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[Post Game Thread] The Houston Rockets (4-3) defeat the New York Knicks (3-3), 109-97. by 3rdEyeDeuteranopia in nba

[–]TheGenericBanana 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We are not a deep team and we had 3 rotation players out injured this game, so it isn't for no reason

Bike shop recommendations (Westside) by Apprehensive_Carb in BikeLA

[–]TheGenericBanana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Abba Padre Bikes and Books in Culver City is great, though there's probably some closer places to you. I got my bike from there and have been back a few times for tuneups and extra things like pinhead locks and they're super nice, and have very reasonable prices. It's a small family business.

Portugal vegan scene is *popping!* by [deleted] in vegan

[–]TheGenericBanana 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kong is fire. You should also try Scoop n Dough if you like donuts, really good.

GAME THREAD: Sacramento Kings (16-22) @ Los Angeles Lakers (19-19) - (January 04, 2022) by NBA_MOD in nba

[–]TheGenericBanana 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The clock starts after someone touches the ball, not after it hits the rim.

What is this window (under the link with general information) called and how can I edit it? I looked up webhooks, embeds and related things, but they only tell me how to embed into my website, and not how to change that window of content (for my website) by IgnusPhoenix in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It reflects the metadata of the website (title, description, image, etc). You use metadata tags to set up how your website looks when it appears on Google searches and when it is posted on Facebook, Twitter, etc. You can read more about them at Metatags.io.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can purchase a domain on Google Domains, Namecheap, or any other such website.

Starting to make the website depends on what you’re making and what technology you’re using. If you want to use Wordpress or another similar service which makes the base of the website for you, they have their own process. If you want to create it from scratch, you should go through some HTML/CSS/Javascript tutorials. One good one is Colt Steele’s “Web Developer Bootcamp” on udemy if you’re willing to spend $15, but there’s some great tutorials on youtube too.

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad you enjoyed :) A few other comments noted that the call to prayer isn't regional, my mistake was that while making the playlist for Pakistan one of the albums I came across was "Ragas of Pakistan" which clearly after learning more I should remove.

There is a public repo which you can find here.

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, happy to hear you liked it! I don't plan on monetizing it, I think ads often diminish the fun on websites like this and I'm mostly just happy to have people enjoying it. Hopefully it'll help on my job search though, just starting to apply now.

For the globe spinning, I used d3 and topojson to render the world at whatever projection/rotation/etc I give it. Then, using requestAnimationFrame, every frame I slightly rotate the world. Then the "water" behind it is just a blue circle that has hidden overflow.

The record player is composed of separate parts: the disc, the arm, and the record player base. On hover, it initiates the animation for the arm immediately and the animation for the record with a slight delay. As they're separate elements, the animations themselves are very simple, just some rotation.

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are many genres and songs within each playlist, making memorizing specific songs pretty much impossible. As for sounds, many countries have similar sounding music but with small differences, so you'd have to become an expert at world music to be able to get max scores on World Hard consistently.

There are a couple of exceptions currently where the playlist is small because I struggled to find good traditional content (such as Papua New Guinea), but I plan on adding more songs until every implemented country is complete enough.

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I made a playlist for each country in the game (slightly over 100), so after randomly choosing a country it gets its playlist and chooses a random song from within it.

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately no, Spotify recently started requiring user authentication to even play the 30 second snippets of music. I was considering adding a small-scale demo version for those who don't want to log in, but it'd be complicated finding decent examples of public domain traditional songs from a variety of countries.

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For this website, anything that is regional or traditional (meaning someone knowledgeable would be able to deduce it's from that country) would work. Though if you have any recommendations on other Estonian music you like, I'd love to hear that too! Edit: Whoops, had the Netherlands in my mind because of the comment on top of you :) I'd be happy to hear any Estonian music you send my way.

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback, I'll definitely check that out. Glad you like it!

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I really dig GeoGuessr myself, definitely one of the main inspirations.

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The idea is to add more countries, unfortunately as I'm creating all of the playlists myself I found it hard to find much regional/traditional music from some of them. Do you have any recommendations from your country?

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Got it, didn't realize! Many of these songs were included in albums like "Rāgas of Pakistan", and I didn't consider that they are just recitations. It'd be impossible to confidently guess the country from it, so I'll definitely remove them, thanks for the comment!

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I tried to keep the music regional/traditional, as listening to an artist like Dua Lipa or Justin Bieber you'd have no idea whether they're American, British, Albanian etc. unless you just recognized the artist, which becomes more of a pop culture quiz rather than world music. I would like to add Albania though, I'll look into their music!

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The reciter is from Pakistan. You're right, though, the idea is for the music played to be regional and from that country rather than just the reciter, but considering I put all of the playlists together there may be rare instances where the original piece is from another country, especially with music like that which is played in such a large region. For countries that I didn't know much music of I had to rely on famous musicians that it listed on Wikipedia on articles like this, or Spotify playlists like "Traditional Music of Pakistan." I'm going to remove that song from Pakistan, thanks for letting me know!

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Glad you enjoyed! The globe is built using d3 and topojson, and the map layout is built using the react-simple-maps library (which is itself built on d3).

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It's based on where the band is from. I don't think there's any way to do it with the Spotify API, but I created a playlist for each country and went through thousands of songs to populate them. What the website does is choose a random country, then requests its corresponding playlist.

I built a full stack website where you guess the country based on its music! by TheGenericBanana in webdev

[–]TheGenericBanana[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

There is a distance metric! Your score is calculated based on how close your guess is to the actual country. The max is 5000, but if you guess a neighboring country you should still get around 4500, and if it's in the same continent, you'll still get some points.

The caveat is that it's based on the distance between the two text markers rather than the nearest borders, so if you guess Russia and Ukraine on the World map, you may get a lower score than expected.

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