[HN Gopher] Show HN: Pimp My Readme ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: Pimp My Readme Author : joshdsouza Score : 70 points Date : 2021-10-24 17:00 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (pimp-my-readme.webapp.io) (TXT) w3m dump (pimp-my-readme.webapp.io) | redwoolf wrote: | I'm not a fan of the use of the word "pimp" in this context. | Pimps can be involved in sexual exploitation and sexual | traficking. Plus, I don't feel comfortable using this word in a | professional context. I would never be able to suggest using this | otherwise fun and whimsical project at work. | sodality2 wrote: | >I'm not a fan of the use of the word "pimp" in this context | | In this context it means "to adapt or embellish in an | ostentatious manner". | mattbaker wrote: | Yeahhhh but the context doesn't negate the fact that the word | is a reference to exploitation. I'm with the parent comment | on this one. If it was 2005 I probably wouldn't have blinked | but ya know, the world moves on. | | There are just so many names to pick from! I find the choice | very confusing. Too cringe-y for me to consider sharing or | using personally, but I'm sure some will and I hope they | enjoy it. | siva7 wrote: | Words can have many different unrelated meanings, based on | context. Going with sexual exploitation is beyond absurdity | when Pimp my X is a well-known cultural reference | woodruffw wrote: | I'm pretty sympathetic in this case, but to point out the | obvious: something being a "well-known cultural | reference" isn't itself a strong justification for using | language or symbols that are known to be offensive. | | An intuitive case for most people: we all recognize the | car from The Dukes of Hazzard, but you probably shouldn't | put the confederate battle flag on your own car as a | reference to it. | zyemuzu wrote: | Give it a break, everyone knows and understands this context of | 'pimping' something. | | The endless virtue signalling is so tiresome. | woodruffw wrote: | It isn't apparent to me to me that this person has "virtue | signaled" by expressing their opinion. Why dive immediately | for sinister motivations when someone says that a particular | piece of language makes them uncomfortable? | [deleted] | divbzero wrote: | Love the 90s nostalgia. Could also add something like... | <blink>🏗 This page is under construction. | 🚧</blink> | joshdsouza wrote: | Haha that's a great idea! Let's bring the blink tags back, I'll | add it in tomorrow. | | Also project is open source as well so if you have any ideas, | you can open an issue for it (which I will get to) or just add | it in whenever you can :) | jdauriemma wrote: | Thank you for sharing! For those using this service, please keep | in mind that screen readers are not able to access text in | images. Since the markdown output does not contain `alt` text, | use care when copypasting this into your `README.md`; someone who | is visually impaired will not be able to perceive it. | | Further reading: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H37.html | joshdsouza wrote: | Thanks for catching this! I'll make an update adding the alt | text as default when copy & pasting | joshdsouza wrote: | Hey, I'm Josh & I wanted a way to add some customization to my | readme, so I made this at my company hackathon last week. | | This is an open source project so if you want to contribute just | add your component and put up a PR. Thanks for your feedback! | | GitHub repo here: https://github.com/joshdsouza8/pimp-my-readme | elanning wrote: | Awesome hackathon project. The font scroll is great 90s website | nostalgia. | joshdsouza wrote: | Thanks! 90s web nostalgia is what I was going for :P | rob74 wrote: | The emojis in the "Hey, I'm Jellybear!" marquee line look more | like "octopus-bear" (or "octobear", to compliment GitHub's | "octocat"?). Not sure if there's a jellyfish emoji though... | smusamashah wrote: | I previously used something like that to add number of visitors | on a repos Readme. Now it shows a broken image icon only because | that service has been shut down. | | Best option to use it continously is to host your own version and | use that instead of the one you are providing. | joshdsouza wrote: | Thanks for the feedback! I got permission to host the project | on my company's website after the hackathon, so it will be up | indefinitely ;) | | There's also the option to just clone the repo, run, and host | the server on your own as well, up to you. | andrew_ wrote: | Using the Facebook social icon given current events is just a | smidge tone deaf. | andrew_ wrote: | I would genuinely like to read the rebuttals from folks who've | downvoted this. Please, share your perspective. | humpday69 wrote: | Sorry to be that guy but are we really going with "pimping" in | 2021? After that master branch thing I thought we were trying to | be less edgy with naming. | woodruffw wrote: | I've noticed a lot of projects in the past few years put a lot of | stuff like this in their READMEs, with the (presumable) end goal | of making their repository really "pop" on GitHub. That's | perfectly fine! But sometimes it goes so far as to actively | impede _reading_ the README in a text editor, since it 's now | full of tables and Markdown abuse aimed at making it render | correctly on GitHub. It also has a tendency to break other sites | (think package management indices) that tend to consume READMEs, | as they're now being fed all kinds of weird GitHub-specific | Markdown. That leads to an overall worse user experience, e.g. | when I'm selecting a package from PyPI or crates.io. | | Given that projects are now using their READMEs as de-facto | `index.html` pages, we really ought to just have an `INDEX.md` or | similar convention for presenting all the cute stuff. | mmahemoff wrote: | Ideally those tools would render a file called README.md as | readable HTML. | | For example, w3m renders this project's README cleanly - | https://ibb.co/WPDDL0d | woodruffw wrote: | That would be ideal, yeah. But I don't begrudge them for | failing to do so: GitHub-flavored Markdown is a significantly | more complicated beast than "common" Markdown, which is | itself somewhat fragmented. | [deleted] | denton-scratch wrote: | I can't read your README; I can't scroll down. Sorry. | joshdsouza wrote: | Hey, could you give me a little more detail on what you're | seeing (i.e. what browser are you using), would love to fix it | so you can check it out. Thanks! | denton-scratch wrote: | It seems to have improved now - I can scroll fine. | | This is still the same browser session. | | I'm on a laptop running FF 93.0, with Noscript and Adblocker | Ultimate, both enabled. FF is running full-screen. It's | Win10. | | I didn't record what I saw earlier. Now, I see a number of | clickable placeholder images, and a bunch of "Try me" | buttons. My impression is that the site is for making | marketing-friendly tags. That's cool, just not my thing. I | didn't click. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-10-24 23:00 UTC)