[haldora]

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]

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

[haldora]

You comment is so nice. I keep coming back to it. I'll strive to leave comments like this elsewhere; simple but very powerful!

[_visgean]

> because ??? he could

spoiler alert

is it not just to avoid therapy?

[erulabs]

I believe that's the point of the episode - people go far out of their way to elaborately avoid getting help or working on their problems - or to even acknowledge they have problems in the first place. Rick is willing to turn himself into a pickle and fight to the death in the sewers before he talks to his daughter about his mental health.

[carrozo]

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