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Show HN: My new personal website

14 points by tectonic 15y ago

tectonic 15y ago
I'd love comments and suggestions!
saiko-chriskun 15y ago
dude I love it :D. is the javascript you're using for the text an in-house solution or from a plugin?
- tectonic 15y ago
  In-house, fairly straightforward, plus jQuery.
alexholehouse 15y ago
Really nice, the only thing I thought is that it might be nice to "collapse" text back up into the keyboards which cascade them down? Really like the "You can see everything" pop up at the bottom after 7 clicks - I didn't use it, but it was nice to have the option
amirhhz 15y ago
Nice work! I'd had this idea for my personal pages, too, specifically for my CV/Resume! Would love to see a blog post describing how you've done it (I know the code is there, but a discussion of it would be informative).
tel 15y ago
I thought that was pretty cool up until I tried to hit the back button. It doesn't diminish the coolness, but it'd be a good thing to fix. (Also Go Jackets!)
- tectonic 15y ago
  I'm torn- it'd be fairly easy to use pushState to add history, but it'd also be very annoying for the site to add 100s of history pages to your browser. Thoughts?
Detrus 15y ago
Looks like http://www.telescopictext.com/ http://www.telescopictext.com/
- alexholehouse 15y ago
  Presumably why he credits it for the inspiration
iaskwhy 15y ago
It gets annoying pretty quickly but the idea is nice.
fuzzythinker 15y ago
Discovered your http://underthesite.com http://underthesite.com. I think it's a great & DRY way for those who want to tell users what technologies are used.
ByteMuse 15y ago
This is fantastic - I loved the ant simulation! It was a bit cryptic to get some of the content; perhaps you could have an alternative and more straight forward navigation system.
gobr 15y ago
I would like to know how that effects affect SEO.
ricknew 15y ago
The technology is cool and it works like a charm. However, the approach of using "mystery meat" navigation for an entire website is pretty tedious for this visitor.
hkmurakami 15y ago
Cute and incredibly memorable! It definitely made me 10x more interested in who you are and what you do :)

14 points by tectonic 15y ago

tectonic 15y ago

I'd love comments and suggestions!

saiko-chriskun 15y ago

dude I love it :D. is the javascript you're using for the text an in-house solution or from a plugin?

tectonic 15y ago
In-house, fairly straightforward, plus jQuery.

alexholehouse 15y ago

Really nice, the only thing I thought is that it might be nice to "collapse" text back up into the keyboards which cascade them down? Really like the "You can see everything" pop up at the bottom after 7 clicks - I didn't use it, but it was nice to have the option

amirhhz 15y ago

Nice work! I'd had this idea for my personal pages, too, specifically for my CV/Resume! Would love to see a blog post describing how you've done it (I know the code is there, but a discussion of it would be informative).

tel 15y ago

I thought that was pretty cool up until I tried to hit the back button. It doesn't diminish the coolness, but it'd be a good thing to fix. (Also Go Jackets!)

tectonic 15y ago
I'm torn- it'd be fairly easy to use pushState to add history, but it'd also be very annoying for the site to add 100s of history pages to your browser. Thoughts?

Detrus 15y ago

Looks like http://www.telescopictext.com/ http://www.telescopictext.com/

alexholehouse 15y ago
Presumably why he credits it for the inspiration

iaskwhy 15y ago

It gets annoying pretty quickly but the idea is nice.

fuzzythinker 15y ago

Discovered your http://underthesite.com http://underthesite.com. I think it's a great & DRY way for those who want to tell users what technologies are used.

ByteMuse 15y ago

This is fantastic - I loved the ant simulation! It was a bit cryptic to get some of the content; perhaps you could have an alternative and more straight forward navigation system.

gobr 15y ago

I would like to know how that effects affect SEO.

ricknew 15y ago

The technology is cool and it works like a charm. However, the approach of using "mystery meat" navigation for an entire website is pretty tedious for this visitor.

hkmurakami 15y ago

Cute and incredibly memorable! It definitely made me 10x more interested in who you are and what you do :)