To Be GNU/Hurd

I recently renewed my netflix account and was interested in what netflix facebook applications existed. It turns out that there are two up there now, but they are both hideously ugly. Each application displays a rather large cover image along with a full description for each movie in your queue. As you might imagine this takes up a lot of real estate on the page, and is more information than most people are interested in.

To remedy this problem I decided to make a smaller netflix application that only shows the covers of your queue, highlighting the movies that are currently being viewed. I got a basic version working, but I have to say that the facebook api is one of the most over-engineered pieces of shit I have ever worked with. It really shouldn't be that complicated to get a tiny piece of dynamic HTML to display on a profile. Instead they decided to reinvent javascript, SQL, and HTML.

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