{"id":107,"date":"2008-08-26T01:14:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T22:00:16","slug":"thinking-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/26\/thinking-out-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Out Loud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now my plan is to make <a href=\"http:\/\/patrickgillespie.com\/\">patrickgillespie.com<\/a> a depot for random projects and ideas. I was thinking that it might make sense to move some of my more random content (the miscellaneous section and Javascript games) this new site. That&#8217;d allow me to narrow the focus here to tools and programming. <\/p>\n<p>For this new site&#8217;s interface, the main idea I was throwing around in my head was for the user to see a bunch of images floating through space. Each image would represent a piece of content and none of the content would be related. The idea would be that this was just a bunch of random stuff floating through cyberspace.<\/p>\n<p>I whipped up a quick prototype using Van Halen album covers, which you can see by clicking the above link, and was unimpressed with the outcome. The movement ended up being pretty jumpy, and I&#8217;m not sure I like how the images just disappear when they &#8220;hit the screen&#8221; (when they do that they&#8217;re reset to way back in the distance). I&#8217;m starting to think that this kind of stuff is best left to Flash. There&#8217;s also some other issues, but since this is just a prototype I didn&#8217;t bother with certain details.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m thinking of stealing my <a href=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/games\/sliderpuzzles\/\">slider puzzle&#8217;s interface<\/a> for patrickgillespie.com since I liked how that came out and nobody ever uses that thing anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now my plan is to make patrickgillespie.com a depot for random projects and ideas. I was thinking that it might make sense to move some of my more random content (the miscellaneous section and Javascript games) this new site. That&#8217;d allow me to narrow the focus here to tools and programming. For this new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/26\/thinking-out-loud\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thinking Out Loud<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}