KODA

Whee! Somehow, tonight became an exercise in spontaneous javascript coding.

I was just hanging out early this evening when my good friend Insta popped up and said hello. I showed him a little error page I had been working on, and our conversation rapidly spiraled into a rather random little javascript idea of his that would make a “hella cool” error page. Well, I thought it was pretty hella cool too, so I proposed that we write it. He gave me a few starting pointers, and after a little while I was blindly blazing away at this language I had never seriously used before. Well, one thing led to another, and it turned out I would be spending the next several hours going from nearly nothing to DOM access in javascript to pull off this little effect.

I ended up writing 61 lines of code, ranting at Insta about little bits I didn’t understand all the way, but in the end I think what I threw together looks quite nice. It’s inefficient, a waste of cpu cycles, but it works. And the code looks pretty nice, too. I’m sure I made a bunch of little mistakes out of unfamiliarity with the language, but hey, it works – so what more can I ask for? The script resides in a little easter egg I had stuck in the http error handling code several weeks ago, and subsequently forgot about. See if you can find anything funny (beyond the text) about viewing that page!