3 in a row, a streak is forming! *knock on wood* let's keep it goin!
I've been thoroughly enjoying the ritual of spending some time making updates to this site, beyond just the blog. Although, as to whether the blog or the code updates is more THAYR-uh-PYOO-tik remains to be seen.
Zock sent this article which I found very delightful, even if it's old news to anyone who might be reading this. It hits me in a wierd way though.
You see, I find myself feeling disconnected yet to the 'folk internet' / archeo-tech crowd, but I did grow up with the internet, dialup, yadda yadda, ok boomer we get it. I can appreciate the enthusiasm and the aesthetic, and to a degree I find it intellectually intriguing, but I can't bring myself to get wet at the idea of how small the RAM is on a personal computer from before I was born. I don't have much nostalgia for trolling old threads or tearing up IMs late into the night or some MMO.
I also look at social media users (who I don't count myself a member) with growing pity. I did the whole social media thing for some time, starting with Facebook back in yonder days and grew into a few other platforms after feeling decidedly cringe enough to self exile. I just didn't get it. I took the facebook prompt's third person perspective seriously. Actually writing what I was genuinely feeling, thinking, doing. Not a care about what other people might think was cool about it (or more realistically not).
To be fair I suppose I still don't, atleast not from the users 'appropriate' point of view. I've seen too many skinner box design sessions (first hand) to feel any excitement about signing up to slobber myself at the carefully concocted clout coins. fuck all that!
While I do still feel somewhat like I'm drifting the void, the gravity well of the folk net is stronger. If for no other reason than I just like the people better, we get on better. Time will tell if enthusiasm is really contagious, or if the good-times high is just enough to get me coming back for more.
Either way, I'm feelin good about this, and I'm going to keep chasin that feelin.
-Sir
Ok maybe that's a bit harsh...
I'm coming down off of a frustrating afternoon working on this site of all things, which I had thought would be a fun use of my evenings. And while it has been fun, there's nothing like discovering some bizarre quirk, which in this case is all the more frustrating given the depth of left field this arose from.
So as you may or may not know, you can get/set what's between the tags of an HTML element directly in JS.
<openTag> this stuff here </closeTag>
with some code like this...
const elem = document.getElementById('someID'); elem.innerText = 'blah blah';
I'm in fact doing so on this very page as a part of emulating a terminal feel. This worked great... in Chrome. However, Zock informed me I actually crashed his PC by running out of ram when he opened it in Firefox. WTF???
At first I thought it was my recursive calls to setTimeout so I went through the trouble of rewriting everything to use setInterval which I actually like better, since it feels more like I'm queuing up print jobs when I set up these 'typy terminals', but alas no, still crashing.
setTimeout
setInterval
WHAT
THE
FUCK!
On a whim, and seeing that the DOM was growing to multiple Gigs in the profiler I changed the elem.innerText updates to elem.innerHTML... presto. No more crashing!
elem.innerText
elem.innerHTML
Why does this matter? No fuckin clue. I have some reading to do, until then, fuck Firefox, this seems really dumb.
This is my first post here. Not sure what I'll do with it. I can say that zock is to blame/thank (tbd) for this. I've got a good feeling about it, for now it's way better than normy-web!
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