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Ok, this is tangential, but how is it that one of the founders of Netscape/Mozilla has a website that is so painful to look at? Flourescent green on black.. my

Ok, this is tangential, but how is it that one of the founders of Netscape/Mozilla has a website that is so painful to look at? Flourescent green on black.. my eyes!

jleader 13y ago
Browse around his blog some more, I guarantee you'll find images far more painful than mere green text on black! That said, his recent "SOMA Nature Walk" series would appeal to people into big engineering.
sneak 13y ago
You must be new here. http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
- dredmorbius 13y ago
  I'm not new here. That, however, is taking nostalgia far beyond any sense of probity. It definitely ain't what it used to be.
  - sneak 13y ago
    tlb of yc fame, turns out, is the guy who wrote the analog-tv-artifact-simulation code in jwz's xscreensaver: https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/hacks/analogtv.c https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/hacks/analo... I have little doubt that all of jwz.org text rendering will be fully analogue-simulated once the monstrosity that is the supermajority of the installed base of web browsers supports such folly.
    - dredmorbius 13y ago
      I'm still trying to pry my jaw off the floor. Really, it's a thing of beauty. A sick, sadistic, twisted, nostalgic, mental beauty, but beauty all the same. And yes, I'm familiar with the xanalogtv screensaver. Among my faves.
- gnu8 13y ago
  $10 for a gimmick program that will get used once?
  - jgeorge 13y ago
    I use Cathode as my regular terminal. What are you trying to say? :-)
  - sneak 13y ago
    $10 to tell the person who made it that we approve of the choices he's made in his life. I bought it because it simply existing brings me joy. It has the best you-haven't-paid-yet nagware implementation ever conceived by man. I never even triggered it (I bought it instantly) and it gives me joy that it exists.

Ok, this is tangential, but how is it that one of the founders of Netscape/Mozilla has a website that is so painful to look at? Flourescent green on black.. my eyes!

jleader 13y ago

Browse around his blog some more, I guarantee you'll find images far more painful than mere green text on black! That said, his recent "SOMA Nature Walk" series would appeal to people into big engineering.

sneak 13y ago

You must be new here. http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/

dredmorbius 13y ago
I'm not new here. That, however, is taking nostalgia far beyond any sense of probity. It definitely ain't what it used to be.
- sneak 13y ago
  tlb of yc fame, turns out, is the guy who wrote the analog-tv-artifact-simulation code in jwz's xscreensaver: https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/hacks/analogtv.c https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/hacks/analo... I have little doubt that all of jwz.org text rendering will be fully analogue-simulated once the monstrosity that is the supermajority of the installed base of web browsers supports such folly.
  - dredmorbius 13y ago
    I'm still trying to pry my jaw off the floor. Really, it's a thing of beauty. A sick, sadistic, twisted, nostalgic, mental beauty, but beauty all the same. And yes, I'm familiar with the xanalogtv screensaver. Among my faves.
gnu8 13y ago
$10 for a gimmick program that will get used once?
- jgeorge 13y ago
  I use Cathode as my regular terminal. What are you trying to say? :-)
- sneak 13y ago
  $10 to tell the person who made it that we approve of the choices he's made in his life. I bought it because it simply existing brings me joy. It has the best you-haven't-paid-yet nagware implementation ever conceived by man. I never even triggered it (I bought it instantly) and it gives me joy that it exists.