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Re:Notes on my Remarkable tablet on Sunday February 11, 2024 @04:12PM (#39338748)
Oh so this is just a pdf with links embedded so you can jump around? That's pretty neat (and a very slick UI for creating and buying them!)
Re:Building an interactive clickable map for my blog on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:24PM (#35431489)
Lol yeah there's lots of ways to do this - and I'm sure I'm breaking a bunch of formal web design rules. But eh, this figma workflow is easy and fun :)
Re:Laying Out a Print Book with CSS on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @08:33AM (#35245300)
What about something like bindery.js?

https://bindery.info/

Re:SQLite WASM: Something subtle in the browser on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:25PM (#34777821)
I love this writeup! I'm not a developer but am very interested in "small databases" on the web - there was a good discussion around my post on this on HN last week. The magic of small databases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34558054
Re:The Magic of Small Databases on Monday January 30, 2023 @09:51PM (#34590244)
Hey OP here, just wanted to say thanks for all the comments (goats and all). There's lots I still need to learn about (actual) databases as a hobby developer...

In the meantime I've made a big update to the Airtable with links to tools, examples and further reading:

https://airtable.com/shrYY94GrqVB4HUsi/tblHPrdomiPbLpod6/viw...

Re:Show HN: Electric Tables v0.2 – from the web to Google docs and bac... on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:12AM (#30245081)
Electric Tables V0.1 discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30089895

Electric Tables V0.2: https://tomcritchlow.com/2022/02/07/electric-tables-v2/

Show HN: Electric Tables v0.2 – from the web to Google docs and back again

Posted by topcat31 on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:00AM
from the show-hn dept.

Hey HN,I'm not sure why I won't let this idea go but here's another prototype experimenting with personal databases, small scale data extraction and web foraging...Electric Tables V0.1 was on HN a few weeks ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30089895V0.1 was fun and light-weight and it all worked - but because everything is stored in localstorage it wasn't collaborative... So I...

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Re:Show HN: Electric Tables – an experiment in personal databases on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:20PM (#30092050)
"We propose that web sites can be similarly augmented with other sophisticated data-centric functionality, giving users new benefits over the existing Web." - gonna check this paper out!

Reminds me also of this amazing project that also deals in structured data and tables: https://www.geoffreylitt.com/wildcard/

Re:Show HN: Electric Tables – an experiment in personal databases on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:49PM (#30091589)
Some use cases that I'm already using it for even in the limited state:

* Making topic-focused lists of articles. e.g. researching a particular topic just grab a bunch of URLs and stick them in a table

* Real estate research - grabbing a bunch of locations and adding them to a table, but where price and image are auto- grabbed (and adding notes)

* Making a list of gift ideas

* Making a running list of music I want to check out

These are mostly simple bookmarking use cases.

What I *really* want to be able to do is publish these lists (either as HTML or as JSON endpoints) and collaborate on them with others! But that requires building a server and login etc that all feels a bit beyond my coding skills.....

The video I made with Tella: https://www.tella.tv/ - very neat

Re:Show HN: Electric Tables – an experiment in personal databases on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:21PM (#30090397)
I'm not entirely sure that Electric Tables is quite so grandiose as all that but I appreciate the sentiment!

As for CSP - I'm not technical enough to really understand why it needs to exist or how it might be re-architected but as a hobby coder I love it when things are extensible / hackable and CSP seems to be a pain in the ass!

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