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  1. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

    http://www.georgeandjonathan.com/ The music here is pretty neat but I'm primarily linking this for the sake of the site itself because holy cherries

    Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 04:27:38 UTC from web
    1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

      @redenchilada Amazing

      Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 04:30:59 UTC from web
      1. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

        @nerthos Probably the best thing I've seen on the internet. I wanna crack open the source and learn things from it

        Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 04:36:50 UTC from web
        1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

          @redenchilada You could always send an email to the dudes who made it to see if they're willing to share something

          Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 04:44:51 UTC from web
          1. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

            @nerthos All the stuff I'm interested in is sent straight to the browser anyway. (Unless they minify the JS. Urg. Minification is the bane of my existence.)

            Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 04:47:04 UTC from web
            1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

              @redenchilada I don't know what minification is but it reminds me of Austin Powers. In any case, cracking open stuff is always fun.

              Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 04:48:55 UTC from web
              1. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

                @nerthos It's a means of rudimentary Javascript and CSS compression that removes all of the whitespace and comments that don't matter to the interpreter, and in JS's case renames all the non-global variables to the shortest possible unique names. It's great for publishing things because it means filesizes are smaller for web transmit, but it's awful for cracking things open and figuring out how they tick because the minified code is unreadable.

                Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 04:51:55 UTC from web
              2. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

                @nerthos The best way to illustrate would be to show you our site's main Javascript file and the minified version. The latter is half the filesize, but you ain't figuring out how it works any time soon. The former is much easier to edit.

                Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 04:54:35 UTC from web
                1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

                  @redenchilada The second one looks horrid

                  Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 05:00:02 UTC from web
                  1. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

                    @nerthos To edit? Absolutely, and I need to stop being lazy and get the compressor the SN devs used so I can stop manually porting changes to the minified file. It's good for page loading, though.

                    Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 05:06:07 UTC from web
                    1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

                      @redenchilada I meant to look at. I wouln't know where to begin if I wanted to edit it. With the other one, I'd probably manage, to a degree.

                      Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 05:10:08 UTC from web
                    2. Cerulean Spark Cerulean Spark

                      @redenchilada Isn't it actually Cloudflare that's minifying it?

                      Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 07:37:31 UTC from web
                      1. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

                        @ceruleanspark StatusNet has minified JS files everywhere and the site uses them by default. Cloudflare might be doing some additional minifying.

                        Tuesday, 22-Apr-14 17:38:24 UTC from web