I immediately went to their Patreon to back despite having very little interest in creating this kind of content myself. If anyone knows of a resource to keep abreast of new things people are making with it, I'm all ears!
The tricky thing is that far more people have outdated browsers that don't support all the cool HTML/CSS stuff I want to do (and that the author also does a lot of).... but even so, I check up on how my site looks on Lynx every now and again.
It's a beautiful little webpage that does not try to be any more than it is. The sound is a big part of it so if you can't check it out with sound on, maybe save it for later.
Interactive fiction at a solo dev scale is often really really linear. This game structures around that well, I felt -- the repetitive nature of what you're doing is the point, what makes it meaningful even in the absence of alternative choice.
Really interesting about how this centers on what Dolly means to people now, rather than on what she has meant to people -- my mother felt very strongly about her working-class feminism and how people looked down on her -- while acknowledging that the two are barely related.
This digs real deep into the lenses on Dolly that come from race and gender. I would only have liked to read more material on class, too--but it's already pretty long so you can't cover everything.
I truly believe this has real utility if you have been designing Professional Looking Web Products for long enough that you can't look at the possibilities flexibly enough any more.
(Is the metaphor coffee to cleanse the palate, or smelling salts?)
I can't tell you how annoying it is to start using one of these to run up against needing a cm7#9 and having it not have it. The paired drum machine is fun too.
This is really cool and I wish more tech education could be so carefully targeted for social good. Is it weird to think that advanced Excel skills would be similarly useful deployed in such a way? Harder to make available to businesses, though.
Is the kind of PoS software I see everywhere on iPads extensible in ways that could be made useful to its users?
it's sort of criminal that we don't learn in school how buildings are made, even a little. if my parents hadn't both worked construction I wouldn't even know the little I know. this is one area where newer building codes may have driven up the cost of construction, but with the result that the flimsiest tackiest new development should have you sleeping soundly where seismic guidelines are concerned.
well, unless it's built right on the coast where no residential development should ever have been allowed.
I was alive for a couple of them, but I never had a Game Boy.
Try choosing a color palette with a range of values but unnatural colors and selecting the ordered dithering, 2x2 matrix. Isn't it nice? I wonder how hard it would be to do as a build step in a static site generator. (Oh, man, you could theme your image assets to match swappable site color schemes... has someone done this? Someone who cares more about swappable color schemes than I do should do this.)