Readit NewsLove the demo!
Thanks a million!
Please, whatever you’re doing, hire a professional.
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I scrolled down. Then I scrolled up. Then I scrolled down. Then I scrolled up. Then I was ready to leave so I hit the back button. Only instead of that happening, I was scrolled up, and down, and up, and down, and up, and then I could leave.
Taken to the extreme, I think it becomes more apparent which choice is better.
Yes you’re right. I’ll switch that off.
Not knowing whether a tap shows more text or moves to the next slide makes me super anxious. Would love an indicator whether there's more text for the slide in the next tap.
If you press “set” on a keyboard or tap the screen with three fingers a settings screen appears that lets you switch on a position indicator.
Sorry it’s inducing tension but that’s sort of the point. To build suspense in the story. It’s based on Robin Sloans tap book idea.
https://www.robinsloan.com/fish/
The whole project is an attempt to allow people to make worthwhile digital artifacts easily.
Thanks for taking a look.
In step 46 of the demo walkthrough, the little popup bubble says "Viola!.". The word you're looking for there is "Voilà!" (minus the extraneous period)
Seems like an interesting project and I can see the appeal to markdown aficionados (me among them, although I don't currently have much need to do presentations)!
No, I specifically meant to say tiny violin.. :)
Thanks for taking the time.
You can use it to produce any kind of multimedia webpage. Some restaurants are utilizing it by printing out the QR code it produces so customers can see their menu.
I think the main page overlay needs 100dvh rather vh unit to account for mobile devices with navigation bars
That was something I went back and forth on and eventually decided that there was too much negative space when the browser chrome disappeared but all the content is accessible, or should be anyway. If not please let me know. Thanks.
Trying the demo. Seems broken. Type text and nothing shows up:
That’s a bug. You have to be logged out. Apologies. I’ll fix it as soon as I get time.
"NOOOOOOOO!!!! You can't just use an LLM to write an auth library!"
"haha gpus go brrr"
In all seriousness, two months ago (January 2025), I (@kentonv) would have agreed. I was an AI skeptic. I thoughts LLMs were glorified Markov chain generators that didn't actually understand code and couldn't produce anything novel. I started this project on a lark, fully expecting the AI to produce terrible code for me to laugh at. And then, uh... the code actually looked pretty good. Not perfect, but I just told the AI to fix things, and it did. I was shocked.
To emphasize, this is not "vibe coded". Every line was thoroughly reviewed and cross-referenced with relevant RFCs, by security experts with previous experience with those RFCs. I was trying to validate my skepticism. I ended up proving myself wrong.
Again, please check out the commit history -- especially early commits -- to understand how this went.