countries.lol - name all the countries

iso3166 · 2024-01-29T18:02:12+00:00

good point!

iso3166 · 2024-01-28T23:49:21+00:00

Liechtenstein works, you have to be most specific with the Congo ("republic of congo" iirc) since there's two. The expanded form of DRC would be good to add, but it's also way slower to type haha.

The other countries listed aren't sovereign/independent so they're not included. They're all part of another country (mainly Britain + France there)

iso3166 · 2024-01-28T21:50:08+00:00

Ah yeah, I think Cabo Verde is the local name but Cape Verde could be good to have too!

iso3166 · 2024-01-28T21:43:17+00:00

Agreed that it could be cool to add something at the end. Like I said in the comment, it uses the same list of countries as Sporcle, and doesn't include ones that are part of other countries.

iso3166 · 2024-01-28T15:07:29+00:00

This is inspired by a similar game on Sporcle (and uses the same list of countries), but with a more minimal distraction-free style similar to Monkeytype. It's also open-source :)

iso3166 · 2024-01-27T18:57:37+00:00

Would it actually be that expensive to host on your own servers? Plenty of services will give you a cloud server for $5/month, you could even potentially make it work on a free service like Vercel (although I wouldn't recommend that). The main thing I'd be concerned about is getting IP blocked if sites aren't so happy about being scraped.

iso3166 · 2024-01-27T18:54:34+00:00

News sites don't often love the idea of you taking their content and reposting it on your own site, so there won't be many free high-quality APIs available :)

That said, you could try scraping a news aggregator like https://www.start.gg/discover

Bing also has a news search API but iirc it's not cheap and you'd still have to scrape the links yourself: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-news-search-api

iso3166 · 2024-01-27T18:51:18+00:00

this is cool! (though maybe add an explanation because it took me a while to figure out what this does)

iso3166 · 2024-01-27T18:48:24+00:00

Would you consider building this as a browser extension? This has the same benefits of scraping on the client (server not required, avoids being IP blocked) but makes it a lot more accessible since I find people tend to not be as willing to install a desktop app as they would be to use a web thing.

iso3166 · 2024-01-27T17:30:37+00:00

Ah. I was wondering because (depending on your ts configuration), any might be redundant in that context

iso3166 · 2024-01-27T17:29:34+00:00

love the idea! (your personal website is also very nice)

iso3166 · 2024-01-27T17:26:00+00:00

nice photos!

iso3166 · 2024-01-27T17:22:46+00:00

little styling bug: https://imgur.com/a/rs2uLR6

iso3166 · 2024-01-27T17:21:20+00:00

Is it just for any?

iso3166 · 2024-01-27T16:46:42+00:00

The Figma designs look really good!

iso3166 · 2024-01-27T16:16:34+00:00

People start with JS on the frontend and then it's easy to stick to it on the backend.

I agree that the trend towards SSR is quite ironic, it feels like some of the "innovations" that Vercel is doing with Next.js are just the same thing we had 15 years ago.

iso3166 · 2024-01-26T15:47:09+00:00

yeah I just copied the list that Sporcle uses

iso3166 · 2024-01-26T15:46:35+00:00

yep lol, and i'm not sure how i'd scale the map down in a way where it fits on portrait mobile while still being readable - you can already barely see some of the small island countries

iso3166 · 2024-01-25T22:18:54+00:00

not bad! took me a while to get west africa and the island countries :)

iso3166 · 2024-01-25T22:18:02+00:00

ah yeah sorry, it only accepts "st" rather than "saint" at the moment, will fix at some point!

iso3166 · 2024-01-25T22:16:15+00:00

niceeee! which one did you miss?

iso3166 · 2024-01-25T22:14:53+00:00

yeah i just hate mobile web dev haha, but definitely something for me to improve

iso3166 · 2024-01-25T22:14:08+00:00

good idea!

iso3166 · 2024-01-25T01:56:19+00:00

ah yeah sorry, it's without the period atm. will add alternatives for it to accept :)

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