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Strange.website
- PlunderBunny 9mo agoAlso check out this guy's postings on Bluesky [0] - some comedy gold there: "my cathedral-seeing eyes finally came in the mail, really excited to try these puppies out. oh holy shit" 0. https://bsky.app/profile/strange.website https://bsky.app/profile/strange.website
- patcon 9mo agoThis is definitely inspired by the print book "house of leaves", a strange work of ergodic fiction: The subset box layouts with backward text, the coloring of a single word a bright color throughout ("house" and "Minotaur" in HoL) It's a great book :)
- yallpendantools 9mo agoColophon: > this site is built with Eleventy and Sass, and uses ~no JavaScript~ a very small amount of JavaScript for the House of Leaves post. So, HoL confirmed.
- lagniappe 9mo agoZampano was here
- omgmajk 9mo agoI laughed out loud when I saw computers in blue text, always fun to see a HoL reference.
- Freebytes 9mo agoThis reminds me of the way the Internet was in the past. And the random sites to which this site links. (If you have not seen Neocities, it is another similar place which is the predecessor of Geocities before Yahoo! bought it and killed it.)
- AndrewStephens 9mo agoThe world needs more idiosyncratic and opinionated hand crafted websites like this.
- GaryBluto 9mo agoI was just thinking to myself about how much the internet was lacking in self-important esoteric gibberish. I am unsurprised to see it came from the same person as "A Website to Destroy All Websites". I am especially befuddled by all the comments stating "This is how the web used to be!"; no it wasn't, and I can only imagine those who think so collate their view of web history purely through what others say on Mastodon and Twitter (who in turn probably constructed their view of the time from the twelfth or so chinese whisper down the line of various blogs and manifestos).
- akoboldfrying 9mo agoAgree. It reads like something an LLM would generate in response to the prompt "Edgy dystopian gloom about the state of the modern web" if you kept replying "Edgier!" until it made everything lowercase.
- TeMPOraL 9mo agoNah, LLMs do a better job. This is clearly human.
- vintagedave 9mo agoI feel this is a slightly cruel comment. It’s a website of creativity, very well executed. Also, if you read the text, it is right. Some of the presentation (such as the inverted / mirrored square) is pure art. In an admirable sense: art. While I get the commentary — that bit reminded me of House of Leaves which has been criticized for the same thing — there’s a real human behind this, who obviously cares deeply about the issues they’re communicating about (and has the skill to do so quite incredibly.) Sometimes I wonder, in the ease of critique, what it’s like for the anonymous person on the other end, and I don’t feel good here. I feel like your comment doesn’t quite account for the humanity of someone else, nor of someone doing something with passion.
- boca_honey 9mo ago>someone doing something with passion. I'd agree if the site covered some history, shared recipes, or even just ranted about the author's favorite movies. But this guy is just trash-talking the entire internet. "the website has changed. it twists facts to fiction, reality to rubbish, gold into dirt." ... and so on. If you're going to be cruel, you might get some cruel feedback.
- only-one1701 9mo agoI thought that "A Website to Destroy All Websites" as a bit precious but like this for the "I'm feeling lucky" logic alone. The author is right. The internet was good and now, I'm sorry to say, sucks. I'm worried something's gone for good.
- adventured 9mo agoThe Internet is fantastic. The Web sucks. On the Internet: any movie I want to watch; any song I want to listen to; an endless parade of games to play via Steam et al.; about a zillion games I can play online with friends; numerous app store options, and an entire other world of smartphone games I can play alone or with friends; inexpensive LLMs I can do almost anything I want to with, wherever my imagination takes me; porn, a lot of porn; infinite social media; infinite videos on youtube; any skill I want to learn, there is - what might as well be - unlimited material on how to do it; any book I want to read; communications, email, instant messaging, tele-whatever; just about any kind of get-x-done software I could ask for, and if it doesn't exist an LLM will create it for me tonight; shopping, whatever you want to buy, you can shop for it, research it, look at it; want to start an LLC? Internet. Want to file a trademark? Internet. Want a passport? Internet. Book a flight/hotel/B&B/car rental? Internet. Plot a holiday? Internet. Have a hobby? Communities on one platform or another. And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on.
- urban_alien 9mo agoCare to elaborate on where you're drawing the line between The Internet and The Web? Your comment doesn't make it clear.
- dmbche 9mo agoAt a glance : the internet is the scaffolding/structure, the Web is what people are doing in it. The structure allows for great things. People suck. Hell is other people and all that.
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- regenschutz 9mo agoThis is why we all should just use hieroglyphs instead. You don't have to worry about where to put icons when everything is an icon! /s, if it wasn't obvious...
- nice_byte 9mo agoyou might also like: myhouse.wad
- catskull 9mo agoFor something a bit more “substantive” (or perhaps earnest) but still reminiscent of the same aesthetic this evokes, I recommend spending a few minutes poking around big gulp supreme: https://biggulpsupreme.neocities.org/ https://biggulpsupreme.neocities.org/
- tolerance 9mo agoThe book that this website is inspired by...its plot seems to echo my impression of what these “Old/small web elegies” are becoming. A man stumbles upon the idea of a thing that itself is borne off the account of someone else that never actually came to pass. Madness ensues. And madness perhaps precedes the event. ‘Weird and eerie’.
- con 9mo agoI just made a pretty strange one myself: https://currentcondition.tv https://currentcondition.tv I've added quite a few Easter eggs and a few old school games. Let me know what you think? Blue dots are locations of previous visitors.. it all works well on desktop, the games need a bit more love to work well on mobile.
- dekken_ 9mo agoyer a wizard consti
- noduerme 9mo agoIt's cool.
- con 9mo agoAlso just made it open source - https://github.com/consti/currentcondition https://github.com/consti/currentcondition
- tarcon 9mo agoThe 5000 loc index.html doesn't look too bad content wise, but I question if it's helpful to humans in its shape. I guess a proper project structure is just a prompt away though.
- con 9mo agoYup. I built a few more complex apps with more structure, like https://rauschstoff.com https://rauschstoff.com - fully vibe coded on the same platform. It has honestly been amazing the last few days :)
- Barathkanna 9mo agoLove the UI!!
- romperstomper 9mo agoIt is cool but remember that not all the world uses Fahrenheit for temperature :)
- evanjrowley 9mo agoThat was the most time I've spent on any website linked here.
- amiantos 9mo agocool but everyone should just read house of leaves themselves
- masswerk 9mo agoCurious detail: the button/widget icons of the browser chrome are composed of multi-layered box-shadows (i.e. one box-shadow definition per pixel or line, concatenated to a sting) of a `:before` pseudo element. (I don't think that I've seen anything alike before.) Meaning: also no images.
- manuelmoreale 9mo agoYou want to check this one out then https://a.singlediv.com/ https://a.singlediv.com/
- noduerme 9mo agoAm I the only one who sees this as a referential homage to Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities"?
- beepbooptheory 9mo agoWow Yeah I definitely see that a lot in its larger structure. The House of Leaves stuff is kinda all on its sleeve, but the kind of serial structure of it feels so much like Invisible Cities now that you say this.
- pekim 9mo agoAs soon as I saw the scrolling "made by henry (from online)." at the bottom I thought "marquee" tag. Sure enough when I inspected the DOM it does use one.
- twosdai 9mo agoMarquee is the greatest html tag of all.
- xtiansimon 9mo agoIf the world of vice coding brought us more strange websites, it’s 1996 all over again. Let the games begin!
- Gormo 9mo ago"Vice coding" is an interesting Freudian slip.