NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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email: contact at breadthcharge dot net

I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/4929459-here-s-my-five-minut

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hthrflwrs
@hthrflwrs

What's the funniest website? Not the website which contains the funniest content, but the website which itself is funny, through concept, execution, or just plain incompetence


micolithe
@micolithe

One of my favorite pizza places in northwest new jersey, Carmines pizza dot biz

Internet archive link from 2016, since they've gone the squarespace route in the years since


lexyeevee
@lexyeevee

of websites designed under the following constraints:

  • everyone has a 1024×768 monitor, probably. if their monitor is a bit bigger then that's fine there'll just be some extra space

  • since everyone has the same size monitor, we can simply position everything at a fixed point on the page

  • half the time, this was only checked in IE6 — which accepted plain numbers as lengths in CSS, which all other browsers ignore. i'll leave you to imagine the potential fallout here

it might just be that someone made a mid-00's wysiwyg editor that placed everything absolutely, because that's an easy way to design one, and we didn't have flexbox or grid yet. this particular website blames its crimes on homestead, but i have the inkling it's not solely to blame

but yeah every so often i stumble upon one of these fascinating artifacts, a website built like a physical paper pamphlet


NireBryce
@NireBryce

i think we should consider 1024x768 the default still


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in reply to @hthrflwrs's post:

in reply to @lexyeevee's post:

notably, homestead had an online java-based drag-and-drop editor for ages - dating as far back as the early 00s. it was a shithouse nightmare to use and spat out absolute insanity. this page looks like the dying breaths of said editor, or one of its redesigns over the years.

also fixed-resolution websites are actually goated don't @ me or whatever. pixel perfect everything plz.

online drag and drop in early 00s holy crap that's wild. i cannot even imagine the crimes it must've produced. i remember dunking on dreamweaver for its horrendous output as far back as like 99

i'll allow websites designed like they're for handhelds as long as you lean into it. give me border-image and a little spinning pixel-art chevron when i hover something and put a super game boy border around it when my screen is too big. and notably don't have text start to overlap when viewed on the wayback machine

dreamweaver was soooo bad about it too yeah. i think at one point i viewed the source of something i had made with homestead and it was such a mess i had no clue how to even modify it lmfao

Dreamweaver's html output may have been dogshit but it was useful for real-time previews of hand-coded HTML if you happened to have a copy because your college course inexplicably required it.

(I think the evolution of what I've used for writing HTML was notepad, Dreamweaver but not using any of the WYSIWYG features, the same code-oriented text editor I used for Java at college, and then back to notepad. I really need to get hold of a modern code-oriented text editor, I miss the colours telling me if I've remembered to close my tags or string value or not)

in reply to @NireBryce's post:

i cant that part of the window is now off the screen

this is almost as stupid as the time in 2008 I set window friction to 0 with bouncing windows on in compiz and had to wait 3 hours for the window to hit the workspace boundary, slowing down very slightly each time, so I could finally unclick a checkbox that would not let you toggle it when a window was moving even if you used the keyboard

almost.