Comment by Tiberium
2 days ago
The article mentions this:
> So it kind of cheated, though it clearly felt angst about it. After trying a few ways to get the stars to line up perfectly, it just gave up and copied the screenshot in as the background image, then overlaid the rest of the HTML elements on top.
That does not make the title any less clickbaity. Moreover, it does not seem like a vindication of johnfn's original comment.
index_tiled.html is what justifies the title IMO - it's not using a screenshot as the background like index.html, and is as close as you can get using the original assets given the screenshot's scaling and compression artifacts (minus the red text being off).
But I feel it'd make more sense to just retake the screenshot properly and see if it can create a pixel-perfect replica.
The outcome does not justify @johnfn's redemption celebration. That's why I decided to give him a heads up.
Aside from that, I think it's a joke. Like the value of pi example I gave in the other comment. If it's not, it is really just sad.