One of my most prized possessions is my collection of personal screenshots -- I've managed to save basically every screenshot I've taken over the past ~20 years. It's very nostalgic to put them on shuffle and see how my desktop has changed over time, remember what random thing I was working on, etc.
Could be cool to extend the concept beyond one user.
As a self-taught software dev; it helped me hone good design skills and also off topic - I poke around a lot when I visit certain websites to see which technologies they are built with. Maybe it was me testing js scripts or verifying the API/Object properties of certain functions - the habit stuck haha.
Dey well
I have vague plans to do something with these one day. But until then, I hoard!
Rarely any get added these days, and they're all on private. But it's fun to look back at which games I've played over the past ~14 years.
Not a lot melonking sites.
My younger bro makes music, my older bro (a dev like me) critiqued his new vocal track just this evening. I said it’s fire; he called it cliché. We exchanged looks, and my younger bro quipped, “Perspective is all it’s about.” We laughed.
As they say, One man’s trash…
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Just tried and it's working here in the US.
You don't even need something fancy like WebGPU/WebGL, just the CSS transition property will do the job there.
PS: As someone who worked on internet search, I can assure you that at least half of most popular web pages change in about 6 months time. And the change is in no way something that can be done by bots.
Of course not all is bad, but I'd love to see some creativity again, it seems like almost no one dares to break the norm anymore.
Ton of people complained, they hated it!
That's why everything is fucking boring, because everybody tries to cater to the average.
This is why consistent UX beats out cleaver design (churn)
Like if someone wants to do crazy stuff, that’s fine, do it as an art project, whatever.
But IMO the only people who benefit when businesses and institutions are required to turn their websites into works of art, are artists. Everyone else is worse off.
A bit quirky is exactly how I would have described it and once I accepted scrolling one direction would move the page wherever the designer wanted, I was fine.
I guess we found all the kids at Ender’s battle school that couldn’t imagine the enemy’s gate as “down”.
https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/43832710/how-f1...
Don't get me wrong. I like creativity. I am an artist, even have a degree in Fine Arts. But there are times to innovate, and there are times to just make things work. Web UX needs to just work.
The reason they’re not specifically concrete cubes is more to do with the relative unpopularity of brutalist design than it is to do with the artistic flair of architects.
In fact I’m sure most architects would love to stamp more of their creative personality into their work but they have to dial it back for cost and practicality reasons.
We're really just reinventing brutalism but without much of the commendable outcrops like the barbican or whatever.
Whereas other examples were left to deteriorate because wealthy people moved elsewhere. And thus all people see is dilapidated, ugly concrete.
While we are on the topic of brutalism, one of my most disliked Sci-Fi tropes is concrete buildings used as "futuristic" buildings. I honestly think the only reason they do this is because concrete is featureless so it could be from any era. If they used Victorian-style architecture or Germanic Gothic buildings then all you'd see is historic-looking architecture which would pull you out of the moment. But I, personally, cannot "unsee" concrete buildings in Sci-Fi. Everytime I see that I just see lazy set design. Plus I'd hope in a few hundred years we'd have found a better building material than concrete.
Then there are the innovations people had tried over the years like different styles of kid seats, calculators built into the handle, coupon scanners built in, security boots on the wheel, Aldi store coin lock connectors, motorized baskets, Ikea escalator locking wheels.
Thinking further, the designs change across the various countries I have visited over the years.
On top of this, I can visually picture all the different styles the groceries and department stores use near me to "brand" their carts and experience directly(Target's specific branded plastic carts and baskets). The very much see the shopping cart as part of their customer experience and have experimented with different setups. One could argue that the scope of utility for a shipping cart is miniscule compared to many websites. And yet, there is actually a lot of variety.
Given how there are people dedicated to so many seemingly insignificant corporate details(email signatures and other branding activities), it seems custom "website experience rules" would slot right into that line of thinking.
So, yes, it does break the back button, but it doesn't pollute the actual history.
What a story: https://thehustle.co/million-dollar-homepage-alex-tew
EDIT: I just realized, there are weird sites even on onemillionscreenshots.com. Type in obscure, older-style URLs via the search bar until you find one, then go to its screenshot. If you're lucky the surrounding sites will be more older-style and weird, less store pages.
Example: https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=red-lang.org, https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=gunnerkrigg.com
- Open source wasm runtime
- Science transparency campaign
- Netherlands gov anti-climate change program
- open thesaurus
- GNOME conference
- France's portal of towns and cities
- Scientific measurement standardistion page
- Scientific journal
- free eBook library
- parked domain
- Linux community
- Open source graphics library
- placeholder/template blog
- A book publisher (selling books!)
It took quite a while to find a commercial site,and that itself (a bookseller) is a positive thing itself.
Never before has it been popular to monetize your body. That's why the world's oldest profession famously has nothing to do with it.
I’m one of the makers of this - thank you for posting!
We built it in early 2024 and it’s due an update.
While the main visualisation is currently out of date we’ve been grabbing screenshots monthly for the last 18 months. There’s a a free (no key required) API to all the data at https://ScreenshotOf.com
I’d love to hear any ideas you have for improving it.
https://ryancompton.net/2017/08/18/one-thousand-captcha-phot...
A long time ago I used to make mosaics of game-making competition screenshots https://williame.github.io/post/143376853353.html https://williame.github.io/post/127137593983.html
The algorithm for doing so is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_algorithm
It might be fun to offer some mosaic layouts as well as the embedding-based layouts?
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> Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP
Firefox 130 from Snap on Ubuntu. And I don't recall customising any SSL configuration to restrict the set of available ciphers or similar.
Not gonna lie, I was expecting at least an orchard or some other fruit.
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Not quite as pronounced as it seemed at first, yet definite spikes around 0.7, or 178.
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