Inspiration
I just thought about stupid things we deal with everyday on websites , but done with purposeful stupidity instead of accidental stupidity.
And how this type of stupid stuff is everywhere on the web , somehow especially on big company sites like where are the grown ups! Which made me think of peter pan for the name of the project Never Never Load (it was either this or a never gonna give you up prank )
What it does
The page never stops loading in browsers, so the browsers loading spinner on the favicon always spins and the reload button is always an X. Experience infinite annoyance: https://github.com/PaulNewton/neverneverload Optionally play a shepard tone, an auditory illusion that is a sound that seems to always be rising in pitch somehow.
Minor meme easter egg 🥚
How we built it
CSS, Javascript HTML, caffeine and stupidity. In reverse order.
Challenges we ran into
Trying to make it as stupid simple as possible without spending a stupid amount of time on it while being as stupid as possible. And making some basic imagery to emphasis things.
And that browsers on PURPOSE don't have ways for random webpages to locate specific parts of the browsers UI, so the pointer on the demo is a guesstimate positioning. So it might line up on chrome on desktop but be wildly bad on safari mobile or something, idk.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
rapidly iterating on a stupid idea enough that it's a bit of fun.
What we learned
Learned even stupider javascript. I mean when your making a programming system who just makes it easy to open any door but no limit on how long that door can stay open. That's not a door that's a stupid hole in the wall. See iframe.contentDocument.open()
What's next for Never Never Load
I'd probably play more with shepard tones for the infinite audio illusion to tune it for the page , and maybe experiment with visual shepard tones as a background image. Or using the crashing truck meme as a background.
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