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Sir Cumference

01:57

Nice so far

@kimholder By the way, who designed the website?

> Jesus is a cool guy, comparable to Sergej Korolev and Isaac Newton

This needs to be a quote

2 hours later…

Phiteros

03:40

The AAS is hosting a program to help early-career astronomers get better at outreach and public education. You have to register, and it takes place during the first week of January. Details here

I'm hoping to attend. Places are limited, so you have to apply. You also have to be an AAS member to attend, so I've filled out that application as well.

11 hours later…

kim holder

14:34

@SirCumference i did

kim holder

15:06

livestream.com/AIAAvideo/…

^ a lot of the AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum will be livestreamed at the link above. Under the video area there is a schedule

it starts tomorrow

Hohmannfan

Today I learned: It is only possible to review up to 20 items per review queue per day.

kim holder

15:21

were there actually 20 items to review? not here surely

Hohmannfan

no, not here

kim holder

what site?

Hohmannfan

Worldbuilding

kim holder

oh nice, you got a 14 minute break :)

Hohmannfan

Just enough for a cup of tea:)

kim holder

15:31

with milk :)

Hohmannfan

exactly :)

XKCD

16:15

[After setting your car on fire] Listen, your car's temperature has changed before.

Hohmannfan

17:01

alt-text: "[After setting your car on fire] Listen, your car's temperature has changed before."

4 hours later…

Sir Cumference

21:02

@kimholder Nice job on it, but just so you know, the page continues for 4000 pixels in height after all the content.

@Hohmannfan This isn't reddit :P

Hohmannfan

@SirCumference I know, but reddit is too scary

Sir Cumference

@Hohmannfan Scary? ._.

kim holder

@SirCumference yes - my best guess is that is the browser thinking it needs to add height for all the text that only pops up if you hover over the numbers on the images. But i left it. I worked hard on that background and i like it that if people scroll to the end they can properly see it. :)

Sir Cumference

@kimholder That's true. Just a suggestion, but have you thought about a parallax background?

Hohmannfan

Perhaps you can turn the boxes into elements in a svg graphics, and have js hoover triggers on them?

Sir Cumference

21:13

Uh, is the website down for you guys?

Or just me?

kim holder

No. Way... that happened yesterday. checking...

Hohmannfan

up and running

Sir Cumference

Strange

kim holder

yeah, it's there for me too

Sir Cumference

Going to it just yields me this

I guess it's a problem on my end

Hohmannfan

21:15

That is a general error

kim holder

weird - this works for you and that not only doesn't work, it says you aren't even online.

Sir Cumference

Bizarre

kim holder

are you on the SE app for chat?

Sir Cumference

Every other website works

Wait wtf

What on Earth just happened to the chat?

kim holder

hm...

Sir Cumference

21:17

It flung up

kim holder

didn't for me. it would seem your browser is a little confused.

Sir Cumference

Tried it on Safari too, no luck :/

Hohmannfan

Safari error?

Sir Cumference

And Firefox

I normally use Chrome

Hohmannfan

No troubles in Midori here

kim holder

21:19

i don't know much of anything about this stuff. i couldn't even suggest the source of the issue.

Hohmannfan

You might want to delete that last screenshot...

Sir Cumference

Er, why?

kim holder

personal info

Hohmannfan

Your real name, can confirm

Sir Cumference

Well, my name, but that's it

@Hohmannfan You got your name on the website, right?

kim holder

21:21

up to you, sometimes people don't like that revealed

Hohmannfan

No, license text in some software you sent me

Sir Cumference

@Hohmannfan What?

Oh you mean that JS game?

Welp, the chat's going haywire

Hohmannfan

Hmm.. the retry symbol is showing, that is usually a sign of an unstable connection.

kim holder

this at least reassures me that maybe the problem with moonwards loading is not happening to others

Sir Cumference

@Hohmannfan Nope, that's a grammar extension

Hohmannfan

21:25

Oh, I sometimes get an icon in that spot

Sir Cumference

So, er, not sure if this is from my end of the site's end

Hohmannfan

Ouch.

Sir Cumference

@Hohmannfan Huh?

kim holder

it couldn't get the DNS address, which again implies you aren't connected to the internet

Sir Cumference

Bizarre...

Every other site works

kim holder

21:28

and they are all in the same window, in different tabs?

Sir Cumference

All right, seems to be fixed

So anyways...

Have you made a mobile version of this site?

kim holder

it was designed to be responsive, but after adding the sketchfabs, that broke down because they don't resize.

Hohmannfan

Personally, I am more inclined to a "best viewed with any device" philosophy.

Sir Cumference

I'm the other way around. Some features just work better on some devices than others.

Hohmannfan

If a design does not work everywhere, the design is broken.

kim holder

21:32

it works down to 640px wide, which makes it alright for most devices, and on a phone those animations are going to run so badly you aren't missing anything

The thing right now is that to properly function the website has to become something way more complex than i could code. So, i'm moving it to Drupal. Probably. Wordpress is another possibility.

So, rather than upgrading it, i'd prefer to learn Drupal and start moving it over to that system.

Hohmannfan

the old days of horror: IE and NS were developing different sets of HTML tags. People had to put stickers on their page to tell people what browser to use to view the page properly.

kim holder

Sir Cumference

@Hohmannfan When on Earth do you remember that?

Hohmannfan

#fakeNostalgic

kim holder

i remember it...

Sir Cumference

21:34

Oh, okay then

My nostalgia just consists of the annoying sounds of dial-up

kim holder

heh - and calling fax machine lines.

Sir Cumference

Today the company that provided us dial-up is still around

and charging people for dial-up

juno.com

It's laughable

Hohmannfan

I technically still use dial-up.

No sound though

Sir Cumference

@Hohmannfan What do you mean, "technically"?

Hohmannfan

Well, things are still hooked up in the same way to the phone grid.

When people made the transition to mobile phones, the tele-companies suddenly had a big piece of infrastructure they could turn into "broad"bound.

And when people get tired of that slow system, they get modems to connect to the new cell phone grids for a faster connection. The cycle is complete :)

Sir Cumference

21:41

Well, people say this is next

Li-Fi

Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) is a bidirectional, high-speed and fully networked wireless communication technology similar to Wi-Fi. The term was coined by Harald Haas and is a form of visible light communication and a subset of optical wireless communications (OWC) and could be a complement to RF communication (Wi-Fi or cellular networks), or even a replacement in contexts of data broadcasting. It is wire and uv visible-light communication or infrared and near-ultraviolet instead of radio-frequency spectrum, part of optical wireless communications technology, which carries much more information, and...

Uses visible light as internet, so it could be 100x faster

But doesn't go through walls

So you need special lightbulbs

People are gonna waste electricity like hell

Hohmannfan

Perhaps you can run a fibre cable from the light-bulb to the machine? You then get a fully functional "cable-WiFi"

Then you can upgrade to a wireless cable-wifi.

Li-Fi... Wait, I can not get internet access sitting in a dark room staring at my screen? Forget it.