yesterday i was really bored and cus i didnt wake up in time to go to my class i had nothing to do w my life so i decided to make an ispy for here cus i love ispy w my entire life. so i got a bunch of random stuff that i have that was ispy-ey and made it i love it so much. it was actually really fun to make when i was building it out of the different peices and i placed them out on this white paper and then took a pic with my camera. the reason the image is kinda ass is because my camera is this camera from 2011 im pretty sure and idk i think the lens is kinda permanently dirty or sm cus my pictures always look like that. i kinda really like it other than when im tryna make a high quality ispy but whatever. also it took forever to get the stuff to all even show up with the flash and all the other settings bro it was so annoying. i did the best i could man idk what to tell you.
anyways i was so not ready for the setup to be the easiest thing of this all. like the setup was really fun finding all the different objects i could put into it and spacing it out and everything. the only problem that happened was that in the middle of taking the pictures THIS happened.
this big freaking fatty decided to run past me and step all over the stuff. he literally so unexpectedly RAN past me at full speeds to get out of my room bro. im surprised he didnt cause an earthquake with his steps fr like he jumped off the cat tree and i braced for impact. anyways he messed up the placement a bit but i think its so funny i caught it on camera cus it was while i was taking the pics. that was the only hard part of the ASSEMBLY other than getting my camera pics in the right format onto my mac which was such a mistake.
the real difficult part comes to actually putting it on my website. first of all i never want to work with placing an iframe on a specific region of a slanted image EVER again. if its slightly off just literally never tell me its fine how it is i cant go thru that again. but that wasnt my only iframe issue. APPARENTLY on like any browser ever to exist other than firefox the image you place into an iframe needs to be the EXACT width of the screen or it only displays part of it at a time which i think is stupid. anyways obviously because its an ispy and you have to, like, spy in it its a really good(ish) quality picture so its clearly not gonna be like 200px or whatever my little tiny camera is. so i made this little mini version of it to stick inside the iframe which is MEANT to match the exact width of the frame but idk different display sizes fucks that up so its still scrollable for some people which pisses me off but whatever. ill probably fix it at some point.
then we get to the trying to make it full screen and oh my god i have never wanted to eat more bugs in my entire life. me and ahmad were literally trying to figure stuff out for the iframe for ages already trying to make it fit and then we got to the full screen part and it was just like wtf. i THOUGHT it would be pretty easy to make an iframe literally just be clickable into doing something but apparently not. every time i tried to do something to make it into a clickable thing that opened a fullscreen high quality image it would just freak tf out. i even asked chat to like make it work and he just broke it more ugh stupid ai. anyways thats why theres an ugly ass button that technically makes the entire cool camera thing not even be needed technically but ill fix that over time. theres a few things i can think to do but ive honestly already fully moved on from the ispy for now. it'll get fixed whenever i wanna add sm to it or i get sick of how uggo the checklist and buttons are sooo itll be fixed one day.
the entire process of making this was so freaking annoying because first of all the container of my main page was formatted to only be in columns(i have someone to thank for that ahaha). so i had to make an entirely new container specifically for ispy so it could be its own full row and for some reason divs absolutely hate me and never do what i tell them to and it pisses me off so badly. tell me why im justifying my content in the center and that makes it end up at the complete <<< end of the screen like wtf do you mean just LISTEN TO ME TYPING. anyways its fixed now thank god i never wanna have to deal with it again i actually hated coding that i almost fully gave up because i was like this is way too much brokenness for me i cant do this at all. but i did it. so you all can play ispy.
but also technically i havent even done it all.
i havent finished getting the stupid camera thing to work and i really just could not deal with it at all because i was like there is no way im trying to reformat all of this rn to be like heavily scripted. i just wanted to have my ispy picture be VISIBLE and PLAYABLE and also be ON THE SCREEN which was apparently a huge ask from me my bad. but yeah when i add more ispys im gonna make the lil buttons do things to get to the next one. i'm just gonna be really annoyed by how i gotta figure out how to make it full screeen when you click it while also having it change the checklist and the image and have it be able to change to the equivalent full screen image. like its just so much and i know the crappy script i did to make it work how it does right now is gonna really get in the way when i ACTUALLY implement all the newer scripting. its gonna make me so mad istg.
anyways hope you all enjoy playing ispy and think the camera thing is really pretty cus it was the actual most annoying thing that ive ever had to make on this website for it to be such a small thing that works so poorly. please appreciate my efforts.
5/31/2025