I do really like this! I had never even heard of 88x31 buttons yet when presented with a few of them I got instant nostalgia for the “old web” of my youth.
I think it’s my age speaking again, but I would have preferred Arial for this, as it’s much more legible to me than the final bitmap font he chose. He could have simply sped up the animation to account for only fitting 11 words per page and kept the whole thing in a reasonable time (if 19 hours is reasonable to you).
skyyler 1 hours ago [-]
Arial would not look good at three by five pixels per character, would it?
lubujackson 1 hours ago [-]
Mostly useless but genius, hand-written text and code.
It is so, so refreshing and I love it.
sodimel 4 hours ago [-]
This is a really great article! It show some simple tools calls and is still very small (no long wall of text to read). Thank you!
wartywhoa23 4 hours ago [-]
I recommend enabling the Glamour mode. So hilarious in a good way :)
jaffa2 2 hours ago [-]
I like it. Can we have a general glamour mode plugin for all web pages.
He made an animated button gif that scrolls the entire text of Moby Dick.
4.2 Mb, 19 hours long.
Top quality useless proof of concept. 10/10.
ImageMagick was created and written in C by John Cristy (also known as Cristy) in 1987 while working at DuPont https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageMagick
I think it’s my age speaking again, but I would have preferred Arial for this, as it’s much more legible to me than the final bitmap font he chose. He could have simply sped up the animation to account for only fitting 11 words per page and kept the whole thing in a reasonable time (if 19 hours is reasonable to you).
It is so, so refreshing and I love it.