Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)

54 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by chilipepperhott
(ednamode.xyz)

14 Comments

lxe

8 hours ago

This is cool but was hard to read because I think it lacks some context... so "one of my friends" made a site where anyone could toggle a checkbox on a large canvas of checkboxes?

And you (author?) set up a script to automatically toggle a bunch of them at a at a time to anime a short video of Jake Gyllenhaal?

Was this done via rendering the site and toggling appropriate coordinates, or through an endpoint/API?

ednaordinary

7 hours ago

author here! I mostly assumed the reader had some context for this blog around omcb since it had gone viral and I posted it in circles already familiar, but looking back that wasn't a great decision. I'll likely revise this blog soon as there's a few other things I thought I didn't explain well. thanks for your feedback!

retsibsi

10 hours ago

Sorry to go meta, but this is the first site I've visited that actively fights back when I try to zoom out (or in, but the text is already very big by default)! I'm wondering if it's deliberate (why??) or a side effect of something else.

banana_giraffe

9 hours ago

The site uses "font-size: calc(1.5vw + 1.5vh);" or some variant, for most of the sizes, which has the effect to lock the size for everything to the size of the viewport, regardless of zoom.

peeters

8 hours ago

Yeah that's a very bad idea.

ednaordinary

7 hours ago

hi! This is mostly due to my opinions around scaling but I didn't realize it impacted zoom so much, I'm not primarily a web dev. I'll change this to conform soon.

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6 hours ago

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user

12 hours ago

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