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- I do really like this! I had never even heard of 88x31 buttons yet when presented with a few of them I got instant nostalgia for the “old web” of my youth.
I think it’s my age speaking again, but I would have preferred Arial for this, as it’s much more legible to me than the final bitmap font he chose. He could have simply sped up the animation to account for only fitting 11 words per page and kept the whole thing in a reasonable time (if 19 hours is reasonable to you).
- Get some video of it:
ffmpeg -i book.gif book.mpvby anthk - What a glorious combination of interesting, quick and absolutely useless. It's beautiful.
- This is a really great article! It show some simple tools calls and is still very small (no long wall of text to read). Thank you!by sodimel
- Mostly useless but genius, hand-written text and code.
It is so, so refreshing and I love it.
by lubujackson - Very nice article. Refreshing to see one liners and fun projects. And the website’s glamour mode is great, too.
Although, as tradition requests, any example of the useless use of `cat` (UUOC) must be called out. The _much_ more efficient use would of course be
tr '\n' ' ' < input.txt | tr -d '\r' | fold …by Jakob - Reminds me of the classic "P Diddy Calls Bjork" https://www.negrophonic.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/bjork...by unleaded
- I think the title undersells the accomplishment.
He made an animated button gif that scrolls the entire text of Moby Dick.
4.2 Mb, 19 hours long.
Top quality useless proof of concept. 10/10.