LLM, JavaScript, GitHub Pages, localStorage: A recipe for free apps anyone can use

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier today on Hacker News Scrappy made the rounds, with the explicit tagline “make little apps for you and your friends”. I always like to see new projects in this vein.

That’s why I’d like to outline my alternative approach, which

Works cross-platform and on mobile devices by default,
Doesn’t require any app store tomfoolery,
Has great uptime built in,
Gives you just enough data persistence to not get in your way, and
Is owned by you, forever.

This is the stack I used to build my diet checklist, which I keep as a little icon on my phone’s home page. Here it is:

Create multi-stage Anki card answers with HTML's
tag

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This works as of, at least, Anki 24.06.3.

According to the Mozilla Developer Network,

The <details> HTML element creates a disclosure widget in which information is visible only when the widget is toggled into an open state.

In standard web browsers, absent any CSS to the contrary, a <details> tag starts closed until further notice. Since Anki is basically a local web browser on top of a timer, this also works there.

Html on Andrew Quinn's TILs

LLM, JavaScript, GitHub Pages, localStorage: A recipe for free apps anyone can use

Create multi-stage Anki card answers with HTML's tag

Create multi-stage Anki card answers with HTML's
tag