The page's html and css are reasonably small, 3.3kB and 1.5kB. There are three fonts, totalling about 51kB. So altogether about 56kB.

But then somewhat spoiling the page's nice light weight is a 576kB favicon.

I suspect that it is related to the M&S and Co-op attacks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykgrv374eo

I do https://wordnerd.co/secretword/ most days. It has a similar interface to alphaguess, and I prefer both of them to midword's interface.

It appears to highlight the letters that your guesses have narrowed it down to. For example if you had narrowed it down to after 'sudden' and before 'super', it would highlight 'su'.

That was fun. I got a score of 4174, and an average of 6.2 years off. Clothes and hair styles were quite helpful in 3 of the pictures.

I'll definitely take a look at it tomorrow.

It's not an http server. Try with something like nc or telnet, and you should get an 'ok' response before it disconnects.

    telnet -4 susam.net 8000

From the article:

> The other party can use whatever client they have to connect to port 8000 of my system, e.g., a web browser, nc HOST 8000, curl HOST:8000, or even, ssh HOST -p 8000, irssi -c HOST -p 8000, etc.

Oops, that'll teach me to read articles properly before commenting, rather than just skimming.

Now I feel a bit like writing some tool to automatically follow your posts (easy with existing HN replies) do a semantic analysis on them to determine when you will make that misstake again and give some alert (the hard/expensive part).

Maybe the alert could be four beeps on your terminal

And then I write a blog post about it. But maybe I find something more novel. (And I have, but maybe I can actually use it for the task above)

To get an OK I had to force curl to use http 0.9

> curl -v --http0.9 susam.net:8000

It's 50 feet.

Using Pythagoras, it's the square root of 30*2 + 40*2. It effectively a 3, 4, 5 right angle triangle.

That would be great. Highlighting each one as it's talked about would be even better.

The page appears to install global keydown/up handlers that swallow all key events. And it also disables the browser's context menu.