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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by lxe on Thursday July 03, 2025 @03:41PM (#44458508)
This is cool but was hard to read because I think it lacks some context... so "one of my friends" made a site where anyone could toggle a checkbox on a large canvas of checkboxes?

And you (author?) set up a script to automatically toggle a bunch of them at a at a time to anime a short video of Jake Gyllenhaal?

Was this done via rendering the site and toggling appropriate coordinates, or through an endpoint/API?

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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by pieterr on Thursday July 03, 2025 @03:43PM (#44458533)
More context:

https://eieio.games/blog/the-secret-inside-one-million-check...

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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by lxe on Thursday July 03, 2025 @05:28PM (#44459348)
Aaaah this fills in the gaps! Thanks!
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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by ednaordinary on Thursday July 03, 2025 @04:36PM (#44458952)
author here! I mostly assumed the reader had some context for this blog around omcb since it had gone viral and I posted it in circles already familiar, but looking back that wasn't a great decision. I'll likely revise this blog soon as there's a few other things I thought I didn't explain well. thanks for your feedback!
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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by keysdev on Thursday July 03, 2025 @06:24PM (#44459652)
Is there a demo or git of the page?
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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by ednaordinary on Thursday July 03, 2025 @08:34PM (#44460253)
omcb is available but only in single player mode now: https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/
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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by keysdev on Friday July 04, 2025 @04:02PM (#44467433)
Ah I thought I was gonna see the sexy Gyllenhaal in checkboxes. Is there a public page of that?
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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by ednaordinary on Friday July 04, 2025 @08:32PM (#44469169)
the multiplayer version is offline now and you couldn't see it without converting the underlying bytes to the 1000x1000 canvas. I do have a timelapse of the full time it was running though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8zg6cKxHFs
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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by j0rd72 on Friday July 04, 2025 @07:31AM (#44463574)
Not to pile on, but I wasn't expecting your "what's this" link to be a magnet link to Discord. Could be worth specifying that, or at least using a pop-out/magnet icon beside it.
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