D-FAULT originally started as a manifesto by Kenny Wang on how to make movies, fabricate films, vaulting videos, and it still is, at its core.
Online, D-FAULT was supposed to become something else entirely: a TV platform, an organizational workflow tool, and most of all, a philosophy of “dfaulting” any process or system down to its simplest, most recognizable and repeatable patterns.
I’m still light years away from recapturing the essence and building what D-FAULT could, or should, have been. For now, dfault.it is a home for some web tools I actually use, and a house for my domain and website projects.
While each new website project will be a test of some sort, trying a new feature, an idea, or just figuring out how something works so I can go back and find it if I ever need it. Dfault.it is where the tools beyond displaying a website will live. Where I can meddle with Bootstrap when creativity needs to fiddle.
Back in the hayday I made a Pop-up Generator, mostly by copy+pasting from wherever I could find code. Monitors were like literally way smaller back then, if you go back 10-12 years, 1920×1080 was considered big. I still even had a trusty 1280×1024. And when you’re poor, when you can’t afford a third monitor, and when Google had the fucking audacity to believe people wanted to stare into bright light all motherfucking day, you had to make your own solutions.
Dark Mode Before Google Gave a Shit – Google Keep Edition
For example I could style Google Keep into a soothingly pleasant dark theme, which I did, heck it even had like 3.2k installs on Userstyles.org before being archived. Keeping up with the constant class changes was a hassle, eventually Google stopped cosplaying Mark Strong in Sunshine and put some shades on their apps.
Even with a dark Google Keep, monitor size was still an issue. This is where the Pop-up Generator became useful. You see, a pop-up didn’t have any of that browser bullshit stealing valuable screen area. Didn’t even show the URL back in the day. Making a pop-up of a website made it feel like a proper program. An app if you’d so kindly not call it that. I could work on my main monitor, and have Google Keep lined up on monitor two, next to WhatsApp and Telegram, all of them with custom dark CSS using the Chrome extension Stylus, all three as pop-ups, none of the blinding lights.
Actually, why the fucking fuck did every single website and app that was released 10 to 15 years ago, all have it in for Gizmo the Mogwai? I rooted my first smartphone so that I could install custom APKs where smarter people had blacked out all the white in apps such as Gmail, Keep, Facebook, etc and so on. It took Google almost 10 years to realize that white light consumed more energy and battery… really?! Were Google developers some sort of super fans of the Gorillaz song White Light? I would have assumed they were psychos, but then they would’ve exploded by their own design…
Anywho!
Copy + Paste until broken!