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  • "Nothing else: no lists, tables, links, quotes, images or rules."

    Claudish needs to be cleaned up.

    by darkstar999
  • In the make one by hand section, you probably don't need to tell people %20 is a space. If they type it in naturally, the browser should encode automatically
    by hidelooktropic
  • I did something similar years ago but for live satellite imagery https://earth.wooleys.us. I wanted to show my kids hurricane/typhoon imagery live. Worked great to throw up on a chromecast and let it run.
    by antgiant
  • Completely different architecture, but would be amazing if another device could control what message (or photo, embedded video) is displayed.

    There's a huge industry around digital signage and I've always felt it could be replaced with a simple Chromium kiosk + auto-refreshed webpage content. There's really no need for expensive HDMI connections or custom video streams when we already have browsers.

    by KingMachiavelli
  • Hook it up to voice control so I can put an iPad in the back window of the car and tell other drivers… things.
    by ceejayoz
  • Who remembers https://bigassmessage.com/
    by paulsmith
  • https://bigwords.page/#smol!%20!%20!%20!%20!%20!%20!%20!%20!...!

    You seem to have the same bug I had when I first implemented https://screaming.saej.in/

    In Firefox, scrollWidth includes spaces that extend into the margin, so it's possible for text to fit perfectly on the screen, but scrollWidth > clientWidth. Fix here https://saej.in/posts/screaming/

    by pvillano
  • I had the idea for BIGWORDS.PAGE when I wanted to display a message on a tablet that I had remote management control over, but no physical access. Configuring it to be a kiosk browser is easy, but how do I get the browser to show my message? So I made the URL be the message.

    It uses a URL fragment to configure the message. Browsers don't send URL fragments to the server, so I never see your message. There's no backend, and no storage.

    All parameters are documented, so generating a message link is easy. There's also a built-in editor to make it extra easy.

    https://bigwords.page/#Hello,%20HN!&bg=ff6600&fg=000000&font...

    There are a few extra features like slides, animations, and countdowns and timers. QR codes too. Not too fancy, but hopefully enough to be useful.

    I know the uses for this are pretty niche. But it may be one of those things that you keep as a nugget in your brain, a tool in your back pocket. Not something you use often, but when you do it makes things just a little bit easier.

    It's open source (MIT), and self-hostable if that's your thing.

    Let me know what you think.

    by SpeakingOfBrad

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