As a modern front-end developer, it is disappointing that this app wasn't built in React. Parts of the site also worry me as they serve API responses in PHP and not GraphQL.
It would be best if someone could take the initiative to launch a contender that incorporates both GraphQL and React into the stack to future proof development. The current site could also take advantage of Next.js's automatic image optimization.
Well, I also feel that this year HN discussions are seeing more bickering and more endless discussions where we have seen each side’s arguments a thousand times. The discussions feel a little bit more predictable than pre COVID. Or maybe I just spend more time in the comments...
As a postmodern front-end developer, it is appalling that you attempted to pawn off a classical framework like React to the programmertariat. View frameworks like React and Vue are a waste of CPU cycles and network bandwidth. Not only are they packaged with the application itself, but they also proxy objects (`reactive`) so they can do their hooking. The new way is to compile one's app into an artifact that uses something along the lines of Apple's Clang Automatic Reference Counting to insert re-rendering statements in appropriate areas of the code.
You’re trying to make a joke, but the website could definitely be looked at again with modern expectations. It’s unusable on my iPhone. Even trying to pinch zoom somehow interacts with it. I couldn’t figure out its purpose before I lost interest and closed the tab.
The sarcastic attempt to say “look how amazing this without any modern tools” is out of place when the website isn’t very usable.
For real, I traded Atari games with Craig, the author of this site, in the late 1990's. He is an amazing dude. He also rode his bike around Australia and did a website about it: https://lunky.com/.
Haha yeah, it was just so random like I saw a photo of a table with a drawing of 9:25 or whatever... didn't get it at first, came back new photo with a number on it like oh...
I'm reminded of a video installation somewhere of a clock where ever minute a guy repaints the minute line, but I don't remember where or what it was...does this ring a bell with anyone?
Norway likes slow TV, and did this for a whole day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6urNqR7x1kE
I checked in for all the big transitions where multiple panels had to be changed at the same time.
This reminds me of Pharrell Williams' 24 Hours of Happy [1] which was a website that you could visit and it would show a music video timed to that minute. On the hour, ever hour, there would be a special music video with the Pharrell instead.
The song was a real earworm and I'm sure people got sick of it but I really loved that website. Even though the song became a bit too much at times, it was a brilliant thing to watch.
Fantastic and quite fun! This has been around for quite a while. I remember being obsessed with contributing to the Human Clock back in the day. I might go and search for my contributions over the holidays.
Thanks for posting. In the early 2000's me, my brothers, and my dad spent several months taking pictures and submitting each sequential minute between 8-9. Looking back probably 20 years later now it is quite amusing to still see the pictures there! It has been a long time since I heard about the human clock.
This is the brother of a former housemate of mine, from almost 20 years ago. I emailed him back then to tell him I saw the site and thought it was cool. He told me I should check out his other site: humancock.com.
When I clicked that, the page loaded and read something like, "Shame on you!"
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https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/image-optimization
Then again I can name at least one person who would unironically agree with what the GP has written.
I'd agree that this backwards technology stack about invalidates the project? \s
[1] https://svelte.dev/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting
The sarcastic attempt to say “look how amazing this without any modern tools” is out of place when the website isn’t very usable.
I’m 19 and get paid 600k (graduated from a boot camp last month), I could build this in a weekend too.
https://humanclock.com/poboxclock.php
> a 24-hour video supercut (montage of scenes from film and television) that feature clocks or timepieces.
It's played synchronized with the actual time of day. I got to see it in a museum in London. It was awesome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film)
For real, I traded Atari games with Craig, the author of this site, in the late 1990's. He is an amazing dude. He also rode his bike around Australia and did a website about it: https://lunky.com/.
(I once circumnavigated a country on foot but it was merely the Vatican.)
Years ago there was a beautiful book published called From Alice to Ocean about a woman who walked across the Western deserts of Australia:
https://www.amazon.com/Alice-Ocean-Alone-Across-Outback/dp/0...
It was notable at the time also because it was one of the early uses of CD-ROM to add a multimedia component.
http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/impact/s94/students/nataliez/nata...
Now I just refresh reddit and HN :-\",
https://youtu.be/e_3KY2gWDwg
http://maartenbaas.com/real-time/schiphol-clock/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88dflh7Dko4
There is also now a version at Amsterdam Schipol airport.
Here’s what it looked like: https://twitter.com/humanclock/status/1337926809166331905
The song was a real earworm and I'm sure people got sick of it but I really loved that website. Even though the song became a bit too much at times, it was a brilliant thing to watch.
[1]: The website is down now but the videos are all here on his Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKPi39tTpkdpjBVQZo5oF...
When I clicked that, the page loaded and read something like, "Shame on you!"
Wise guy, that guy ;-)