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feross
Adding my useless website to the list: http://magickeyboard.io - it’s fun to build one-off random sites and put them out there :)
Aeolun
Oh, that moment when I find I can simply hold down my finger.
_g5hh
Surprisingly ... uh, motivational to type. Add a small editor screen on the bottom and it could be some version of written? kitten!
viraptor
If you're using vscode, you may be interested in the power mode then: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hoovercj...
tomcam
The great thing is this worked perfectly on a cell phone with no keyboard enabled
tentacleuno
How did you build this? I'd be very interested to hear more about it. Do you have any write-up about it, or is this more off the cuff?
lemarchr
There's a GitHub link to source in the top-right corner, if you're interested: https://github.com/feross/magickeyboard.io
jedimastert
Have you ever played the game Little Inferno? I can't place it but this feels like that. (And I mean that in a very good way)
markbnj
I got a laugh out of that with the first characters I typed. Thanks :).
beeskneecaps
Amazing. Someone needs to add Missile Command or Space Invaders to this.
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johnnyApplePRNG
I feel like google adsense or monetization in general was the downfall of all of that early web richness.
When the web was first created, everybody got on and just started learning html and making things... because humans are creative.
I did the same. I made fun websites with/for my friends. I loved geocities.
Then after a few years, I was only concerned with pumping out crap content and how many pageviews I was getting.
jjeaff
Not having monetization certainly leads to quirky, genuine, and campy stuff, and having easy monetization certainly leads to crap. But having monetization has also lead to some amazing content and free services today that we never had before and probably never would have had.
Things like photopea.com which is created by one person would probably have never progressed beyond the very basics were there no ad revenue to be made.
Additionally, there are countless bloggers and content creators that create rich, amazing content and there is no way they would be able to do anything close to what they are doing if they couldn't make a living at it.
johnnyApplePRNG
Advertising partnerships were always possible with good content creators.
I posit that the ability for even the lowest level of content creators to make a few pennies hawking their crap is what has lead to the downfall of the greatness that was the early web.
lagrange77
In those days, everybody who was anybody had its own star trek fansite, where you could download midi files and gifs of rotating 3d klingon logos.
rchaud
I miss those pixelated, homemade icons!
Now if you want a GIF, you have to pick one from GIPHY, a Facebook owned company.
sitkack
Like and Subscribe!
101008
Found this one, good one! https://mondrianandme.com/
salgernon
In the 90s, Berkeley Systems sold a screen saver package that included a module called “Mondrian” - but were sued by his estate and had to change the name.
ugh123
Reminds me of all the great stuff zefrank made back in the day http://www.zefrank.com/ although much of it lost(?) in old Adobe Flash tech.
.. and new stuff today https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOHbM4GGWADc5bZgvbivv...
suzzer99
Hypnotizing.
hughrr
This is an all time favourite. Also ported from Flash at some point!
iamtedd
Lost the secret link at the end, though.
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billiam
Old enough to remember every single thing on the early Internet was some version of this, other than the astronomy and physics papers that my girlfriend and her fellow scientists exchanged.
Websites that take my time > Websites that take my money (and my time).
TheresNoTime
rjuyal
My favorite
(@OliyTC)https://t.co/WMubKL3hPM https://twitter.com/OliyTC/status/1487183820893802499?s=20&t...
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ineedasername
Well that's the first time that's happened to me in a while. This round, good sir, is yours.
twic
Okay, now where's Bad Apple?
EDIT oh it's here, i hadn't scrolled down far enough: https://twitter.com/Legonzaur/status/1487018326601748483
hinkley
You're going to hell.
makach
oh you evil man
LewisVerstappen
Lol. Can someone explain the context here for those out of the loop?
jccalhoun
Apparently the title is a meme taking from DragonBall Z https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dont-you-lecture-me-with-your...
FabHK
Thanks for the link & background, KYM is superb (and of course on !kym with DDG).
Off-topic: from "top entries this week" on KYM, I just learned that the Bodganov twins (of Bogdanov affair fame, reverse Sokal hoax), have died (within 6 days of each other). Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794879
tim333
Yeah anti vaxxers got by covid.
Trasmatta
DBZ memes are some of the first ones I remember as a kid, before we called them memes. I'm enjoying the resurgence of them (although this particular one isn't my favorite).
duxup
I don’t even pay $30 for a haircut…
serial_dev
I thought it was supposed to be expensive? Don't you lecture me with your fancy and expensive haircut? Though I didn't watch Dragon Ball that long, so I don't know. Maybe he is belittling him that his haircut is so cheap?
iso1631
My wife cuts mine and the kids, takes about 5 minutes and no problem with our double crowns. Before then I'd get a haircut whenever I had the time, usually once every 6-9 months. At one point I went for 5 cuts in a row (about 3 years) getting a haircut on a different continent each time.
okwubodu
Lucky. Mine started at $15 + tip and slowly creeped up to $20 until New Years 2020 when every decent barber seemingly unionized and went to $40/cut.
[something something it wasn’t like this under the XYZ administration]
nkrisc
Even cheaper if you cut your own hair. I've already recouped the cost of equipment many times over.
Works best when you're not going for some fancy look though and just want something clean and simple.
stjohnswarts
lol no doubt $15 is top for me (and $5 tip). All I get is a head shave, it literally takes them 5 minutes tops.
riidom
Mine maybe when inflation-adjusted.
reaperducer
Barber schools always need people to practice on. $8 + tip.
starkd
Another version of this is "don't lecture me with you and your store-bought hair cut"
wodenokoto
It’s a pretty funny line. Anyone know what the original Japanese was?
tetromino_
In original context, was a $30 haircut supposed to be cheap or expensive? In 2022 in my neighborhood, $30 is somewhat on the expensive side for a men's haircut (a basic haircut at a trendy barber shop is $25) but extremely cheap for a women's haircut. But what was the intended meaning of the phrase in Japan in the 1990s in relation to the characters speaking it?
polka_haunts_us
Well first of all, I don't think the phrase existed in the original Japanese, only in the English dub where they made the creative decision to make the character who says it talk like some Redneck Trucker.
The context is said Redneck Trucker is a robot who has been programmed to kill the main characer, Goku. One of Goku's friends says something about how if he does that he is just a slave with no free will. Our Redneck Trucker then points out that humanity has used their free will to do plenty of bad things, followed by our line here. So if you want to simplify its meaning, you could just translate it to "Don't talk down to me".
So in context, $30 is an expensive haircut, and the purpose is to indicate the speaker feels the target is talking down to him, but the actual reason has nothing to do with the target being rich as opposed to being human.
It could also be some meta commentary from the English side about how ridiculous the hair of everyone in the show or even the general genre is.
mike_hock
It would be $50 today assuming moderate inflation.
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tokumei
Damn, I’m getting my hair cut at the wrong place. I like my guy though. He massages my head.
notRobot
Some increadible creations in the original twitter thread! https://twitter.com/TheRealGDColon/status/148654144973899366...
Favorites:
https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheDerg/status/148679846766197555...
Bad Apple: https://twitter.com/Legonzaur/status/1487018326601748483
zamadatix
For Bad Apple I was thinking "wow this is actually a really accurate one given the limitations" then I burst out laughing just past halfway through from the absurdity.
kazinator
PRO TIP:
If you hover over an icon added to your work area, you can use the mouse scroll wheel to adjust the pitch of that element's sound sample. (I see now this is given given in some instructions above the text area.)
This elevates the tool from a simple toy for toddlers to the pro music audio domain.
Saving uses local files which is silly; you want to save into a URL.
guerrilla
You can make some real music with this. Too bad there isn't a share button instead of a save button, it'd probably go viral.
staindk
Yeah it seems that you would be able to store the 'save' text as URL parameters - though obviously at some length it'll be too long of a URL (and different browsers have different 'max URL lengths' AFAIK).
philsnow
You can pack more than you'd expect into ~4k if it's zipped and then base64-encoded.
echelon
This is the third time I've seen this today. It's already on my Twitter feed and one of my Discord servers.
guerrilla
Yeah I just found the original thread, packed with good jams https://twitter.com/TheRealGDColon/status/148654144973899366...
jjcm
Another fun (albeit far more simple) loop machine: https://adventuremachine.4thfloorcreative.co.uk/adventuremac...
Along with a build blog for it: http://wemakeawesomesh.it/madeon.html
jchw
I particularly enjoyed this tweet of it. https://twitter.com/retropetet/status/1487147720670269440
HollywoodZero
I got the context. But can someone explain how this is funny?
jchw
It’s basically a giant inside joke. Explaining it won’t do any good, not helped by the fact that in a lot of cases with ironic and absurdist humor, it’s not really funny on its own premise.
The meme basically took the phrase “Don’t lecture me with your thirty dollar haircut” and stuck it next to a bunch of emoji. For some reason, this transformed into videos where the emoji was interpreted as memetic audio clips. In some cases, I’ll admit the joke just boils down to “loud stupid noise funny.” But the reason why people find it funny, is literally because they know it’s not. You’ll even see them saying things like, “I know this isn’t funny, but I can’t stop laughing.” If anyone understands enough psychology to explain WTF is going on here, I’d love to know.
On the other hand, the meme, which is admittedly not really funny on its own, spiraled into a fairly neat website where you can actually sequence music, sort of like Mario Paint. I think that’s it’s neat regardless of what you think of the humor that lead to it.
financetechbro
All the psychology u need to understand is that it’s a __meme__
dudeinjapan
It is quaint and surprising, and therefore some Earthlings find it humorous.
Dylan16807
The original line, the meme after that, or this website?
The line is silly and strongly acted, I think it's easy to see why it's funny.
Then sharing it around and tossing some emojis and sound effects on isn't a huge improvement but whatever it's entertaining to throw some images and sounds onto things.
And it should be easy to see why this website is popular just as a music tool, with the line not very important and largely there to put things in a silly mood. Some people will find it funny and some won't, but there doesn't need to be anything funny about the website for it to be fun.
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sergiotapia
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dang
Please don't be a jerk on HN.
Edit: you have a long history of breaking the site guidelines. We've asked you many times to stop, but you've continued. You did it here just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096800. If you don't stop this, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so please stop this.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
fredley
Fantastic YTMND vibes.
TempoOptimiser
I reimplemented the playback routine to use the Web Audio API for accurate no-lag playback: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439347-thirty-dollar-rewri...
(Posting anonymously because my employer doesn't like me publishing code without their permission.)
zeta0134
Heh, this thing really needs a proper share feature. Lacking that, I exported my masterpiece instead: https://rusticnes.reploid.cafe/nyan.%F0%9F%97%BF
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This website is inane, juvenile and has no real use. And for all those reasons I love it. Kudos to HN for being a place where I can find things that just bring some silly fun to my life.
I remember in the early days of the Interwebs, there was so many sites just like this one. You didn't have to go to FB, IG or some other content mill to find them. Plus, when you did find one, it had the same feeling of excitement as finding a $5 bill on the sidewalk.
Here's some other great sites. * http://eelslap.com/ * https://theuselessweb.com/