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I googled Peter K Joneleit after your description of him in the README and I was curious if you were just having a bit of fun or if he was involved in defining
by smcl 6y ago
I googled Peter K Joneleit after your description of him in the README and I was curious if you were just having a bit of fun or if he was involved in defining these web standards. Hooooo boy I was not prepared for his Twitter, it is wild
- so_this_is_me 6y agoWow you're not wrong about his Twitter, that was an adventure. It's so over the top I actually can't tell if it's meant to be satire.
- jtwaleson 6y agoI was just having fun when I wrote it. Just saw his twitter feed... wow...
- jtwaleson 6y agoTo be honest I did see some conspiracy stuff on his website, but I decided to ignore it and just focus on the beautiful Flash animations. Not sure how I feel about it.
- smcl 6y agoI think it’s ok to separate the art from the artist, so to speak. The original site is indeed interesting and a nice example of Flash web design from the era, the Twitter acct doesn’t change this
- fortran77 6y agoI'm sorry. I looked at this website, and he explicitly blames me and my people for controlling and destroying the country (and the World Trade Center) and wants me destroyed. I can't look away from that. It's sad that that's OK on Y Combinator's Hacker News, but at least I know what I'm dealing with here.
- superdisk 6y agoHe's clearly an insane person. There's no use getting worked up about what some digital hobo is screaming.
- smcl 6y agoIf you interpreted this thread as an endorsement of anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists then I think you ought to re-read it. To restate in case it is unclear: the original author of the page turned out to have hateful views, but it needn’t reflect at all on the homage that jtwaleson made and they shouldn’t feel bad about it.
- patates 6y agoI don't think you should feel bad for admiring his work. I'd hesitantly say that he may have some mental troubles and we should rather feel bad for him, which I personally do, sincerely. It's like how many admired TempleOS.
- lfowles 6y agoWhew, "some" is putting it lightly.
- kylowinter 6y agoWhen trying to recreate the site in HTML5, how did you not notice the big "SOL" button on the flash page linking to his blog about how the Jews did 9/11 and other nonsense?
- jtwaleson 6y agoSee my other comment. I gave it a cursory look and ignored it and I'm not sure what I feel about that. I agree with some others in the thread and try to look at the "art" separately from the "artist".
- fortran77 6y agoHacker News is full of people who support this sort of thing.
- jtwaleson 6y agoI can assure you that I do not support this.
- newswasboring 6y agoAs soon as I saw his handle is literally "GodSend14" I knew I was in for a nice ride.
- someperson 6y agoEccentric like the late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS creator
- newswasboring 6y agoLets call a spade a spade. Its not "Eccentric", he either has serious mental health issues or is an American far right conspiracy theorist. And don't you go implying that all American far right conspiracy theorists have mental health issues, that is not proven or even logical in many ways.
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- andai 6y agoThe man's talking about prophecies, comets and reptilians.
- newswasboring 6y agoMarjorie Taylor Greene, who is a member of United States congress literally blamed forest fires on Jewish space lasers. It's hard to discern these days who has mental issues and who is just conspiracy theorist. Unless a doctor has diagnosed someone I will reserve my judgement
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- anamexis 6y agoLink: https://twitter.com/godsend14 https://twitter.com/godsend14
- smcl 6y agoI deliberately did not include it as it has some pretty awful stuff