured it out the window; it was so eerily close to tasting like paint thinner that it made me wonder if thats what it actually was.

it's kind of interesting how BAD coffee can be. out of curiosity i googled to see if there has ever been a contest to see who can make the worst coffee and it turns out that's a thing. https://sprudge.com/the-horrible-true-story-of-the-worlds-wo...

missed opportunity to put the "just don't" message inside the footer of a page with infinite scrolling

i made something like this for live streaming encrypted audio/video, but for the web, if you are interested: http://pitahaya.jollo.org

i recently built a habitat for spam bots, they eventually found it and now post peacefully

https://upstairs.treehouse.telnet.asia/pharm/cylohexapine

anyone still using KDX? i have a server running on telnet.asia

the pointless animations on google search make the site truly unbearable to use, unless you have ublock to disable the animations. i can't believe it still has those animations, do people at google even use their own site?

[0] http://jollo.org/LNT/public/google-animations.html

try adding something like this to your ublock 'my filters' (if you add more, add the domains to each line, separated by a "|"), e.g. this blocks nytimes.com and economist.com.

    news.ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr:has(.sitestr:has-text(/nytimes.com|economist.com/i))
    news.ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr:has(.sitestr:has-text(/nytimes.com|economist.com/i)) + tr
    news.ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr:has(.sitestr:has-text(/nytimes.com|economist.com/i)) + tr + tr

> The ad is absolutely state of the art

it looked like a generic commercial from a generic company struggling to remain relevant. if a different company's logo had appeared at the end it would have made the same amount of sense... best buy, chuck e cheese, you name it. the soundtrack has the same 'hey i remember the 80s' desperation reminiscent of a wal mart commercial from 3 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxxORRqYW-Y

> And don't give me homilies about [...] "All creation is precious." [...] None of these things are true.

the statement "all creation is precious" is true from the perspective of someone else that also likes to "create" things by rearranging/juxtaposing/building off of content that already exists. the more "content" that is out there, no matter how trivial it may seem, increases the amount of source material that can be sifted through to find the perfect building blocks for something else.

random examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endtroducing.....

https://www.tommoody.us/archives/2012/03/28/guthrie-lonergan...

weird, several years ago i had a dream i had entered some kind of device that started to accelerate me towards the speed of light, and at the end of it i came to a point where it reached 'infinity' and it was like the most electric intense thing i had ever experienced, and i made a webpage to try and recreate and document what i remembered, and the color is almost exactly the same (strobe / flashing gif warning) http://jollo.org/LNT/public/dream.html

The "Why?" section on this site says things like 'it runs fast, can be customized to match branding, has a small filesize' etc.. But I'd like to know "Why?" as in "Why even add this supposed eye-candy to a web page in the first place?" I assume the answer is that it makes the page seem luxurious and opulent, which translates into the viewer believing that the page was probably time-consuming (and possibly expensive) to build, which translates into a sense of legitimacy and trustworthiness.

That explanation might have made more sense a decade ago before these types of effects were ubiquitous on the web. Now, it's easier than ever for anyone to drag and drop one of these preset visual effects onto their webpage. There's nothing to it anymore, people have seen them, the shine has worn off: There's no longer anything 'special' about these special effects.

Worse (as another commenter posted about always seeing these effects on 'crypto coin' sites) these effects are often used on sites engaging in confidence tricks - relying on dazzling the viewer with visual effects to convince them that their fraudulent scheme is legitimate. I associate stuff like this [0] with 'scam'

[0] https://img.freepik.com/free-photo/gradient-dark-blue-futuri...

ive been noticing something specific that seems not good: sometimes if you search for a series of words as an exact match, sometimes it will match but other times it doesn't, depending on which string of words you use from an article.

e.g. lets say a webpage has the following text on it: "hello my name is john my favorite color is red" .. searching for "my name is john my favorite" might find the page, but searching "is john my favorite color is" will return 0 results; even though the quote exists and should turn up the same result

lol i just noticed that

here is the desired effect they were looking for (added margin-top to <body>) https://i.imgur.com/tehEWx9.gif

1366x768

Update: 'The Team' section was removed from the site.

the term is 'liberating'

10 other people upvoted my 'i care' comment; they are here on HN, lurking