Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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813 points · dlazaro · 4 days ago

As a fun evening project, I made a live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme (based on a panel from The Adventures of Tintin comics [1]).

There's a page for every timeframe:

- 'What a day': https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/day

- 'What a week': https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/week

- 'What a month': https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/month

- 'What a year': https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/year

Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP (not logged or stored). No JavaScript is sent to the browser.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh

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isoprophlex · 4 days ago

This is absolutely fantastic, well done!

If you're not done playing with it, you can make it dynamic so it's always accurate, haha! Show the smallest "uncompleted" unit of time available with a fallback for December 31st evenings where tintin simply says nothing...

At night: select the week.

Also end of the week: select the month.

Also end of the month: select the year.

Also end of the year: fallback.

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FearNotDaniel · 4 days ago

> Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP

I was scratching my head for a while wondering why you need an IP address to determine the current time… I’m inferring this means geo-locating the IP to determine the client’s time zone and then using that to convert server time to the user’s local time, right?

Makes me think, it would be nice if there was a standard request header to specify preferred TZ for 'local time', just like Accept-Language (which sadly quite a few websites ignore and show me German-language content anyway just because my location is in a German-speaking country).

Still, great work OP :-) now can anyone tell me why Tintin is trending at the moment? Did I miss something? All my feeds seem to be suddenly full of Tintin content right now.

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Svip · 4 days ago

Can't believe it took me this long to notice, the meme itself is an altered image of the original comic. Obviously, the speech bobbles are too clean compared to the rest of the comic, but I also notice now that they are a poor imitation of Hergé's distinct speech bobbles.[0]

[0] https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/125/139/0ff...

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cprecioso · 4 days ago

As a tip, you can use the `<meta http-equiv="Refresh">` tag [1] to make the browser automatically refresh after N seconds and keep the tab always up to date.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/me...

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latedog · 4 days ago

IDK why, but this reminds me of earlier days of internet, when it was full of random, non-usable but funny content like this. Best things often don't make that much sense.

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