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Show HN: I Am Pickle Rick

78 points| haldora | 6 years ago |iampicklerick.com

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haldora|6 years ago

Hey HN!

This is a silly site based on the Rick and Morty clip of Rick turning himself into a pickle [1] (because ??? he could). The amusement comes from Rick revealing he is the pickle, so I turned that into a command line 'surprise'. When you type "flip-pickle" into the mock-terminal, an asciiart image of Rick the pickle is shown.

That's it... lol. A simple and silly project. I considered making it more of a text adventure, but honestly two days of dev time is more than enough for this app!

Plus I now know how to use a mock-terminal in React, so I learned something. :)

If you are interested in the tech, this is a single page app (SPA) built in ReactJS using the terminal-in-react [2] library. Deployed with docker-compose on my Hetzner server, utilizing Cloudflare. It has 4 sizes of asciiart for different screen sizes, so it works decently well on mobile and desktop. And the favicon! lol.

But back to the serious work.

[1] https://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/its-pickle-r...

[2] https://github.com/nitin42/terminal-in-react

codehusker|6 years ago

This is wonderful. A silly reference dressed in 'hacker' style. It doesn't boost productivity, it's just joyful. Well done.

_visgean|6 years ago

> because ??? he could

spoiler alert

is it not just to avoid therapy?

carrozo|6 years ago

Aw geez. Did you make this to get out of therapy? :p

zelias|6 years ago

UX improvement: make it case insensitive. I'm on mobile and it took me a sec to realize that it didn't work because my keyboard automatically capitalizes the first letter in an input box

haldora|6 years ago

Agreed. I noticed that and found it annoying, too. Will work on it! :)

hermanradtke|6 years ago

Also, consider allowing "flip" as a valid action.

torgian|6 years ago

Must optimize and reoptimize!

airstrike|6 years ago

time to turn off that auto-capitalization! down with capitalism!

phantom784|6 years ago

Aww, was hoping there'd be an old-school text adventure here!

haldora|6 years ago

Hmm, next time! I keep thinking of ways to tie in education to a text adventure. Trying to achieve what Walt Disney said:

> I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Accujack|6 years ago

I see what you did here. I just don't understand why.

aerovistae|6 years ago

Why are people upvoting a random asciiart? Flagged.

unstatusthequo|6 years ago

Because it's amusing, nostalgic, and related to code. Have a sense of humor. Flagged.

FriendlyNormie|6 years ago

This might be the post that causes me to never come back to HN.

grawprog|6 years ago

Ya know, sometimes it's nice to just relax and be silly once in a while. Even on a pretentious news aggregator devoted to people trying to suckle on VC money to launch their next 'great idea'.

taneq|6 years ago

Neither part of your username seems accurate. :(

haldora|6 years ago

Noo! We're just having a few lighthearted laughs :)

lostgame|6 years ago

Cute but definitely keep going - I expected to make it through a bunch of the dialogue and thought it’d just crapped out. Super cute though.

chachachoney|6 years ago

You're leaving a lot of extra gold stars on the table by not including some Solenya lore...

smoyer|6 years ago

Hire you based on that? ... there might be a tad more to the process than that!

Crosseye_Jack|6 years ago

I mean, he did turn himself into a pickle. Geez rick, they were right about outlandish requirements in the job market these days. I’m glad I have my 25 years of react experience to fall back on.

BossingAround|6 years ago

Love it :)) I'm quite sure you could host it for free on something like Netlify. No need for a full VM to host a static webpage without DB needs :).

m3kw9|6 years ago

I tried Flip pickle, Flip-pickle, only flip-pickle worked!

haldora|6 years ago

Sorry about that. Working on a fix. It's currently a bit fickle :P

torgian|6 years ago

Hah that’s awesome. I read that in his voice too

Andromeda88|6 years ago

Haha super cool. Will share with fans.

Accessed from mobile. Capital letter thing is annoying.

haldora|6 years ago

Thanks! I added a quick fix :)

luma|6 years ago

> Rick turning himself into a pickle [1] (because ??? he could)

I feel like most people miss the thrust of that episode. Pickle Rick is an allegory about Rick’s drinking problem taken to an absurd literalist extreme.

Waterluvian|6 years ago

He's literally pickled himself.

This was obvious to me but I love these kinds of things that are hiding in plain sight. It took me 30 years to understand the "chicken cross the road" joke.

I adore the "ohhhhh" feeling you get when discovering them.