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Ask HN: your one-off HTML applet tailored to personal use?
I recently had to frequently log stuff with my phone while outside, so I wrote a ~30 line HTML form that is just an input box and three buttons (Timestamp/Newline/Clear) that lets me quickly log a message.
Turns out that making it into an offline PWA is just a matter of adding a short manifest and a sw.js for cache requests, and two lines of localStorage for persistence, so now I have a trusty app on my phone that’s the digital equivalent of a carpenter’s self-crafted ugly-but-works shop tool.
It felt good that hand-rolling a barebones HTML app is actually so easy, giving me a new appreciation for the webstack if you don’t overcomplicate it into a car made from Legos.
What are some of your tailored-for-personal-use hacky toolets that leverages a minimal use of vanilla webstack?
- 4684499 1y agoI once needed to play three videos simultaneously to find an easter egg hidden in them. As I'm not familiar with video editing and don't have any professional tools, I ended up embedding three videos using a dozen of lines of HTML with basic controls and some dirty CSS tricks using devtools to uncover the message.