Gregory's ServerI made a website. it's called "one million checkboxes dot com". it has one million checkboxes on it.
checking a box checks it for everyone.
that's it. have fun!
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  @UlrikNyman @eieio me neither! Will be fun when it works. Until then I'll carry on watching those dancing hampsters. @eieio I think it says a lot about the state of #ukpolitics that I'm playing with this rather than listen to Sunak and Starmer on the #bbcdebate   It is interesting to look at the reactions in the handful of hours so far: On the FediVerse, most repliers are posting images of the patterns/messages that they made. On Reddit, most repliers are merely saying "cool!" and suchlike. On Hacker News, most repliers are either talking about server load or posting JavaScript that they have written to mass-(un)check all boxes & talking about the rate limiting. So it looks like it is the Hacker News people who are erasing the FediVerse art. Amusingly, all three groups are perplexed by the coloured boxes. I am half tempted to start a rumour that clicking the gold or purple boxes also triggers the execution of a hidden piece of the JavaScript. (-: I wonder how many people are looking at that huge table in the code and trying to discern a mathematical pattern in it.  @eieio Nice! This is the digital version of popping bubble wrap! :MOULE_Happy:   @jacobdewitz hi I am still trying to keep the server up (the site blew up!) so not a lot of time to explain but the basic details are over on https://eieio.games/ and the trick for checkboxes is only rendering the ones in view. @eieio This is the best thing on the internet since the big red button that does nothing.  @eieio I cleared some random lines and watched them fill in again but when I spelled out "hi" it remained up so that was interesting. It may be gone by now though.  @eieio@mastodon.gamedev.place it wrote "trans rights" and it got deleted :neocat_floof_sad:  @eieio Very recommended for anyone loves whack-a-mole. Probably the first version that lets you be the mole... @eieio@mastodon.gamedev.place fun website! tried checking off some boxes myself earlier when Jeff Geerling posted about it.    @eieio were you around for the "Million Dollar Homepage" years ago? A million-pixel image you could buy chunks of for whatever you wanted to display, for a dollar a pixel. That was a long time ago. @the_turtle I was too young to participate but certainly read about it as a kid and loved it! inspiring for sure     @eieio this is fun! It reminds me of r/Place (https://redditblog.com/2017/04/13/how-we-built-rplace/), and a time I did something similar once with physical LEDs: https://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2017/04/13/placematrix.html @eieio with the internet so old, how has this not been done before? Don’t answer its rhetorical.    @eieio fun project. Reminds of the early internet. You should present it to the tiny awards (if they organize them again). How did you get one million checkboxes to work? I tried having a few thousand once for a CSS game and the browser would crash miserably 😓 @alvaromontoro I submitted another project of mine (stranger.video)! maybe next year (and the trick with the checkboxes is only rendering the ones in view) @eieio While I like that some projects are respected in the checkiverse, there is at least one swastika project that is an unfortunate inevitability of a public graffiti space.  @eieio some people mentioned r/place, but does anybody still remember the million dollar homepage? @eieio i totally love this. sweet pure and simple. Maybe you like my "framed" which debuted in 1996: https://ferdinandpeer.nl/framed/  @eieio I had a nice pattern going. Full width, 10 rows tall, diagonal lines every 3 spaces. Was adding an 11th row when others found my spot.   @eieio Even when jumping to a random checkbox over 20000, someone unchecks what you check. |
@eieio this first page would make an amazing blinkinlights driver