Eurovision 2024 Microsite
I’ve been saying things like “you should have a website” and “you should build
more”… and now I’m trying to follow that advice. I built a small Eurovision
2024 microsite here. It’s available on
github!
It contains two pieces, the site itself and a
small tool for scraping
the data from the Eurovision site.
The site itself is built with Eleventy, with all of the countries listed out
with separate
json files.
The styling is very basic CSS from open props.
The winner of this years Eurovision was Nemo with
The Code, which turned out to be
one of my favorite entries after seeing the staging and the pure amount of work
put into the performance. Give it a watch, Nemo is singing, rapping and some
kind of OPERA (!!) while holding themselves on a spinning platform.
This performance is the one I saw
live, and it was just… breathtaking.
I wanted to do more with it like make it a remixable
glitch site, but I’ll be entirely honest, this years
Eurovision was a mess. From
fake applause tracks
covering boos, to the very very popular Dutch entry being kicked out… it was a
mess.
If I had worked on this more, I’d have:
- Created a remixable verison on Glitch, so that anyone could create their top 5
and share them out - Added a section for scores after the show, after seeing them all live and on
TV. My opinion changed a lot!
This is the first year that I’ve attended a protest at Eurovision, with tens of
thousands of people outside of the venue protesting the Israeli entry (and her
backstage antics).
