vilmibmJul 14, 2023

okay hi I made a new thing and I'm pleased to announce it: https://blackout.tilde.town . It's a tool for making blackout poetry using nine million chunks of text extracted from project gutenberg.

It's both an authoring tool and an exploration tool.

It doesn't really work on phones yet is the one thing. I'll work on that next week ^_^()

I wrote a blog post about it: https://tilde.town/~vilmibm/blog/#blackout

if you make stuff with it lmk <3

#poetry

blackout engine

Show threadSeverákJul 14, 2023
@vilmibm improvement idea: button to make image copy as this is dependant on font properties and break down when you copy it into another font environment. Also - note that in black unicode box has different width than blacked-out letters (which each has different width when using proportional font).
TL;DR - copy to clipboard does not work as intended because of fonts
Show threadSeverákJul 14, 2023
@[email protected] it looks like this can be done - https://hackernoon.com/how-to-take-screenshots-in-the-browser-using-javascript-l92k3xq7
Maybe I will send you pull request, if I find time and energy for it.
How To Take Screenshots In The Browser Using JavaScript | HackerNoon

Taking screenshots in-browser (or 'client-side') is all about tradeoffs - there's no perfect solution for every situation. Let's take a look at three different ways you can take screenshots, and then how you can use them by sending them to a server or letting the user download the image.

Show threadvilmibm
@severak that would be welcome! i can also take a crack at it next week.
Jul 14, 2023 at 5:36pmWeb