A pill for every ill

[lilinx]

However, this bottle was not marked `poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.

I used tweets from @thisvideowill to generate this thing :
http://www.lilinx.com/thiswill/1/

I really wanted to participate in NaNoGenMo2014, but I have very little time to devote to it, so I did this little thing. Let's call it a draft because I have several other ideas I'd like to put in it.

Few months ago I created @thisvideowill, a twitter bot that systematically retweets the (most hated) "This video will..." trope whenever it spots it. It generates a huge list of outrageously promising sale talk about all the things internet videos will do to you (change your life, make your day, etc.).

[hugovk]

I like it!

[MichaelPaulukonis]

Hunh.

The hover-text is a little slow to pop up. I had to view source before I figured it out.

(or is that a spoiler? THIS COMMENT WILL SPOIL THE SURPRISE!)

[hugovk]

Popup popped up promptly for me with Chrome.

[lilinx]

what browser are you using, Michael ?

[MichaelPaulukonis]

Firefox.

:::sigh:::

You kids with your google browsers. There's some of us what valued privacy in the old days. I'll tell you about it sometime, after I fend off these sentient robot spam zombies who are tyring to embed context-aware lolcat-ads directly into my brain....

[MichaelPaulukonis]

also, I'm seeing:

<img src="" 1.png""="" title="" this="" will="" make="" you="" cry="" thanks="" pewdiepie="" for="" showing="" me="" 😭="" als="" ice="" bucket="" challenge""="">

Which.... doesn't render so well.

[lilinx]

Hi Michael,
thanks for the feedback. I just tried with firefox though and labels show
up very fast.
I unfortunately do not have time to investigate this...as I said for the
moment this is more a draft so polishing would be premature
Now the broken "" phenomenon is more annoying, thank you for pointing.
Especially in firefox, it seems to result in broken imgs. I may fix this
soon.

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also, I'm seeing:

<img src="" 1.png""="" title="" this="" will="" make="" you="" cry=""
thanks="" pewdiepie="" for="" showing="" me="" 😭="" als="" ice=""
bucket="" challenge""="">

Which.... doesn't render so well.

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[cpressey]

Well I for one found staring dumbly at my screen for 60 seconds thinking "Wait, but where is the novel" to be pleasantly mystifying.

Besides, tooltips aren't supposed to pop up instantly... that would be kind of awful, usability-wise.

You may be envious of Generated Detective, @lilinx, but I'm usually envious of your ideas. So there.

[MichaelPaulukonis]

@cpressey @lilinx BOTH o' yez have fantastic ideas coupled with execution. I've had one (two, if you count the whale-jape) ideas this year, and the code is a MESS.

OTOH, this is issue #106. Last year we only got to 82, I believe, with two late entrants (and a few misplaced issues from this year).

[MichaelPaulukonis]

@lilinx I'm looking at the page again (the tooltips come up on hover for me today; my system must have been slow yesterday, or something. or its cached. I dunno).

I wish there was a wee tad more information on the page. Not the technical stuff (twitter bot, tropes, blah blah blah), but the Alice quote, and something about these other bottles of medicine.

You've already got the about link on there -- make it more contextual.

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Idea: the pill bottles don't all simultaneously render. They "pop" into existence on a time (every few seconds, a timout +-flutter). What if the tooltips were mouse-clicks (that auto-fade away), and what if clicking on a bottle changed the speed that other bottles appear at?

Or keep it simple. Simple is also good (plus usually easier to debug).

[hugovk]

@lilinx (For code census purposes) How did you make this? If there is any, is the source code up somewhere?

Remember:

The only rule is that you share at least one novel and also your source code at the end.

:)

[lilinx]

Hugo, you are perfectly right. Beside, I know the rule very well so I'm
100% guilty.
Truth is, there is no source code.
The auto RT twitter account was made with IFTTT or zapier (or something
similar, not sure anymore)
it sends the tweets to some google spreadsheet where the word "video" is
removed.
There is some parsing in the google spreadsheet as well, basic text parsing
formulas
I also coypasted a small macro to auto remove identical lines but it doesnt
work so in the end I just did "erase doubles" in excel or google
spreadsheet...
Then I just create the html by surrounding each line (tweet) by a <img html
tag...
that's it...I hope it's clear
regarding the text procedure it's mostly : find tweets with "this video
will", remove @ references, urls and emoticons, and remove the word "video"

This is cleary not a novel but I can't do much more than a draft here... I
don't have time so I thought I may just participate a bit to the NaNoGenMo
thing :)

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How did you make this? If there is any, is the source code up somewhere?

Remember:

The only rule is that you share at least one novel and also your source
code at the end.

:)

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[hugovk]

That's cool, interesting to hear the process. And this is the second "no code" that uses IFTTT to harvest tweets followed by manual post-processing :)