For real, I traded Atari games with Craig, the author of this site, in the late 1990's. He is an amazing dude. He also rode his bike around Australia and did a website about it: https://lunky.com/.
I'm reminded of a video installation somewhere of a clock where ever minute a guy repaints the minute line, but I don't remember where or what it was...does this ring a bell with anyone?
Norway likes slow TV, and did this for a whole day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6urNqR7x1kE
I checked in for all the big transitions where multiple panels had to be changed at the same time.
This reminds me of Pharrell Williams' 24 Hours of Happy [1] which was a website that you could visit and it would show a music video timed to that minute. On the hour, ever hour, there would be a special music video with the Pharrell instead.
The song was a real earworm and I'm sure people got sick of it but I really loved that website. Even though the song became a bit too much at times, it was a brilliant thing to watch.
Thanks for posting. In the early 2000's me, my brothers, and my dad spent several months taking pictures and submitting each sequential minute between 8-9. Looking back probably 20 years later now it is quite amusing to still see the pictures there! It has been a long time since I heard about the human clock.
This is the brother of a former housemate of mine, from almost 20 years ago. I emailed him back then to tell him I saw the site and thought it was cool. He told me I should check out his other site: humancock.com.
When I clicked that, the page loaded and read something like, "Shame on you!"
Fantastic and quite fun! This has been around for quite a while. I remember being obsessed with contributing to the Human Clock back in the day. I might go and search for my contributions over the holidays.
Haha yeah, it was just so random like I saw a photo of a table with a drawing of 9:25 or whatever... didn't get it at first, came back new photo with a number on it like oh...
Well, I also feel that this year HN discussions are seeing more bickering and more endless discussions where we have seen each side’s arguments a thousand times. The discussions feel a little bit more predictable than pre COVID. Or maybe I just spend more time in the comments...
You’re trying to make a joke, but the website could definitely be looked at again with modern expectations. It’s unusable on my iPhone. Even trying to pinch zoom somehow interacts with it. I couldn’t figure out its purpose before I lost interest and closed the tab.
The sarcastic attempt to say “look how amazing this without any modern tools” is out of place when the website isn’t very usable.
As a postmodern front-end developer, it is appalling that you attempted to pawn off a classical framework like React to the programmertariat. View frameworks like React and Vue are a waste of CPU cycles and network bandwidth. Not only are they packaged with the application itself, but they also proxy objects (`reactive`) so they can do their hooking. The new way is to compile one's app into an artifact that uses something along the lines of Apple's Clang Automatic Reference Counting to insert re-rendering statements in appropriate areas of the code.
For real, I traded Atari games with Craig, the author of this site, in the late 1990's. He is an amazing dude. He also rode his bike around Australia and did a website about it: https://lunky.com/.