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A suspiciously criminal portfolio website
- kordlessagain 4y agoGreat, now my fan is running.
- throwaway33381 4y agoah froze my computer while i wasn't looking
- Xeoncross 4y agoRuns smooth and silent on a macbook air
- Invictus0 4y agoMacbook air has no fan
- Xeoncross 4y agoYes, it was a plug for these impressive little beasts that make no sound.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoIntel ones do, I am pretty sure.
- rmorey 4y agosmooth and silent on the mac mini too
- Wistar 4y agoRuns fairly well on my M1 iPad
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- joshmn 4y agoPrecisely why I bookmarked under “brr” — things I open when I’m too lazy to get a blanket. All jokes aside, this is very cool.
- graypegg 4y agoCreative idea! Maybe you’re Pepe Silvia.
- bigmattystyles 4y agoThere is no Pepe!
- dccoolgai 4y agoThe comic genius behind that (which, for anyone who doesn't know is from Always Sunny in Philadelphia) is that Charlie, being illiterate, reads "Pennsylvania" as "Pepe Sylvia".
- Jerrrry 4y agoThat has been confirmed by writers via twitter to be incidental, not purposeful.
- dorkwood 4y agoI never understood this theory. Mac’s next line after Charlie’s rant confirms that Pepe Silvia is real. “Not only do all of these people exist, but they've been asking for their mail on a daily basis. It's all they're talking about up there.”
- PKop 4y agoI don't get it.
- devmor 4y agoIts a portfolio/resume in the style of a classic "criminology board" reminiscent of older procedural detective dramas - the kind before computers were widespread, where evidence would be mapped out and charted in person.
- mintysoap 4y agoI really like this. Does anyone else know of other extremely unique portfolio sites?
- arjonagelhout 4y agoAwwwards [0] has many creative portfolio sites, some of might conform a bit more to expectations of the modern web, but some are still fun to explore. [0] https://www.awwwards.com/websites/portfolio/ https://www.awwwards.com/websites/portfolio/
- vore 4y agoThe real question is who is going to be the first person to post about scroll bar hijacking in this thread? ;-)
- _boffin_ 4y agoi think you answered that yourself as the answer is... you
- vore 4y agoYou got me!
- goosemips 4y agoThat was the first time on a website that this behaviour genuinely confused me. I'd assumed that I'd be able to move around the pinboard by touching and dragging, like a map, and it took a while to click that only scroll-like dragging was getting anything to move at all.
- rikroots 4y agoIt's not scrolljacking - as I understand the term. It's a very tall body (50,000px) with a sticky full-viewport canvas element which must be animating (mainly Three.js) in line with the the progression of an intersectionObserver attached to the container/body as the user scrolls. This is an example of 'scrollytelling'? A word I learned about a few weeks back and is currently my #1 favourite ugliest neologism in the English language. It's a clever and intriguing site - which I would expect from someone who works as a graphics editor for the NYT. And yet ... it also disappoints. Disable Javascript and reload the page and nothing happens. Attempt to tab through the site - even to the text and image links - and ... nothing happens. I understand the difficulties around making sites like this (more) accessible but major news outlets like the NYT (and, indeed, the company I work for) should be making much more of an effort on this. Some of my personal investigations on making canvas things more accessible: - Scrollytelling demo (very basic) https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/modules-006.html https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/modules-006.html - Before/after picture slider infographic https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/snippets-005.html https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/snippets-005.html
- tthhrowawwway 4y ago[flagged]
- worldmerge 4y agoThat's pretty fun, very different.
- Xeoncross 4y agoAn impressive work of art to capture the attention of an entire network of leads who can afford to pay and certainly have machines strong enough to run this creative advertisement. I would assume this is product-market fit or at least a good ROI for the work put into this.
- alex_suzuki 4y agoThis is pretty slick. Although somehow there is no interactivity on Safari/iOS except the pan and zoom? „Next photo“ for instance in the photo binder doesn’t do anything.
- daimler86 4y agothe scrolling is giving me motion sickness
- irrational 4y agoToo bad it isn’t responsive for mobile devices.
- arnorhs 4y agoIt is. Works really well on my phone
- irrational 4y agoI’m on an iPhone 12 and it doesn’t work well for me. It is slow and unresponsive, most of the screen is hidden (not intentionally I think because the parts that are showing have words cut off and don’t make any sense), etc.
- nico 4y agoHard to navigate on Safari/iOS, but love the concept. Kind of similar to Prezi presentations. The strings connecting the different concepts make it very intuitive to explore. Reminds me a bit of the old site maps that a lot of sites used to have (although most of them were pretty useless).
- post-it 4y agoI found it easier to navigate on iOS Safari than desktop (swiping down is easier than scrolling for this kind of design, I find), but tapping the portfolio items doesn't work, which is a big issue.
- samstave 4y agoscroll on desktop with the arrow keys and get the same experience as mobile.
- madamelic 4y agoCool but frustrating when you want to get a different direction than the scroll is leading you. I wonder if you could re-hijack the scroll and scroll the page to locked-in points so someone can follow different red strings. Might be nauseating though if there is no transition.
- annoyingnoob 4y agoWhat is wrong with eating only Burritos? The $4.15 Guac is the real travesty there.
- cantSpellSober 4y agoIt's airport food
- CosmicShadow 4y agoAmazing, we need more cool stuff like this out there.
- Forgeties79 4y ago“Why is he writing so much Java?” I lol’d
- low_tech_love 4y agoInteresting. I browsed the website (as much as I could), then I looked at the comments, and I still cannot honestly figure out (a) why this was posted, (b) why is it suspicious, (c) did the OP think this was cool? (d) did they think it was horrible? (e) what the website is actually about.
- karaterobot 4y agoIt's a quirky twist on a portfolio site, that's it. The implementation is novel and interesting. People liked it, and upvoted it. I think that's all there is to it.
- gaws 4y ago> It's a quirky twist on a portfolio site, that's it. Nailed it.
- LastNevadan 4y agoMy first thought is that someone had created a HN-specific bot network to upvote it. It was annoying useless site without content and couldn't understand how it got to the first page.
- blowski 4y agoI upvoted it because I found it interesting because it was quirky and put together in an unusual way.
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- vlunkr 4y ago> without content Huh? Maybe you think it's annoying, but it's nothing but content.
- xwdv 4y agoIf you’re not interested in the content, then there is basically no content.
- felipelalli 4y agoIt's unplayable in my mobile. Too slow.
- nullnix 4y agoWorks fine on my Fairphone 4, and they are definitely only midrange...
- waltbosz 4y agoI really like the photos. I'm not into sports at all, but his photos do a really great job of telling the story of a single moment in time. The good composition plus the exact right timing makes for great photos.
- mkl95 4y agoIt's pretty laggy on Chrome/Windows, but I love this kind of "organic" design. Makes me want to shake off the rust of my little frontend work and build something cool.
- HollywoodZero 4y agoIt's laggy on Safari on Mac too. It's moving at like 15 FPS, so it's pretty choppy.
- Aldipower 4y agoNot laggy on Firefox/Linux.
- nickphx 4y ago"blueshirt is the stomping ground for Jeremy White, who is currently a graphics editor for The New York Times and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. He is a designer, animator, coder, cartographer, photographer and data visualization enthusiast. Here you'll find a few recent examples of his work and some other insanely fun facts about him."
- ipaddr 4y agoIt reads like a hit piece on him like he is involved in something shady.
- VoodooJuJu 4y agoPretty neat. If you leave the site open and run the following code snippet, you'll be able to heat your house with your laptop. window.onscroll = function(ev) { if ((window.innerHeight + window.scrollY) >= document.body.offsetHeight) { window.scrollTo(0,0); }; }; function pageScroll() { window.scrollBy(0,1); scrolldelay = setTimeout(pageScroll,10); }
- initramfs 4y agoyeah, my cpu usage rose to above 80% without any running any additional code, though I couldn't say if it's a bitcoin miner as I am code-illiterate, for the most part.
- johnnypangs 4y agoIt seems like it just scrolls through the page on a loop.
- initramfs 4y agoyes, I think the cause for the high cpu usage is a large, possibly uncompressed image file that takes a bit of processing to display in the browser, although other methods could be used to limit the processing or make the computation more efficient.
- narag 4y agoI had the same car model for a couple of years, in red. Mine did have reverse, but the engine used to heat the same as your script and then generated a dense cloud of white smoke. This is the coolest thing I've seen this week.
- bhollan 4y agoHow do people build things like this? Is there a package that helps at all, or is it really just fighting with CSS for a few months to get it how you want it?
- radicalbyte 4y agoFun buy the site is very very slow on my M1 Macbook Air.
- noobermin 4y agoTo contra the top comment, I found this cute. He also has quite the credentials.
- duxup 4y agoDoes it not at all work in Firefox in macOS? Or is it just me? It at least moved in firefox on my iPhone. But in firefox on my mac it doesn't move at all.
- JohnBooty 4y agoWorks perfectly for me in Firefox + macOS on my 2018 MBP.
- davidjade 4y agoThe real suspicion is finding an airport meal for less that $25
- Y_Y 4y agoBlueshirt[0] is the Irish equivalent of the Italian Blackshirt or the German Brownshirt. Except that they were much less serious or influential, and also are the ancestor of the current (centre-right) ruling party. All that to say it's not a great name, depending on your cultural context. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueshirts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueshirts
- lolinder 4y agoThere are 8 billion people in the world naming things all the time. Naming conflicts are essentially inevitable if we treat everything as belonging to the same global namespace.
- initramfs 4y agoAgreed. It's inevitable that groups are going to want to bond around some artifact such as clothing, a tattoo, or other mutilation ritual.
- Y_Y 4y agoThis is a pretty shallow take. The significance of two things sharing a name isn't that it happens at all, it's the expected cross-contamination between the two concepts in the subjective experience of the reader. "Michael" is a perfectly good first name, but if your last name is "Bolton" then maybe you should think about other names for your child. Then again if you live in a culture where most people haven't much awareness of American music from the 80s then it won't matter. For clarity, I don't give a fig what this guy called his website, but I think it's interesting that it happens to collide with a term well known in a small part of the world. You might care that some people have a negative association with it, but there are plenty of reasons not to too. It's just a fun coincidence imho.
- tempodox 4y agoIs there precedence for criminal prosecution of hijacking the scroll function?
- Domdomkusu 4y agoi loved it. !!! I think being developer is this.
- uxcolumbo 4y agoNeat concept, but slow interactions and difficult to navigate. Also the hit area at the end for the email - pretty tiny.
- fferen 4y agoWould be better if you could pan around the board. Having only linear scrolling kinda defeats the concept.
- alf_souzin 4y agoInteresting!
- nateb2022 4y agoMy 1st gen Surface Go (dual core Pentium 4G RAM) running Windows 11 and Firefox took it like a champ. Didn't even notice it was resource intensive until I read the rest of the comments :O
- unnouinceput 4y agoThat's because the commenters here never heard of uBlock Origin. My firefox with NoScript and uBlock Origin didn't even broke a sweat. Though I did had to enable in NoScript the domain. Also it runs http only (so no secure connection either).
- dkuebric 4y agoNo https, very suspicious!
- panzi 4y agoWell, it certainly doesn't conform to accessibility regulations.
- hugozap 4y agoAdding a hidden html with all the plain text that can be read by a screen reader would be easy or a (switch to boring html version button)
- sacrosancty 4y ago[dead]
- IncRnd 4y agoI'm not going to load JS for what is billed as "a suspiciously criminal portfolio website".
- residualmind 4y agofeels like 2003 again
- INTPenis 4y agoI wish the "here" links had some sort of status text or hover text, why would I just blindly click links?
- rybosworld 4y agoMy ryzen 5900x spikes to 70% usage from this site - usually only goes that high when doing machine learning.
- Mandatum 4y agoJeremy, I think this is neat.
- wardedVibe 4y agoIf I could actually follow the edges myself, rather than getting put on a rail, this would be awesome. As it is, it has the scrolling-but-not-actually that I hate about some modern websites. Such as some data presentations at NYT and other papers.
- ryukoposting 4y agoI have NoScript on, so it was blank when I opened it. Reading the first couple comments, I thought it was going to be mining Monero or something. Nope! Just a portfolio site that's horrible on mobile devices. Noted.
- radiojasper 4y agoThe website ran fine on my S22. It wasn't perfect 60fps, but it did the job.
- ryukoposting 4y agoMy LG V35 was very upset.
- bofadeez 4y agoDid bots upvote this?
- Mathnerd314 4y agoI didn't like how the text wrote itself out one letter at a time. If it was a real "crazy wall", it would be static. Maybe the animation timing was messed up because my computer is slow, but it felt like I spent forever waiting for the text to write and only a little bit actually looking at the content.
- BulgarianIdiot 4y agoThis is really a cool concept and great execution. And also I completely couldn't be assed to read this person's actual portfolio through this UI. Art and usability are often in conflict. And it's hard to determine what matters more here. Experiments like these may go viral. But may also cause the "right" people to miss the message because they can't follow the red thread. Literally.
- abhayhegde 4y agoI tried to see how expensive this site is in terms of carbon footprint. The website timed out citing that the webpage is really slow. As much as I like the concept, it feels just unnecessarily heavy although I do not know enough about making it lightweight while keeping the concept intact.
- nigamanth 4y agoOne can only dream of having a portfolio like this.
- KronisLV 4y agoThis seems like a really well made experience, however perhaps a little bit less so as a usable source of information: both my desktop and laptop have trouble showing it with a smooth framerate, which makes even navigation difficult (on Firefox, if that's relevant), especially on mobile where the site feels like it's running 2-3x slower than it should. That said, watering it down and simplifying it would probably detract from the experience. I wonder what the intersection would look like between awesome and memorable sites that are good for exploration and showcasing one's creativity, like this https://bruno-simon.com/ https://bruno-simon.com/ and boring and forgettable sites that are good for getting information out of in a familiar UX, like this https://stallman.org/ https://stallman.org/ Maybe a toggle between "wow me but melt my CPU" and "bore me, but let me copy some paragraphs and bullet points for my notes about you", much like how we can have toggles for color schemes? Otherwise I have this silly image of an HR person engaging with this interactive experience when all they want to accomplish is fill out a few fields about you in the HR system hah. Of course, a PDF resume should cover most of those details, so it's not like there's anything wrong with being a bit fun on the web, either!