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CodeReddit: Cover UI for Reddit at Work
- unk 11y agocan we get this in JS?
- sktrdie 11y agoMeh, your job must really suck if you have to do this.
- ljk 11y agonothing new either, there's also outlook disguise https://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/ https://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/
- JorgeGT 11y agoAnd Word disguise! http://pcottle.github.io/MSWorddit/ http://pcottle.github.io/MSWorddit/
- industriousthou 11y agoYeah, a lot of people have jobs that suck.
- pearjuice 11y agoI really detest Reddit tbh (to be honest). It is just a continuous circle jerk of the common denominator making jokes and puns to appeal to the common denominator. People keep saying "that's just the default subreddits, try other subreddits!". But the entire site is build on the premise of collecting karma and getting awarded for appealing to as many people as possible. How else can you do this than to post content which appeals to the common denominator? It's like people continuously patting themselves on their back for being so witty. Having said that, if you are really so inclined to browse social media on your boss's clock and instead of looking at the real deal you have to cover it up by pretending to be working - you should sort your priorities.
- bennyg 11y agoSure, that happens. But Reddit has so much more to offer - case in point being the fellow that programmed Solitaire as an intern at Microsoft coming in and giving his personal story as a comment. Reddit is full of shitposts and otherwise terrible things, but no more so than any other "social media" type of site.
- markdown 11y agoFor anyone who missed it: https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3zfadv/til_that_microsoft_solitaire_was_developed_by_a/cylwpua https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3zfadv/til_th... Others dropped in as well... like the girlfriend who designed some of the card art, as well as a roommate or neighbour.
- adamnemecek 11y agoMake an account and subscribe to subs that you are interested in. It's so much better than twitter for staying up to date with things.
- ryan-allen 11y ago+1 on this, once you get away from the front page there is quite a lot of good content for every imaginable topic!
- beefsack 11y agoAvoid the default subscriptions, they're absolute garbage. Reddit subcommunities, especially technical ones, have some fantastic discussion in them.
- edem 11y agoWhy on Earth you want to appeal to anyone? Karma on Reddit has zero worth. If you want to gather reputation on StackOverflow I can understand it. But on Reddit? No reason. I actually only read the Clojure and the DwarfFortress subreddits and I never experienced anything like that.
- pkrumins 11y agohttps://lol.browserling.com/incognito.png https://lol.browserling.com/incognito.png
- personjerry 11y agohttps://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/ https://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/
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- specifictso 11y agoI've seen a similar concept before: http://4chancode.org/ http://4chancode.org/ I like this one more though, the code looks more realistic.
- personjerry 11y agoRelevant discussion, "Are you paid to look busy?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7725736 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7725736
- existencebox 11y agoApologies that this contributes very little, but my (lack of) sense of humor found this unintentional circular reference chuckleworthy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726325
- sdegutis 11y agoThis is brilliant. I just love seeing creativity and outside-box thinking like this. Sure, it's not going to solve world hunger or revolutionize mobile computing. But you know what? I don't care. It's fun, it's whimsical. 10/10, would click again.
- thieving_magpie 11y agoI'm probably not going to use a site with 'reddit' in the domain if I need to hide my traffic to reddit.
- personjerry 11y agoYou can hide your URL bar
- Buge 11y agoI think the point was network monitors.
- tokenizerrr 11y agoIt makes API requests to reddit from your browser. All this website is good for is trying not to look obvious to people looking over your shoulder.
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- beefsack 11y agoPlease make a dark version!
- liquidise 11y agoNifty idea, but really lacking 2 obvious features 1) Make a dark version. Who codes on white? 2) Remap H J K L to arrow keys
- Killswitch 11y agoAlso skin it to look like an editor, and then have the user go full screen, because who codes in a browser window?
- sehr 11y agoI code in default themed chrome if I'm just making a simple webpage! Dev tools has become really capable, but that's hardly programming ;)
- crayak 11y agoAgreed... though you can do a few simple inspector edits that let you change the background and link colors to make it appear the way you want it.
- JorgeGT 11y agoI manage my blog (uses Jekyll) in Cloud9, one of those web-IDEs with a VPS backend, and it's great. You can get access to your own dev-box from any browser.
- whalesalad 11y agoThe mad man behind aprilzero.com uses a non-monospace font on a light background last time I checked. What an animal.
- molteanu 11y agofor 2), Firefox + Keysnail works great for me. Awesome keybindings everywhere.
- glitchdout 11y agohttp://codereddit.net/ http://codereddit.net/ uses a dark theme.
- plg 11y agoBlank screen on iOS with Purify anti-tracker installed Hmmmm
- r0naa 11y agow3m reddit.com
- r-s 11y agow3m reddit.com/.mobile
- d4rkph1b3r 11y agoYou should definitely quit your job if browsing reddit makes you look worse than writing code in PHP.
- jrcii 11y agoThere's nothing wrong with PHP.
- krisdol 11y agoNot until you try to run it at least
- mirkules 11y agoCan you elaborate? I might have been having problems with PHP for 10 years without even knowing it didn't run!
- mschuster91 11y agophp is one apt-get install away. Java, not so much (for example).
- karlshea 11y agoOr you know, anything with Ruby. Especially two things that need two different versions of Ruby!
- spoiler 11y agoThis would be problematic for any programming language, though. However, if you do want an elegant solution for your problem, may I recommend ruby-install[1] and the companion for easily changing between versions, chruby[2]. Alternatively, you could try RVM[3]. There are a couple more versions (one is even specifically designed for Windows), but I found ruby-install and chruby to be the most convenient ones for both personal and professional use. [1] https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install [2] https://github.com/postmodern/chruby https://github.com/postmodern/chruby [3] https://rvm.io/ https://rvm.io/
- president 11y agoThere's also http://gumho.github.io/codehn http://gumho.github.io/codehn for Hacker News which is entirely client only. Disclaimer: mine
- Semiapies 11y agoAnd, unlike the Python version of this, provides valid Python code.
- yeukhon 11y agoThis was done for facebook at one of the FB Hackathon....
- mmahemoff 11y agoHas the term "Boss Mode" fallen out of favour? I thought "Cover UI" was going to be Reddit reimagined as album or magazine covers.
- bananaboy 11y agoHaha I remember hitting the boss key in Leisure Suit Larry 1, I think it showed a fake productivity graph or spreadsheet or something. Surely no one actually used that to pretend to be working!
- sdrothrock 11y agoI think the two things are different. "Boss mode" is a quick cover to hide something you're doing (e.g. hit F9 to replace a game screen with a black screen with a command line), but this is a complete replacement UI for doing the actual activity while appearing to be working.
- BlakePetersen 11y agoIn an organization as flat as mine, Cover UI works really well actually. Not sure who my Boss would be...
- kevindeasis 11y agoThis was hilarious. At first, i thought, why did someone bring me to a wrong link? They gave me js instead of the real link. Then I started reading the js and I was like this is hilarious. It is hilarious that I found a js code to be beautiful. this is good work!
- nik736 11y agouhm, js??
- joallard 11y agoI guess JS really is the new PHP
- kevindeasis 11y agoWhoops, php. I didn't even notice the syntax
- sideproject 11y agoLove it!
- fencepost 11y agoIf your need to get onto reddit is so strong that you have to do it at work and hide it, you have problems other than whether someone sees it over your shoulder. If you get on reddit at work for work-related reasons, you should be fine - and if you won't be, this isn't going to help with the problems in your office.
- icebraining 11y agoIf your need to get onto reddit is so strong that you have to do it at work and hide it, you have problems other than whether someone sees it over your shoulder. No, it just means you enjoy reading it and you're willing to break some rule you probably consider dumb and inconsequential. Why do you think people have to have a "strong need" to be willing to break workplaces rules?
- LulzSect 11y ago"The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."
- forgotmysn 11y agoWhat if - and believe me this is a hypothetical - but what if you were offered some kind of a stock option equity sharing program. Would that do anything for you?
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- ruffrey 11y agoIs there a JavaScript version with a dark theme? (serious)
- designorant 11y agohttp://codereddit.net/#/?lang=javascript http://codereddit.net/#/?lang=javascript
- brhsiao 11y agoI used to do disreputable web browsing in w3m. If you use a scary looking font like 6x13 and something like Solarized, no one stands close enough or cares enough to check.
- BlakePetersen 11y agoWe need a version using my custom Monokai theme ASAP! ;)
- TeMPOraL 11y agoMakes me again wish for a proper Emacs mode for Reddit (and HN; I'm thinking about writing it if I ever get out of current avalanche of commitments). I've been IRCing from Emacs for many years; most of the people around look at my screen (and tiny font) and have no clue whatsoever about what I am doing. Sometimes the screen shows code, sometimes my notes or contents of a folder, other times an IRC or IM window, and it all looks the same.
- Quasimoto3000 11y agohttps://github.com/clarete/hackernews.el https://github.com/clarete/hackernews.el
- jay_kyburz 11y agoThis would be a lot easier to read in Python.
- otterpro 11y agoYou can cycle through other languages including Python, C#, XML, etc. (Click on the language link on top)
- noer 11y agoIsn't it easier to just use Lynx as a browser?
- riebschlager 11y agoOh Hacker News, you have a delightful way of sucking the fun out of almost everything.
- CrowFly 11y agoI thought all the cool kids left reddit for voat.co anyway.
- onetwotree 11y agoThe is very cute! Well executed too. But if you're banned from taking a reddit/HN/tumblr/FB break at work, maybe it's time to look for a job that values what you produce, not how you produce it.