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New comment by kickscondor in "The Day the Good Internet Died"

kickscondor — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 03:44:14 +0000

New comment by kickscondor in "Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies"

kickscondor — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:13:59 +0000

See the Harrison Ford vid linked at the end of the original article. Billy Dee Williams also gets inserted. There’s no doubt that this technique will defeat CGI Youngface.

New comment by kickscondor in "For developers, Safari is crap and outdated"

kickscondor — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 04:37:19 +0000

This has been my experience over the past several years as well. My particular issues have been with the Canvas element and with SVG support (which is insanely buggy - even the dev tools are bugged) but there are also occasional layout issues.

I definitely feel like comparisons to IE are apt.

New comment by kickscondor in "Back to the Future with RSS"

kickscondor — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 00:05:39 +0000

I don’t enjoy ActivityPub related specs - they give me SOAP vibes - and I’ve struggled with interoperability. (Tried to make my blog act kind of like a Mastodon instance and the learning curve was just way too out there. I’m happy with feeds.)

New comment by kickscondor in "Back to the Future with RSS"

kickscondor — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 23:16:19 +0000

If you're interested in furthering RSS (and Atom, JSON Feed) - one way to help this along is to continue extending it to bring it modern. For instance, I've documented an extension for adding temporary 'status' to the feed - useful for pinned posts or broadcasting that a livestream is beginning.

https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/wiki/RSS-Atom-Exten...

It feels like there is still a lot of room to extend these formats - part of the advantage to them is how easily they can be extended. The media enclosure extension is the reason they've been so useful for podcast subscriptions.

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:27:11 +0000

You can do this! If you look at the source code for the landing page, there is a way to embed a post and specify a size for it as well.

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 23:09:00 +0000

I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know how to relate to people who are very serious about the topic at hand. I'm sorry - you asked the question earnestly and I disappointed.

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:25:43 +0000

Not at all - we’re just a team of two though and have had to cut corners to get to this point.

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:23:30 +0000

Absolutely agree with you as well. I do think it’s “dangerous” - or perhaps it’s better to just call it a “tradeoff” - because you give people greater power over the design of the site. But obviously a tradeoff we’re all willing to make.

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:18:13 +0000

Wow - this is a very encouraging post. Thank you! If you happen to still be reading - what was the site builder you worked on? Have you written anywhere about your experience on that project?

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:58:51 +0000

Just a correction - my previous employer was Grape Nuts Marketing. They did a retrospective on me earlier this year: https://web.archive.org/web/20210201092129/https://kickscond...

I know this just makes things worse. But at least it could help be a decisive final blow to my reputation that you all are looking for?

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:32:54 +0000

We are six levels deep in an HN thread. It’s not looking good.

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:09:54 +0000

Multiverse.plus is a personal project (of glitchyowl and mine.) And I am a personal project of Facebook Labs.

Or possibly the CIA? I get email from two agents who claim to be my handlers and to "come home already". But I don't really know whose story to believe. Can't just look in the mirror to find out.

Ok wow - I am rubbing myself the right direction now!

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:32:13 +0000

Oh shoot - I missed this comment. There is a sign-up form on the home page: https://multiverse.plus/ Just under the image of the PC.

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:16:22 +0000

> Nostalgia is the antagonist of new voices, not the friend.

There are negatives to nostalgia - but this isn't necessarily one of them. I would use vaporwave as a counterpoint. (Or any resurgence of a genre.) The nostalgic element is the familiar part; the artist might then be unfamiliar. I personally discover new artists all the time in these nostalgic genres.

Not arguing against your general points about writing vs fashion. (And you make a lot of fun points!) But I don't think a rebirth of hypertext styling is dead in the water. Podcasts were originally seen as just the rebirth of AM radio. And they were - but it turned out to be time for that - and enough innovation transpired that they stuck.

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 19:58:35 +0000

Yes it's true that I was invented by Facebook and that my website was shutdown by Disney (and then the FBI - as the other commenter points out - for the Disney shutdown turned out to have been a hoax.)

This is all terrible and I hate my origin story - I agree completely. I understand if you need to bow out on this one. I rub myself the wrong way a lot of the time.

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 16:02:35 +0000

"Disaster" is also hyperbole.

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:49:20 +0000

Livestream if you want to peek in on Multiverse.plus or ask questions: https://www.twitch.tv/kickscondor/

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:38:13 +0000

Well it's dangerous to give people the tools to design themselves - it's a rare skill and very difficult to blend it all together into a cohesive community! I think many startups of the 2010s saw Myspace design as a disaster.

We're hoping that by having some default color palettes and some common patterns and fonts - as well as limits to paddings, margins and border sizes - that it helps people stay in the ballpark of what a Multiverse post looks like. (Kind of like how you can spot something made with LEGOs from a distance.)

But whatever - creating ugly things should be part of the world. Looking forward to the future of 'ugly', 'bad', 'shoddy' design on the Internet. <3

New comment by kickscondor in "Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?"

kickscondor — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:26:40 +0000

I can totally see this perspective, lokl! We are very uncertain that we're achieving our goals. I think I agree with you that Multiverse doesn't go too far off from Tumblr - and that's deliberate - we wanted to see if we could offer a stepping stone. Start at a familiar place but move in a different direction.

I'd be interested to hear more about achieving expressiveness in a "deep sense" - don't know if you mean offering more hypertext features - something more in the way of Roam or Notion. For us, aesthetics are rather deep - and offering design tools for fleshing out posts and designing frames seemed like something that had gone neglected. I think the posts that are being published so far show a lot of promise. Perhaps we can offer further stepping stones from here, to build more elaborate hypertext.

Really great question - this is exactly what we talk about between each other as well. Thank you for all of the feedback as well. Very much appreciated.