Home-Cooked Apps and the Temporal API
Hey friends,
It's always nice to have a long weekend! Hope y'all's was fun!
(Is y'all's a word? Second-person plural pronoun possessive...? 🤔)
Thinking Too Hard
I've been noodling this week on home-cooked apps, apps and little tools that you make, not for EVERYONE, but for a very specific problem and a very specific use. THIS is the web I love, the smol web, the tiny niches and wrinkles. I keep thinking about Novena, and some of the other examples, I've been inspired to scratch some of my own itches with tiny little apps.
I recently got tired of digging for scorepads for Skull King, the spreadsheet I made at first was cumbersome, especially to reset scores — so I made our own family digital score tracker for it. It's rough and small, but hey, it's home-cooked 🍳
Interesting Web Bits
- "You're probably not dumb..." is a lead-in to why pre-requisite knowledge is the key. It's also a FABULOUS conversation starter... 🌶️😏
- The Temporal API is going to change how we work with dates in JS 🙌
- A FASCINATING example of how weird/cool/strange the internet is: The Secret Inside One Million Checkboxes
- The CLI-nerd inside of me really enjoys this minimalist monospace design
- Every RadioShack catalog scanned and catalogued
- While I'm not sure I'd spring for this modular tablet based on the Raspberry Pi 5, I'm curious to see how the idea pans out. I like the IDEA of a open-by-default Linux powered tablet.