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Just Do Things

19 points by erhuve 4mo ago

sixtyj 4mo ago
> We're on a mission to give everyone a permanent home on the internet: a Personal Cloud. There is some confusion btw: Zo.space, zo.computer, zocomputer.com … Idea to give a cloud to everyone with AI is good, and there is a lot of people who know nothing about clouds/ai, but these aren’t focus group of site. Copy (text) is too technical imho.
- erhuve 4mo ago
  appreciate the feedback! i'm inclined to agree with the direction and think about this a lot too
1317 4mo ago
get rid of those lines splitting up the text, it just makes it confusing to read "It's crazy to think it feels like four. I first year about"... what? oh, no it's meant to be It's crazy to think I've spent a whole year at Zo Computer now- it feels like four. I had the idea to write a blog post reflecting on my Like come on, books and magazines and etc are laid out the way they are for a reason
- erhuve 4mo ago
  i do apologize for that- the lines are randomly generated on every page load, inspired by kintsugi. it's a sacrifice i make because i just kinda like it :p
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  - 1bpp 4mo ago
    I think whatever Javascript you made your AI write to do that is causing scrolling to be incredibly laggy on a phone and warm my entire device; Pixel 7a in Firefox. edit: it's something you (Claude) are doing with text rendering. Zooming in on any text makes it exponentially worse. It's obvious when you don't give a shit about design. It's extremely obvious when you lie about making something that a machine output when you don't give a shit about design yourself. Everybody sees this.
  - saulpw 4mo ago
    Sorry but this is one of those instances where you have to kill your darling. You can't sacrifice readability for textual content.
  - evanpurkhiser 4mo ago
    I thought it was really cool! It’s your personal website so you do you dude :)
    - erhuve 4mo ago
      thank you!
  - 1317 4mo ago
    they could be quite nice if they were just in the background, behind the text
  - alwa 4mo ago
    I like that you like it, and that you did it because you like it. That’s reason enough. I’m not sure what’s bringing out all the meanness in the sibling comments here, but I hope you’re able to tune them out. For what it’s worth I think their criticism is misplaced. I don’t like that people are punishing you for taking creative and technical risks in public. Doing “the right way” for its own sake, especially in your personal space, is the path to mediocrity—especially at your age and stage (as indicated on your about page). Please keep trying what speaks to you. You’ll get truer to your vision and stronger at executing on it with every effort you make. And personally, I find the aesthetic proposition provocative, I feel like there’s something meaningful down the path you’re thinking. Illegitimi non carborundum!
    - erhuve 4mo ago
      thank you so much for the kind words and encouragement! i think they are valid points of view to be fair, and there are many coexisting
  - Cayde-6 4mo ago
    What if you didn't break the sentences up, but instead turned individual letters gold where they majorly intersect with the gold cracks? Maybe a darker gold to preserve some contrast and keep them readable against the lighter cracks.
    - erhuve 4mo ago
      this is a pretty neat idea i might try, thanks!
_carbyau_ 4mo ago
"Just Do Things" is a way to get started on something. It is not an endpoint for all things. Some things require attention to detail between the beginning and the end.
eabnelson 4mo ago
building a way to enable others to also just do things is a full circle moment
scotty79 4mo ago
If anyone is interested in the text that flows around the cracks. Cracks are painted on canvas underneath and the text is laid out in spans with help of pretext javascript library. I asked gpt-5.5 on sub running via pilot-proxy in a custom agent harness that I strapped to my custom web browser built with tauri and system webview.
hankbond 4mo ago
Re the text rendering, isn't something like pretext supposed to handle this efficiently? https://pretextjs.dev/pretext-demo/showcase-mesmerizing-animation https://pretextjs.dev/pretext-demo/showcase-mesmerizing-anim... https://github.com/chenglou/pretext https://github.com/chenglou/pretext

19 points by erhuve 4mo ago

> We're on a mission to give everyone a permanent home on the internet: a Personal Cloud. There is some confusion btw: Zo.space, zo.computer, zocomputer.com … Idea to give a cloud to everyone with AI is good, and there is a lot of people who know nothing about clouds/ai, but these aren’t focus group of site. Copy (text) is too technical imho.

erhuve 4mo ago
appreciate the feedback! i'm inclined to agree with the direction and think about this a lot too

1317 4mo ago

get rid of those lines splitting up the text, it just makes it confusing to read "It's crazy to think it feels like four. I first year about"... what? oh, no it's meant to be It's crazy to think I've spent a whole year at Zo Computer now- it feels like four. I had the idea to write a blog post reflecting on my Like come on, books and magazines and etc are laid out the way they are for a reason

erhuve 4mo ago
i do apologize for that- the lines are randomly generated on every page load, inspired by kintsugi. it's a sacrifice i make because i just kinda like it :p
- deleted 4mo ago
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- 1bpp 4mo ago
  I think whatever Javascript you made your AI write to do that is causing scrolling to be incredibly laggy on a phone and warm my entire device; Pixel 7a in Firefox. edit: it's something you (Claude) are doing with text rendering. Zooming in on any text makes it exponentially worse. It's obvious when you don't give a shit about design. It's extremely obvious when you lie about making something that a machine output when you don't give a shit about design yourself. Everybody sees this.
- saulpw 4mo ago
  Sorry but this is one of those instances where you have to kill your darling. You can't sacrifice readability for textual content.
- evanpurkhiser 4mo ago
  I thought it was really cool! It’s your personal website so you do you dude :)
  - erhuve 4mo ago
    thank you!
- 1317 4mo ago
  they could be quite nice if they were just in the background, behind the text
- alwa 4mo ago
  I like that you like it, and that you did it because you like it. That’s reason enough. I’m not sure what’s bringing out all the meanness in the sibling comments here, but I hope you’re able to tune them out. For what it’s worth I think their criticism is misplaced. I don’t like that people are punishing you for taking creative and technical risks in public. Doing “the right way” for its own sake, especially in your personal space, is the path to mediocrity—especially at your age and stage (as indicated on your about page). Please keep trying what speaks to you. You’ll get truer to your vision and stronger at executing on it with every effort you make. And personally, I find the aesthetic proposition provocative, I feel like there’s something meaningful down the path you’re thinking. Illegitimi non carborundum!
  - erhuve 4mo ago
    thank you so much for the kind words and encouragement! i think they are valid points of view to be fair, and there are many coexisting
- Cayde-6 4mo ago
  What if you didn't break the sentences up, but instead turned individual letters gold where they majorly intersect with the gold cracks? Maybe a darker gold to preserve some contrast and keep them readable against the lighter cracks.
  - erhuve 4mo ago
    this is a pretty neat idea i might try, thanks!

_carbyau_ 4mo ago

"Just Do Things" is a way to get started on something. It is not an endpoint for all things. Some things require attention to detail between the beginning and the end.

eabnelson 4mo ago

building a way to enable others to also just do things is a full circle moment

scotty79 4mo ago

If anyone is interested in the text that flows around the cracks. Cracks are painted on canvas underneath and the text is laid out in spans with help of pretext javascript library. I asked gpt-5.5 on sub running via pilot-proxy in a custom agent harness that I strapped to my custom web browser built with tauri and system webview.

hankbond 4mo ago

Re the text rendering, isn't something like pretext supposed to handle this efficiently? https://pretextjs.dev/pretext-demo/showcase-mesmerizing-animation https://pretextjs.dev/pretext-demo/showcase-mesmerizing-anim... https://github.com/chenglou/pretext https://github.com/chenglou/pretext