Are we really so desperate to stick with buzzwords and "hot tech" that we wind up creating Heroku-powered Ruby apps with Bootstrap UI widget-filled pages to serve up a set of 5 static images over HTTP, rather than just, say, uploading them to imgur?
Whilst this is a post of derision, I do think people only know the highest level abstraction mankind can accomplish these days. It's embarrassing really. There is elegance in simplicity.
Please continue to take the piss out of it :)
I actually knocked up a single new static error page for our main web application a few weeks ago in 620 bytes including inline css (quite big if you ask me). It had no dependencies. My coworkers were actually astounded that it was so small!?!?!
Though I think GP is being a bit of an idiot, I read your source and I was a little surprised. The app only consists of static files, yet you run every request through a rack app that does nothing but send the static files (except for the indexing of the face files, which could've been done ahead of time too).
The irony of saying "write less code"? Yes, imgur is itself a service, but it's one with much less complexity (and more generalization) than the OP, and the OP gains nothing from its increased complexity.
I made a similar doom guy visualization long ago to monitor server health that got some laughs from coworkers. Like it was mentioned, be careful since the Doom assets are still copyright id software even if the code and shareware WADs are free.
I'm guessing his intention is that you build an app which scales its metrics to values between 0-100 and then construct a URL directly to the image--that way you don't need to worry about mapping the value to the damage inflicted.
This is the part I'm not understanding. Why would the user want to think in terms of 0-100? What benefit is there to that? One way or another, you're going to be doing Math.floor(val*N/maxVal). What difference does it make if N=5 or N=100?
The only advantage I can see is that setting N higher means that you can later add more steps without breaking backwards compatibility. But this is one case where that definitely won't happen, since the steps are a historical reference.
This is cute but it needs to be obnoxious, not cute. Give me monsters coming out, the screen flashing red when you're hurting and dying etc. If this dude shows up in the middle of your dashboard attacking you you're going to notice. http://cdn.gametop.com/download-free/doom/b2.jpg
Also if the enemies, one per metric, are killed with a chainsaw when your numbers improve or stabilize that would be somewhere close to the pinnacle of awesome.
