Dear ~club:
I don't have any sense of how much you all participated in last week's workshop, since I couldn't think of a neat little command to run to scan /home/ for wikis. As far as I can tell, there wasn't much interest, so perhaps I'll try to a different sort of prompt this week.
Do you remember MySpace? Me neither. I happen to be young enough to have more or less missed the rise of MySpace and instead been tempted by somewhat early Facebook circa 2007. (That's another story.)
Based on echos in preserved popular culture from the period and other forms of archaeology, I have concluded that there was once a way for MySpace users to define an in-group on their page known as the Top 8. Apparently, the decisions surrounding who was in a person's Top 8 and who wasn't were serious ones with long-lasting social consequences, at least for some. Of course, this is a ridiculous idea to us evolved humans of the almost 2020s. We would never be dragged down into arguments with strangers on the Internet over essentially meaningless tribal drivel, right? ...right?
~club, your task this week is to recreate MySpace's Top 8 somewhere on your own set of pages. Just one catch: no people. To try to avoid recreating the apparent angst that comes with publicly defining in-groups and out-groups, let's pick instead from the vast selection of topics, languages (natural and artificial), technologies, forms and genres of music, and other inanimate stuff of interest. This way, we might avoid the toxicity and end up sharing our interests with each other instead.
Have fun, ~club, and I'm sorry this one was a little late.
Bradley
Clarifying is this like just making a list of top 8 pages of interests? Sorry to be that guy to ask. But wasn't 100% sure on the task.
Thanks again for your efforts :)
~deepend
On 12/18/19 5:34 AM, Bradley Gannon wrote:
Dear ~club:
I don't have any sense of how much you all participated in last week's workshop, since I couldn't think of a neat little command to run to scan /home/ for wikis. As far as I can tell, there wasn't much interest, so perhaps I'll try to a different sort of prompt this week.
Do you remember MySpace? Me neither. I happen to be young enough to have more or less missed the rise of MySpace and instead been tempted by somewhat early Facebook circa 2007. (That's another story.)
Based on echos in preserved popular culture from the period and other forms of archaeology, I have concluded that there was once a way for MySpace users to define an in-group on their page known as the Top 8. Apparently, the decisions surrounding who was in a person's Top 8 and who wasn't were serious ones with long-lasting social consequences, at least for some. Of course, this is a ridiculous idea to us evolved humans of the almost 2020s. We would never be dragged down into arguments with strangers on the Internet over essentially meaningless tribal drivel, right? ...right?
~club, your task this week is to recreate MySpace's Top 8 somewhere on your own set of pages. Just one catch: no people. To try to avoid recreating the apparent angst that comes with publicly defining in-groups and out-groups, let's pick instead from the vast selection of topics, languages (natural and artificial), technologies, forms and genres of music, and other inanimate stuff of interest. This way, we might avoid the toxicity and end up sharing our interests with each other instead.
Have fun, ~club, and I'm sorry this one was a little late.
Bradley
Yes, that's pretty much the idea. I'm off to make mine now, as a matter of fact. I finally have a little time on account of the holiday.
Sorry for the late reply,
Bradley
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, deepend wrote:
Clarifying is this like just making a list of top 8 pages of interests? Sorry to be that guy to ask. But wasn't 100% sure on the task.
Thanks again for your efforts :)
~ deepend
On 12/18/19 5:34 AM, Bradley Gannon wrote:
Dear ~club:
I don't have any sense of how much you all participated in last week's workshop, since I couldn't think of a neat little command to run to scan /home/ for wikis. As far as I can tell, there wasn't much interest, so perhaps I'll try to a different sort of prompt this week.
Do you remember MySpace? Me neither. I happen to be young enough to have more or less missed the rise of MySpace and instead been tempted by somewhat early Facebook circa 2007. (That's another story.)
Based on echos in preserved popular culture from the period and other forms of archaeology, I have concluded that there was once a way for MySpace users to define an in-group on their page known as the Top 8. Apparently, the decisions surrounding who was in a person's Top 8 and who wasn't were serious ones with long-lasting social consequences, at least for some. Of course, this is a ridiculous idea to us evolved humans of the almost 2020s. We would never be dragged down into arguments with strangers on the Internet over essentially meaningless tribal drivel, right? ...right?
~ club, your task this week is to recreate MySpace's Top 8 somewhere on your own set of pages. Just one catch: no people. To try to avoid recreating the apparent angst that comes with publicly defining in-groups and out-groups, let's pick instead from the vast selection of topics, languages (natural and artificial), technologies, forms and genres of music, and other inanimate stuff of interest. This way, we might avoid the toxicity and end up sharing our interests with each other instead.
Have fun, ~club, and I'm sorry this one was a little late.
Bradley
December 24, 2019 10:18 AM, "Bradley Gannon" bradley@tilde.club wrote:
Yes, that's pretty much the idea. I'm off to make mine now, as a matter of fact. I finally have a little time on account of the holiday.
I just made mine: http://tilde.club/~mpnordland/top8.html
Wow, that's a really neat effect. And it looks like you did it with pure CSS? Impressive.
Bradley
On Wed, 25 Dec 2019, mpnordland@tilde.club wrote:
December 24, 2019 10:18 AM, "Bradley Gannon" bradley@tilde.club wrote:
Yes, that's pretty much the idea. I'm off to make mine now, as a matter of fact. I finally have a little time on account of the holiday.
I just made mine: http://tilde.club/~mpnordland/top8.html
Thanks! I wanted to show that while these things are my top eight, there really isn't any difference in rank between them. What better to show that than an unordered list with a constantly changing order? CSS is really powerful and can accomplish a lot of dynamic effects like this one. It can even make things interactive with a few HTML form hacks. Here's a pure CSS image slider I made: https://stream-record.glitch.me/
December 25, 2019 10:24 AM, "Bradley Gannon" bradley@tilde.club wrote:
Wow, that's a really neat effect. And it looks like you did it with pure CSS? Impressive.
Bradley
On Wed, 25 Dec 2019, mpnordland@tilde.club wrote:
December 24, 2019 10:18 AM, "Bradley Gannon" bradley@tilde.club wrote:
Yes, that's pretty much the idea. I'm off to make mine now, as a matter of >> fact. I finally have a little time on account of the holiday.
I just made mine: http://tilde.club/~mpnordland/top8.html
I was puzzled because I couldn't see anything happening! Apparently it works in Chrome and Firefox, but not in Safari (on macOS anyway).
I haven't had any luck googling for the "item-order-cycle" CSS that you use, but maybe there's a -webkit-* variant that would work?
Phil
On 25 Dec 2019, at 15:47, mpnordland@tilde.club wrote:
Thanks! I wanted to show that while these things are my top eight, there really isn't any difference in rank between them. What better to show that than an unordered list with a constantly changing order? CSS is really powerful and can accomplish a lot of dynamic effects like this one. It can even make things interactive with a few HTML form hacks. Here's a pure CSS image slider I made: https://stream-record.glitch.me/
December 25, 2019 10:24 AM, "Bradley Gannon" bradley@tilde.club wrote:
Wow, that's a really neat effect. And it looks like you did it with pure CSS? Impressive.
Bradley
On Wed, 25 Dec 2019, mpnordland@tilde.club wrote:
December 24, 2019 10:18 AM, "Bradley Gannon" bradley@tilde.club wrote:
Yes, that's pretty much the idea. I'm off to make mine now, as a matter of >> fact. I finally have a little time on account of the holiday.
I just made mine: http://tilde.club/~mpnordland/top8.html
Did anyone else do the challenge? Here's mine:
#5 may be pushing the limits, but it's a concert. Not so much a person.
The site is still very unstyled. It's fourth or seventh in line of site priorities right now. Perhaps next year.
Enjoy?!
I made one! http://tilde.club/~schussat/eight.html
I really like those articles on sustainable Christmas trees and skateboarding. :)
Alan
On 20 Dec 2019, at 23:51, Paul Kruczynski wrote:
Did anyone else do the challenge? Here's mine:
#5 may be pushing the limits, but it's a concert. Not so much a person.
The site is still very unstyled. It's fourth or seventh in line of site priorities right now. Perhaps next year.
Enjoy?!
-- Paul Kruczynski / http://kruczyn.ski/
Bradley Gannon wrote on 12/18/19 7:34 AM:
Dear ~club:
I don't have any sense of how much you all participated in last week's workshop, since I couldn't think of a neat little command to run to scan /home/ for wikis. As far as I can tell, there wasn't much interest, so perhaps I'll try to a different sort of prompt this week.
Do you remember MySpace? Me neither. I happen to be young enough to have more or less missed the rise of MySpace and instead been tempted by somewhat early Facebook circa 2007. (That's another story.)
Based on echos in preserved popular culture from the period and other forms of archaeology, I have concluded that there was once a way for MySpace users to define an in-group on their page known as the Top 8. Apparently, the decisions surrounding who was in a person's Top 8 and who wasn't were serious ones with long-lasting social consequences, at least for some. Of course, this is a ridiculous idea to us evolved humans of the almost 2020s. We would never be dragged down into arguments with strangers on the Internet over essentially meaningless tribal drivel, right? ...right?
~club, your task this week is to recreate MySpace's Top 8 somewhere on your own set of pages. Just one catch: no people. To try to avoid recreating the apparent angst that comes with publicly defining in-groups and out-groups, let's pick instead from the vast selection of topics, languages (natural and artificial), technologies, forms and genres of music, and other inanimate stuff of interest. This way, we might avoid the toxicity and end up sharing our interests with each other instead.
Have fun, ~club, and I'm sorry this one was a little late.
Bradley
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