Mar 11, 2023
spell-cards.love

An incomplete flashcard app for testing spelling. We thought the kids might need it but quickly invalidated that hypothesis. Still useful as a simple Freewheeling App that shows off LÖVE's audio recording and playback capabilities.

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Feb 19, 2023
mastodon-unfurl.love

A graphical thread visualizer for Mastodon with panning, zooming and keyboard shortcuts for structured parent/child/sibling navigation. Click on a message to copy its link to the clipboard so you can paste it into the browser.

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Jan 18, 2023
broadsheet.love

A paginator that uses all available screen/window width by adaptively varying the number of columns of text.

video; 30 seconds

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Jan 16, 2023
bf.love

A toy interpreter for Brainf**k after reading this post by Laurie Tratt.

video; 30 seconds

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Dec 29, 2022
A year of freewheeling apps

Over the course of 2022, I've found myself gradually programming in a certain way that has been working really well. Here, let me show you a few examples, see if you can spot the pattern:

  1. A plain-text editor where you can also draw line drawings.

    Screenshot showing text interspersed with a line drawing covering the
whole window width (48KB)

    Minimal dependencies, easy to build, runs anywhere you can install apps without asking permission, thoroughly tested, designed above all to reward curiosity about its internals.

  2. A different way to draw polygons. Old way:

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Nov 27, 2022
LuaML

LuaML is a simple hierarchical box model for drawing shapes and text within rows and columns. Unlike HTML it has no syntax of its own; pages are just Lua literals. The core renderer generating shapes to draw is 50 lines of code.

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Aug 27, 2022
Bifold Text

As part of the Handmade Network wheel reinvention jam, I built an experimental UI for streamlining debug by print and allowing debug "prints" to include graphics.

audio/video; 4 minutes
repo

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Aug 15, 2022
pensieve.love

pensieve.love is the graph-based note-taking UI I've wanted for some time for my 10+ years of notes spanning 500+MB of text. A fork of lines.love. Still in progress.

video; 30 seconds
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May 1, 2022
lines.love

I've been working on lines.love, an editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings.

repo

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Feb 1, 2022
Teliva

At FOSDEM 2022 I presented Teliva, a platform for habitable and auditable text-mode apps.

video; 20 minutes

repo · guided tour

Some short demos about it:

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