reviving my old paint site / guestbook
I recently saw the work of Good Enough, a small company of people making some cool things online.
One part of their website is their guestbook which lets you draw a little picture. It gets processed and a livestream (which is currently sadly defunct?) shows a little thermal printer printing out what you drew. They then scan the little thermal printout on top of old comics and post it on their website.
I remembered that I wanted to re-instate my old Paint page for a while now. It's a page I made on my first website on Neocities, and it was super clunky and thrown together because I was lacking practice and knowledge. It looks like an old Windows desktop, with desktop icons, a semi-working start menu, and a few windows. One of them is a Paint window. It's not a 100% clone, but it lets you select colors, thickness, clear the canvas and save the image.
So today, I finally did that; I dug through my backups, uploaded it to my current host and updated it to remove old info or dead links. It can be found here. The credits are in the start menu. And it's probably horrible on mobile!
I left it mostly as is because I enjoy the unpolished look of it, the old web stuff, parts of the code that are dumb because I didn't know better. It's a sweet little memory.
Then I wondered, well, would Bear Blog allow me to iframe the Paint canvas on a page? And actually, it does. You can find it here. It's not as cool as the one from Good Enough, because I don't have a submission feature (my host is, for now, static only) and it doesn't look good on mobile Bearblog. But it's a start.
I think in the future, I wanna write my own from scratch and maybe get a VPS to fully set up a submission feature. I hope I find the time to learn more about how to do that.
P.S.: yes, this is the Paint thing my little heart scribble was written on back then :)
Published 27 Sep, 2024, edited 2 weeks, 4 days ago