[oliwarner]

It's tracking every visitors' cursor and sharing it with every other visitor.

Why would a frontend developer demonstrate their ability to do frontend programming on their personal, not altogether super-serious blog? I meant that rhetorically but it's a flex. I agree, not the best design in the world if you're catering for particular needs, but simple and fun enough. You should check out dark mode.

In that vein, I think it's okay if we let people have fun. That might not work for everyone, but why should we let perfect be the worst enemy of fun?

[dathinab]

> Why would

because it shows that they don't understand important design aspects

while it doesn't really show off their technical skills because it could be some plugin or copy pasted code, only someone who looks at the code would know better. But if someone care enough about you to look at your code you don't need to show of that skill on you normal web-site and can have some separate tech demo.

> okay if we let people have fun

yes people having fun is always fine especially if you don't care if anyone ever reads your blog or looks at it for whatever reason (e.g. hiring)

but the moment you want people to look at it for whatever reason then there is tension

i.e. people don't get hired to have fun

and if you want others to read you blog you probably shouldn't assault them with constant distractions

[oliwarner]

> people don't get hired to have fun

Living by that motto is hugely self-destructive.

Creative expression allows us to push ourselves, both in what we think we can do, and often the technical aspects about how we do it too. Even if the idea doesn't stick, you've tried something new.

In a world of Tailwinds and Bootstraps and the same five templates copied again and again and again, let's celebrate the people willing to push things and learn from their inevitable but ultimately valuable mistakes. And let's have some fun along the way.

[JohnFen]

Not every website, even technical ones, need to have an eye towards professional advancement. Sometimes they're just for fun. I welcome it, as it's a thing that gets more rare on the web as time goes by.

[jamincan]

Considering the dark mode is effectively flashlight mode, I think it's reasonable to assume the blog's owner just likes to have a bit of fun.

[FinnKuhn]

I assume the creator didn't anticipate this amount of readers at the same time and having one or two other cursors on the page does sound fun and not too distracting. They should probably limit the maximum amount of other cursors displayed to a sensible amount

[booleandilemma]

Lighten up.