NostraDavid's' programming projects

First I was going to create it in Angular, but then I learned React and wanted it to it in that. But then I figured out how Elm worked and created the actual first version in that - on archive.org you cansee the first version uses elm.js, but I found it to be too opinionated. Not to mention I found the information/javascript ratio to be too low.

Eventually, after reading up on JS, HTML and CSS, I decided to just write everything in pure web tech. And why not? I don't need a several kilobytes of javascript, just to show some articles!?

And thus this site was born! I'm as of 2020-05-09 still busy writing and re-writing the site because I'm still building up experience, and I still have a small TODO list and I'll have to finish, but it's fine.

If you want to see what this site used to look like, check out archive.org.

For real though: I'm still busy forming ideas around this project

Every damn time I think "I got this", I usually lose it within a day or two, even after writing things down.

The first one I ever made was in cmd.exe, with some janky-ass c moving * and . characters as different sized stars from the right to the left.

Over the years I created different versions (a 2D and even a 3D OpenGL variant!)

Now that I know some HTML/CSS/JS, I decided to recreate this project for the web with plain HTML/CSS/JS! No crazy libraries needed!

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fetch('https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/NostraDavid.json')
.then(response => response.json())
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console.log(`${Date.now()-d}ms\t${JSON.stringify(data).length} bytes`);
});

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• https://old.reddit.com/user/NostraDavid.json
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• https://api.hnpwa.com/v0/news.json?page=1
• https://api.hnpwa.com/v0/ask.json?page=1
• https://api.hnpwa.com/v0/jobs.json?page=1
• https://api.hnpwa.com/v0/show.json?page=1
• https://old.reddit.com/r/popular.json
• https://old.reddit.com/r/popular.json?after=t3_hj7vqj
• https://old.reddit.com/r/all.json
• https://old.reddit.com/.json

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