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Re:Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?'... by rpastuszak on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @05:56AM (#43088212)
(Thinking aloud) How I'd approach that:

- you could render the page using puppeteer server-side, getClientRect/calc and apply the dimensions to the path, then spit back the markup, OR

- you could use HTML + CSS to render the bubbles

Re:Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?'... by encom on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @12:11PM (#43092237)
"Tonight: Orange Reddit over-engineers a meme website that any normal person would just make with seven PNG files and getDay()."
Re:Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?'... by rpastuszak on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:13PM (#43093110)
you might be laughing now, but following the spirit of the Orange Website, I'm building a moat with all of that know-how
Re:Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?'... by latexr on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @04:20AM (#43100234)
Why would you need seven PNGs? And Reddit also has an orange logo, I don’t think that particular dig works.