tldr: here's a story and a video about the coolest thing that's every happened to me.
So, as you may have seen, I recently made a website called One Million Checkboxes. It had...a million checkboxes on it. But the bit was that they were global - checking or unchecking a box changed it for everyone on the site immediately.
The site was (shockingly?) popular; hundreds of thousands of players checked over 650,000,000 boxes in the two weeks that I ran the site. It made the New York Times; there's a Wikipedia page. The whole thing was nuts.
About a week into running the site I thought I'd been hacked. And a few hours after that I was sobbing - extraordinarily proud at some brilliant teens.
I've written up the story on my blog and made my first youtube video about it!
Originally I wanted to crosspost the whole thing here, but there are enough images and gifs in the blog (and enough emotion in my voice in the video - I keep crying thinking about it!) that I can't really do that here. Sorry!
Anyway! Hope you enjoy the story :)
