Laws are different in different countries. The internet is in all of them.
What is it that you’re looking for, a useless “this site uses cookies” warning? That can mean anything, from a site that has a simple login feature, to a site that participates in a network that tracks you across the internet. The legal requirement for that notification is a great example of futile regulation that achieves nothing but globally wasted productivity. It’s like having to warn people that you breathe - regulators focused on the wrong common factor.
If you care enough about the issue, there are plenty of off-the-shelf blockers you can install.
The great irony of this post is that the author dreams of a world where they can use a library without it depending on hundreds of other modules, yet their website is built on Gatsby, an NPM package with one of the most insane dependency graphs I've seen. Uploading the author's website's package.json[1] into npmgraph[2] lists a total of 1561 dependencies. All that for what amounts to a simple blog site.
Why not use a different tool then? Hugo or Zola are mature and provide static binaries. If you want to stay in the Node world, I can recommend tinyjam by mourner (or anything by Volodymyr, really).
The point of the article is to complain about the state of the JS ecosystem as a whole. Of course there are workarounds and alternatives but it doesn't detract from the main point.
I agree, it doesn't detract from the main point, and I understand the purpose of the article. I only find it surprising that the website is built with Gatsby given the author's stance.
Surely the stance can come after and because of building the website?
There's a lot of projects that've taught me exactly what tool I wouldn't use if I were redoing them from scratch, but there's no time to start again or no wish to go through a lot of extra pain and work (until needed) to end up with the same end result.
But do you think there is a solution? Why do we have to bear such a painful ecosystem?May we are at an evolutionary stage where too much variety is proliferating, and over time things will converge into a few proven ways of doing things.
Whenever I see WebGL posts like yours & chiechanowski I think like these folks must really love JavaScript to create such masterpiece & with my apprehension towards the JS ecosystem I couldn't indulge myself to put such effort.
Your post on JS ecosystem resonates with me & perhaps there's a narrow gap for someone without liking the JS ecosystem could do something extraordinary with JavaScript.
The thing you need to know is that it is the name of the Joy Division album with the iconic cover. I didn't know that until I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35401185 which was posted a few hours earlier.
You probably won’t find exactly the video you’re looking for, but if you’re interested in creative coding and shader based animation, IQ (Shadertoy author) has some amazing videos on his YouTube channel. Shaders are tricky!
It’s a deep and fascinating development world, one much less thoroughly documented than the world of web apps. Good luck!
Hey, could you post the link of the channel you mean? Looking for 'shadertoy' in Youtube brought me only a playlist by 'The Art of Code'. Is that the channel you mean?
I've only only lightly dipped my toes into the webGL landscape, but I can definitely vouch for this man. I love the way he explains things. He's like the Carl Sagan of WebGL. I'll see if I can dig up a couple resources from my own foray drop them in this comment below.
I have the same background as you, this is my first WebGL project.
While building it I actually was thinking of making a video of the process some day, but I thought it wouldn't have an audience, plus, I'm not an expert, I might say the wrong stuff. But anyway, I'll be happy to make a video that would help others like me!
Not really code, but you might find Erin Dale interesting, he takes a lot of time explaining how he creates his amazing Blender geometry nodes concepts – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2NcNJQZFqw
„Love Will Tear Us Apart” might not be my favourite Joy Division song (that title goes to „Atmosphere”), but still I’m delighted to find this on HN #1. Splendidly executed. I watched in awe, then smiled at the final „Again” being rendered as a button.
> Interesting, never heard this version. Heard only another Joy Division recording of it and New Order's. Digging the lower tempo
It was written as a Joy Division song; Ian Curtis wrote the lyrics just a few weeks before he died. There are three Joy Divison recordings of it: one performed live (at what ended up being their final concert, though nobody knew it at the time), one studio recording, and one bootleg recording of a soundcheck for the aforementioned concert.
Because Curtis died before Joy Division finished the studio recording, all three recordings are unfortunately of suboptimal quality. Which is quite a shame - it would be nice to have an album quality recording of that final song.
<insert obligatory comment triggering a debate over whether "Ceremony" is really a Joy Division song or a New Order song/>
"Disorder" might be my favorite Joy Divison song.
Hard to pick a favorite New Order song since they had so many different eras and styles. "Ceremony" is the best of their classic post-punk works. "True Faith" was an incredibly influential song musically despite being less-known. "Temptation" and "Sub-Culture" are works of art.
There are a lot of great covers of the tune. I love Dean Wareham's. Every time he plays it, he seems to find something new.
His cover tends toward melancholy. Peter Hook's, a little angry, sometimes triumphant. There's a cover by Day Wave that's almost happy. Several ambient covers that range from, I dunno, anhedonic to transcendent.
Picking favorite New Order tracks is especially difficult since many of their singles have multiple mixes, with substantial differences. For example I always prefer the gothier 12" remix of Sub-Culture, or the dancier Shep Pettibone remix of "True Faith". And meanwhile with some hits like "Bizarre Love Triangle" there are far too many versions to even keep track of...
Thanks for the tip, but I have a follow up question. When is best to pour an oblation of goat's blood to the Dark Lord? Is it just as I'm defenestrating the laptop or while it is midway in its descent? I've heard that's also part of the puzzle.
I just ask ChatGPT at least 5 times using different prompts then take the most frequent response. The result is aligned correctly as long as you don’t resize the browser window.
Start pouring as the laptop leaves your hands, keep the stream going until it kisses the ground. The idea is having a rain of blood around it for the whole trip down.
Garden sprinkler can may be a useful tool in this circumstance.
I once wrote a webgl viewer for viewing results of CFD simulations in 3D in a web browser, and doing the 3D stuff was an easier than getting the text and GUI components to align nicely the way I wanted.
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What is it that you’re looking for, a useless “this site uses cookies” warning? That can mean anything, from a site that has a simple login feature, to a site that participates in a network that tracks you across the internet. The legal requirement for that notification is a great example of futile regulation that achieves nothing but globally wasted productivity. It’s like having to warn people that you breathe - regulators focused on the wrong common factor.
If you care enough about the issue, there are plenty of off-the-shelf blockers you can install.
[1] https://github.com/poeti8/pouria.dev/blob/master/package.jso...
[2] https://npmgraph.js.org/
There's a lot of projects that've taught me exactly what tool I wouldn't use if I were redoing them from scratch, but there's no time to start again or no wish to go through a lot of extra pain and work (until needed) to end up with the same end result.
Whenever I see WebGL posts like yours & chiechanowski I think like these folks must really love JavaScript to create such masterpiece & with my apprehension towards the JS ecosystem I couldn't indulge myself to put such effort.
Your post on JS ecosystem resonates with me & perhaps there's a narrow gap for someone without liking the JS ecosystem could do something extraordinary with JavaScript.
Havent played around too much with WebGL but this is a tiny inspiration.
3D web is fun, and Three.js and React Three Fiber make it easy to start from somewhere. I aboslutely recommend trying them.
I would love to watch a video explaining how this was made from idea, first line of code, to publishing. Especially what tools were used.
It’s a deep and fascinating development world, one much less thoroughly documented than the world of web apps. Good luck!
https://iquilezles.org/
EDIT: here are the links as promised.
1. https://thebookofshaders.com/ (mentioned above, I think)
2. https://threejs.org/docs/ (of course)
3. https://docs.pmnd.rs/react-three-fiber/getting-started/intro... (optional; good for React and those comfortable for maybe don't dive right in until you get a good grasp on Three.js)
4. https://threejs-journey.com/ (a paid course with some good intro lessons as freebies)
Hope this helps!
Also, threejs journey is worth it. Lots of great content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ifChJ0nJfM is probably the the most beginner friendly.
https://thebookofshaders.com/ is another great place to start.
Good luck and enjoy!
While building it I actually was thinking of making a video of the process some day, but I thought it wouldn't have an audience, plus, I'm not an expert, I might say the wrong stuff. But anyway, I'll be happy to make a video that would help others like me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zPIod2wjYE
It was written as a Joy Division song; Ian Curtis wrote the lyrics just a few weeks before he died. There are three Joy Divison recordings of it: one performed live (at what ended up being their final concert, though nobody knew it at the time), one studio recording, and one bootleg recording of a soundcheck for the aforementioned concert.
Because Curtis died before Joy Division finished the studio recording, all three recordings are unfortunately of suboptimal quality. Which is quite a shame - it would be nice to have an album quality recording of that final song.
"Disorder" might be my favorite Joy Divison song.
Hard to pick a favorite New Order song since they had so many different eras and styles. "Ceremony" is the best of their classic post-punk works. "True Faith" was an incredibly influential song musically despite being less-known. "Temptation" and "Sub-Culture" are works of art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Nkrav2-Aw
There are a lot of great covers of the tune. I love Dean Wareham's. Every time he plays it, he seems to find something new.
His cover tends toward melancholy. Peter Hook's, a little angry, sometimes triumphant. There's a cover by Day Wave that's almost happy. Several ambient covers that range from, I dunno, anhedonic to transcendent.
Picking favorite New Order tracks is especially difficult since many of their singles have multiple mixes, with substantial differences. For example I always prefer the gothier 12" remix of Sub-Culture, or the dancier Shep Pettibone remix of "True Faith". And meanwhile with some hits like "Bizarre Love Triangle" there are far too many versions to even keep track of...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sCZV2_z5w4Q
(I am the author)
(Sadly without music)
> index-e853a9de.js:40 TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'indexOf')
works happily in FF though
Garden sprinkler can may be a useful tool in this circumstance.
then just justify align items self thingy