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Art.sy Open Source

82 points by zende 14y ago

wheaties 14y ago
I like that heroku-bartender. I'll have to use it.
- dblock 14y ago
  We no longer use it, btw. Just stick to Jenkins :)
rmangi 14y ago
That's actually a lot of stuff coming from not a very large company. Nice to see.
- sync 14y ago
  I don't know -- could be a sign of NIH syndrome.
level09 14y ago
Nice ! though I dont think using a Syrian tld would be a wise idea at the moment.
jrnkntl 14y ago
Trying to check out Art.sy I don't think this is supposed to render like it does: http://d.pr/i/C7or http://d.pr/i/C7or Great list of open source projects nonetheless; actually have a use for the fillwidth plugin right now.
- dblock 14y ago
  It's fixed. Was a data migration fluke in the middle of a production deploy. Also, that was worth it - you can now signup without requesting an invite.
- zende 14y ago
  > actually have a use for the fillwidth plugin right now. That was the main project that caught my eye as well.
  - danso 14y ago
    This is slick. isotope.jquery is great for square and portrait images, but there doesn't seem to be many plugins to handle a more horizontally-based portfolio...I've tried a few times to implement something like this and it always ended up way more convoluted than it seemed it should...Looking at the source code, it's not a non-trival number of lines, so I'm glad it wasn't just me completely missing a super-simple solution.
    - zende 14y ago
      It also handles resizing the window pretty well. Give it a shot on http://art.sy/artist/ansel-adams http://art.sy/artist/ansel-adams
ya3r 14y ago
Why their opensource projects are spread over many github account? Why not organize them on their own organization account at github http://github.com/artsy/ http://github.com/artsy/? When I want to check if a company is a good one regarding contributing back to opensource, one of the first things I check is their github's organization account.
- dblock 14y ago
  For historical reasons. We never had a policy around putting everything under github/artsy so it just grew organically this way. While I do think that finding open-source projects sponsored by an organization is cool, their evolution and governance is more important. When I put an OSS project out there I commit myself to maintaining it and supporting the community around it, if there's one. It's something you do as individuals more than as a team of people - I certainly will continue doing so for my open-source projects even if I were to work somewhere else.
danso 14y ago
I like the barebones scraper framework: https://github.com/joeyAghion/spidey https://github.com/joeyAghion/spidey But why does Art.sy need one? I assumed they had some kind of hookup with galleries and artists...Artsy doesn't have to scrape bespoke websites, right?
- zende 14y ago
  spidey may not be actually associated/used by Art.sy. It's not on http://artsy.github.com/open-source/ http://artsy.github.com/open-source/
  - orta 14y ago
    Yeah, there's a bunch of projects that haven't been added to the open source page. This one indeed is one of ours though.
- dblock 14y ago
  Correct. We don't do any scraping of websites, the works are fully licensed from their rights owners. This part is a huge part of what we do in terms of time and resources.
danso 14y ago
The link to the "vertebrae" repo is 404ing https://github.com/craigspaeth/vertebrae https://github.com/craigspaeth/vertebrae
- craigspaeth 14y ago
  Yeah sorry about that. I removed Vertebrae and Sentry because they were over-engineered and weren't that useful. Vertebrae did some things to help with relations and identity maps in Backbone but there are already better solutions out there now. e.g. https://github.com/PaulUithol/Backbone-relational https://github.com/PaulUithol/Backbone-relational https://supportbee.com/devblog/2011/11/25/identity-map-for- https://supportbee.com/devblog/2011/11/25/identity-map-for- backbone-js-models/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3276990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3276990 (Discussion on jashkenas pattern for a solution to identity maps) https://gist.github.com/3057320 https://gist.github.com/3057320
bobinator30 14y ago
impressive work for a small company!
tucosan 14y ago
I am sorry if I am too direct here, but the font color is simply painful to look at. Why did you actually decide to style your copy text in such a distracting color?
- dblock 14y ago
  You mean the purple? It's our "official" artsy purple. If a lot of people were to say it's hard to read we'd change it.

Art.sy Open Source

82 points by zende 14y ago

wheaties 14y ago

I like that heroku-bartender. I'll have to use it.

dblock 14y ago
We no longer use it, btw. Just stick to Jenkins :)

rmangi 14y ago

That's actually a lot of stuff coming from not a very large company. Nice to see.

sync 14y ago
I don't know -- could be a sign of NIH syndrome.

level09 14y ago

Nice ! though I dont think using a Syrian tld would be a wise idea at the moment.

jrnkntl 14y ago

Trying to check out Art.sy I don't think this is supposed to render like it does: http://d.pr/i/C7or http://d.pr/i/C7or Great list of open source projects nonetheless; actually have a use for the fillwidth plugin right now.

dblock 14y ago
It's fixed. Was a data migration fluke in the middle of a production deploy. Also, that was worth it - you can now signup without requesting an invite.
zende 14y ago
> actually have a use for the fillwidth plugin right now. That was the main project that caught my eye as well.
- danso 14y ago
  This is slick. isotope.jquery is great for square and portrait images, but there doesn't seem to be many plugins to handle a more horizontally-based portfolio...I've tried a few times to implement something like this and it always ended up way more convoluted than it seemed it should...Looking at the source code, it's not a non-trival number of lines, so I'm glad it wasn't just me completely missing a super-simple solution.
  - zende 14y ago
    It also handles resizing the window pretty well. Give it a shot on http://art.sy/artist/ansel-adams http://art.sy/artist/ansel-adams

ya3r 14y ago

Why their opensource projects are spread over many github account? Why not organize them on their own organization account at github http://github.com/artsy/ http://github.com/artsy/? When I want to check if a company is a good one regarding contributing back to opensource, one of the first things I check is their github's organization account.

dblock 14y ago
For historical reasons. We never had a policy around putting everything under github/artsy so it just grew organically this way. While I do think that finding open-source projects sponsored by an organization is cool, their evolution and governance is more important. When I put an OSS project out there I commit myself to maintaining it and supporting the community around it, if there's one. It's something you do as individuals more than as a team of people - I certainly will continue doing so for my open-source projects even if I were to work somewhere else.

danso 14y ago

I like the barebones scraper framework: https://github.com/joeyAghion/spidey https://github.com/joeyAghion/spidey But why does Art.sy need one? I assumed they had some kind of hookup with galleries and artists...Artsy doesn't have to scrape bespoke websites, right?

zende 14y ago
spidey may not be actually associated/used by Art.sy. It's not on http://artsy.github.com/open-source/ http://artsy.github.com/open-source/
- orta 14y ago
  Yeah, there's a bunch of projects that haven't been added to the open source page. This one indeed is one of ours though.
dblock 14y ago
Correct. We don't do any scraping of websites, the works are fully licensed from their rights owners. This part is a huge part of what we do in terms of time and resources.

danso 14y ago

The link to the "vertebrae" repo is 404ing https://github.com/craigspaeth/vertebrae https://github.com/craigspaeth/vertebrae

craigspaeth 14y ago
Yeah sorry about that. I removed Vertebrae and Sentry because they were over-engineered and weren't that useful. Vertebrae did some things to help with relations and identity maps in Backbone but there are already better solutions out there now. e.g. https://github.com/PaulUithol/Backbone-relational https://github.com/PaulUithol/Backbone-relational https://supportbee.com/devblog/2011/11/25/identity-map-for- https://supportbee.com/devblog/2011/11/25/identity-map-for- backbone-js-models/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3276990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3276990 (Discussion on jashkenas pattern for a solution to identity maps) https://gist.github.com/3057320 https://gist.github.com/3057320

bobinator30 14y ago

impressive work for a small company!

tucosan 14y ago

I am sorry if I am too direct here, but the font color is simply painful to look at. Why did you actually decide to style your copy text in such a distracting color?

dblock 14y ago
You mean the purple? It's our "official" artsy purple. If a lot of people were to say it's hard to read we'd change it.