I love the style of the site. It doesn't look prehistoric but also doesn't have that modern corporate feel to it. Just balanced! Lovely illustrations, did you make them yourself?
As I was clicking on next to go to next profile, I came across a profile that didn't have the widget, so I wasn't able to move forward! Perhaps you can add logic to move only to those profiles which have widget showing!
Thank you very much for building this, gives a community like feel!
There's a section in the linked Wikipedia article that describes Jorge Luis Borges tracing the origin of the concept back to Aristotle's Metaphysics.
That's the best thing I've read today. I've often heard the monkeys-on-typewriters imagery, but never related it to an idea of a "total library" which contains everything that can ever be written, probably even itself. I suppose the digits of Pi may be considered such a "library".
"Strictly speaking, one immortal monkey would suffice."
Unfortunately the distribution of entry of characters by humans is not likely to be uniformly random, hence this will not occur even if all of humanity were to stumble across this readme.
It doesn't appear to work for me. I tap a letter but it refreshes the page, goes to top, with no letter appended. Cool idea though, would love to see it working.
How can this work on Github when Github's image proxy has a 4-hour cache?
It's frozen in time and can never be updated as fast as this (https://kbd.jse.li/screen.gif), afaict, without making commits that repeatedly update the readme image url to bust cache.
OP: You might want to add some basic rate limiting in the range of 3+ clicks per second. Currently you can flood the http endpoints to spam a single action (like backspace). Given GitHub's TTFB of 700ms for this page, I don't see how a regular person could type anything quicker than that, unless they had multiple tabs open.
apologies, my seriously unoptimized rendering routine is choking under the load. I'm restarting every few seconds to clear the screen...
edit: renders PNG instead of GIF (no more fancy blinking animation) to lighten the load a little. This thing is running on a $5 digitalocean droplet and performing admirably!
Readit News
https://octo-ring.com/
[0] https://github.com/veggiedefender
As I was clicking on next to go to next profile, I came across a profile that didn't have the widget, so I wasn't able to move forward! Perhaps you can add logic to move only to those profiles which have widget showing!
Thank you very much for building this, gives a community like feel!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
That's the best thing I've read today. I've often heard the monkeys-on-typewriters imagery, but never related it to an idea of a "total library" which contains everything that can ever be written, probably even itself. I suppose the digits of Pi may be considered such a "library".
"Strictly speaking, one immortal monkey would suffice."
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[1] https://libraryofbabel.info
[2] https://youtu.be/GDrBIKOR01c?t=1032
open dev tools –> network –> disable cache
Without caching it is indeed interactive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maybevain
It's frozen in time and can never be updated as fast as this (https://kbd.jse.li/screen.gif), afaict, without making commits that repeatedly update the readme image url to bust cache.
So how is it working for people ITT?
https://github.com/veggiedefender/typing/blob/master/handler...
edit: renders PNG instead of GIF (no more fancy blinking animation) to lighten the load a little. This thing is running on a $5 digitalocean droplet and performing admirably!
I wonder what the README will say once the firehose of Hacker News slows down.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon