Two Cans & String

{ "thread_id": "54", "posts": [ { "id": "1224853", "time": "1653537130", "html": "It\u2019s turbinate reduction surgery.", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1224862", "time": "1653543887", "html": "I hope it goes well, goodnight!", "user": "noiwillnot" }, { "id": "1224917", "time": "1653573968", "html": "My blood extraction & examination via empty syringes and my own arteries and veins has been postponed to Monday.", "user": "hoylecake" }, { "id": "1225083", "time": "1653587088", "html": "My surgery went well. My nose is sore.", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1225088", "time": "1653587346", "html": "that was fast", "user": "stripes" }, { "id": "1225090", "time": "1653587460", "html": "I was asleep for two hours. The surgery was about 30 minutes. I was in the hospital from 7:30am to 11:00 am<br /><br />It\u2019s not a big procedure", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1225104", "time": "1653588456", "html": "thats true", "user": "stripes" }, { "id": "1225126", "time": "1653597610", "html": "Licky can now finally <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">B R E A T H E</span>", "user": "broncoboy18" }, { "id": "1225159", "time": "1653616198", "html": "tell me how the air smells", "user": "stripes" }, { "id": "1225160", "time": "1653617976", "html": "Like normal because my nose is stuffy as it heals. And sorely painful. And a little bleeding, but that\u2019s normal for the surgery.", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1225247", "time": "1653667169", "html": "If a TCAS API exists, I <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">really</span> want to make a custom client for the site and make it look like a forum site from the 2000's. There's something so endearing about how old they looked. Maybe it's just late nostalgia? Dunno.<br /><br />Problem(s):<br /><ul><li> To my knowledge, none exists</li><li> I have never made a Windows program before, nevermind a custom client for a website. Not sure if Blake would even allow it.</li><li> My wishes of adding <a href=\"https://ericdotcom.com/projects/tcavatarconv/\">Eric-616's avatar converter</a> directly to the avatar editor page will never be fully realized*.</li></ul><br />I can dream.<br /><br /><div style=\"font-style:italic;color:#888;\">* Footnote: I could TOTALLY make a userscript for this EZ PZ. Watch me. I've never made one of those either, though... so...</div>", "user": "hoylecake" }, { "id": "1225328", "time": "1653755202", "html": "This was a forum site in the 2010s. It looked like this.", "user": "sundog" }, { "id": "1225330", "time": "1653756567", "html": "By "2010's" I mean the sites whose designs haven't aged well. 2000's would probably be more appropriate. Really early stuff, is what I mean. Stuff that doesn't really fit today's "modern" sorta aesthetic and looks like it belongs on the web browser of a Windows XP system.", "user": "hoylecake" }, { "id": "1225379", "time": "1653800674", "html": "God, nothing like obsessive thoughts about nostalgia so bad it\u2019s almost crippling..", "user": "guyguy" }, { "id": "1225441", "time": "1653869555", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/hoylecake\">hoylecake</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">If a TCAS API exists, I <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">really</span> want to make a custom client for the site and make it look like a forum site from the 2000's. There's something so endearing about how old they looked. Maybe it's just late nostalgia? Dunno.<br /><br />Problem(s):<br /><ul><li> To my knowledge, none exists</li><li> I have never made a Windows program before, nevermind a custom client for a website. Not sure if Blake would even allow it.</li><li> My wishes of adding <a href=\"https://ericdotcom.com/projects/tcavatarconv/\">Eric-616's avatar converter</a> directly to the avatar editor page will never be fully realized*.</li></ul><br />I can dream.<br /><br /><div style=\"font-style:italic;color:#888;\">* Footnote: I could TOTALLY make a userscript for this EZ PZ. Watch me. I've never made one of those either, though... so...</div></div></div><br />I would very willingly make this my summer project if it was possible.<br /><br />Regardless, I've run into a roadblock where I want something to make over the summer but all of my ideas are out of my scope or <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">too</span> easy.<br /><br />BTW what's the term for using programs to get the html data from a site and filtering the information for a purpose?", "user": "caveat" }, { "id": "1225442", "time": "1653869877", "html": "To paraphrase Blake: "I will change the API at the drop of a hat so I never bother documenting it."", "user": "coldfrost" }, { "id": "1225443", "time": "1653869974", "html": "What a shame.", "user": "caveat" }, { "id": "1225445", "time": "1653870871", "html": "Same energy as some of the webpage elements' styles being hardcoded into their HTML. But that is a huge bummer. Maybe some day.<br /><br /><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/caveat\">caveat</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">BTW what's the term for using programs to get the html data from a site and filtering the information for a purpose?</div></div><br />Could you elaborate? All I can think of are webservers and clients.", "user": "hoylecake" }, { "id": "1225447", "time": "1653871266", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/coldfrost\">Coldfrost</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">To paraphrase Blake: "I will change the API at the drop of a hat so I never bother documenting it."</div></div><br />To say what he did say:<br /><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/blake\">Blake</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\"> I reserve the right to massively change the API's at the drop of a hat, so I don't bother publicly documenting them</div></div><br /><br />I personally think it would be fun reverse engineering TCaS", "user": "broncoboy18" }, { "id": "1225448", "time": "1653871538", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/hoylecake\">hoylecake</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">- To my knowledge, none exists...Not sure if Blake would even allow it.<br /></div></div><br />He basically let me have access to the message backend API with almost no supervision when I was working on the TSaR program, so neither of these are a problem. You just need perseverance and to pester him.<br /><br />Also, it probably helps to use Crayon so it is tangentially beneficial to him.<br /><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/caveat\">caveat</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\"><br />BTW what's the term for using programs to get the html data from a site and filtering the information for a purpose?</div></div><br />Trawler if it's documenting pages and saving them whole, scraper if it's just extracting chunks", "user": "kylljoy" }, { "id": "1225469", "time": "1653882621", "html": "Like 9 years ago I started a vim plugin for the Ask/Answer part of the site. I don't imagine that part of the API still works the same. :)<br /><a href=\"https://github.com/fwip/vim-twocans\">https://github.com/fwip/vim-twocans</a>", "user": "fwip" }, { "id": "1225481", "time": "1653884491", "html": "That's really cool! Iy would have been awesome to actually see that working..<br /><br />This conversation was my initiative to make a crappy command line program that lets you search the CDC api and stuff. Already started and it's already a mess. I have learned how useful xml is though.", "user": "caveat" }, { "id": "1225494", "time": "1653890004", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/caveat\">caveat</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">I have learned how useful xml is though.</div></div><br />XML > JSON", "user": "kylljoy" }, { "id": "1225505", "time": "1653936383", "html": "Pick your poison:<br /><ul><li> Layers upon layers of nested curly brackets that are just as messy as the language it branches off of</li><li> Attributes</li></ul>I'm not very good at XML because I don't ever really use it; reason being, my blood vessels are made of JavaScript code and if I do not make JavaScript code I will die. XML looks really cool though. It looks like everything I could have ever wanted. But I still like curly brackets.<br /><img src=\"https://i.postimg.cc/fT64xRMN/image.png\" alt=\"\" />", "user": "hoylecake" }, { "id": "1225542", "time": "1653963748", "html": "Serious question that I have been pondering:<br /><br />Do you think you could win in a fight against Wario, in your current physical condition?", "user": "ackyyackyattack" } ], "users": { "wlicky": { "name": "W_Licky", "key": "wlicky", "url": "/users/wlicky", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/34566.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "7876" }, "noiwillnot": { "name": "noiwillnot", "key": "noiwillnot", "url": "/users/noiwillnot", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/34285.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "2775" }, "hoylecake": { "name": "hoylecake", "key": "hoylecake", "url": "/users/hoylecake", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/34585.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "3597" }, "stripes": { "name": "stripes", "key": "stripes", "url": "/users/stripes", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/24813.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "1840" }, "broncoboy18": { "name": "BroncoBoy18", "key": "broncoboy18", "url": "/users/broncoboy18", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/21075.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "8785" }, "sundog": { "name": "Sundog", "key": "sundog", "url": "/users/sundog", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/3220.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "4923" }, "guyguy": { "name": "guyguy", "key": "guyguy", "url": "/users/guyguy", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/30108.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "1757" }, "caveat": { "name": "caveat", "key": "caveat", "url": "/users/caveat", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/28718.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "713" }, "coldfrost": { "name": "Coldfrost", "key": "coldfrost", "url": "/users/coldfrost", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/23427.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "8006" }, "kylljoy": { "name": "Kylljoy", "key": "kylljoy", "url": "/users/kylljoy", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/30724.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "4680" }, "fwip": { "name": "Fwip", "key": "fwip", "url": "/users/fwip", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/583.png", "rankClass": "admin", "rankText": "Admin", "posts": "3729" }, "ackyyackyattack": { "name": "ackyyackyattack", "key": "ackyyackyattack", "url": "/users/ackyyackyattack", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/34228.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "8995" } }, "page_num": 3198, "locked": 0, "total_pages": 3209 }

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