Many years ago the agency I worked for was tasked with delivering a new website for a major UK brand. The hipster London marketing agency we had to work alongside pushed so many garish ideas that I ended up creating a jQuery plugin called "disco mode". It set a timer and on every tick would select a random element on the page and apply a random effect. Slowly the UI would disintegrate into a maddening, incoherent mess of clashing colours and animations, and then there was also the plugin I mentioned.
Google safebrowsing blocked it, so it does not work in Firefox anymore (and any other browser); after ignoring the warning, it's clear that there are ample warnings on the website itself about this being a parody, not to enter sensitive information, etc. I reported it as "not deceptive".
This reminds me of the Katamari Hack back in the day when bookmarklets were more popular. Surprised that it's still fully functional including the music considering it was released in 2011!
[1]: http://kathack.com/
Chrome blocking this site, marked as "Dangerous site".
Lol - the fact that chrome and safari both mark this site as "Dangerous" is even better. When HN is destructing under fire and insects, chrome is showing a big red "Dangerous" in the address bar. Hilarious
Wow those bugs are really something
Are these available as an npm package? Would make for a great April Fools prank
Its so effective that after clicking through the warning I get nothing but a black screen on MacOS Safari and Chrome, and the same on Safari on iPhone.
Back in the 90s/early-2000s there were browser add-ons where people could collaboratively do this as an overlay to any website. Kind of like stumbleupon 10 years early but you just shot/exploded/disintegrated, etc the html elements of the site and typed comments to each other.
Reminds me of xroach back in the day. First time I moved a window and they ran around I nearly plotzed.
I actually kinda like HN in comic sans with bugs crawling around the screen. It’s cute.
Every AI project if the breaks aren't pumped on the regular. Creator's inspiration?
Hahaha. :D
I remember in the 90's-00's there was Windows desktop software toy that did similar to this with options for missiles, fire, etc.
Examples:
Stress Reducers (2000)
Monty Python's Looney Bin (1998) (I could be wrong)
Dilbert's Desktop Games (1997)
This is the most fun I've had on the internet in a long time.
I thought vibe coding tools did this already
My personal website breaks this each time (jasoneckert.github.io), which is both a letdown and a pleasant surprise.
I wanted to show this to a kid, but it sounds too vulgar.
funny, when I loaded Ticketmaster, nothing happened...
Doesn't work at Whitehouse.gov for some reason...
This is like a lightweight version of netdisaster.com
The bugs remind me of "A Scanner Darkly"
I guess it’s not working anymore? I had an error
Doesn't work in firefox, nor in Safari!
I like that they handle the recursive case.
how many passwords did you collect so far?
The fire design is really good.
Doesn't work on itself by the way
Completely breaks on opennet.ru
1. Breaks text
2. Cannot fuck up anything
Not working for my site, which deployed Anubis.
I wish fewer sites would resort to 4 letter words in their titles to grab attention. These days, a title like this makes me assume the product itself is not interesting enough for me to look at.