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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 22/06/2025

i made a lil app for printing a QR code that lets guests easily get on your wifi. put it on your fridge or wall. yes, there are already pages that do this, but i think mine looks better. enjoy pontus.granstrom.me/wifi-QR-code/

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wifi QR code

printable wifi QR code for your guests

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 21/06/2025

the best thing about having analytics on your website is finding people who link to you across the web. today I discovered this lovely piece by @korben.info. thank you for the writeup, korben! korben.info/scrappy-apps...

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Scrappy - La magie du développement fait maison | Le site de Korben

65 milliards de dollars, c’est le marché estimé du low-code en 2025. Incroyable !! Qui aurait pu se doutait que ça reviendrait en force alors que ...

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Gives a whole new meaning to “personal software.” Scrappy, by @jrcpl.us and Pontus Granström, is a research prototype that helps you make software for just you and your friends. Hat tip: @scripting.com. pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/ #software #scrappy #LittleApps

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make little apps for you and your friends

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Severák @severakcz.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Great app! I implemented this simple aspect ratio calculator - scrappy.jrcpl.us/s/dd73bf9f-d...

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 27/05/2025

it's been great to see so much support for Scrappy! ❤️ we intended to take a break from the project after launching it last week, but i got a boost of motivation to fix some low-hanging fruit that have been nagging me. i'll list what's new in this thread. go to scrappy.jrcpl.us to try for yourself!

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 19/05/2025

Maybe it's just the people I tend to follow, but I'm seeing more and more projects wanting to give people a way out of the big tech silos. DIY apps, servers (like my project dropserver.org) etc...

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Dropserver Personal Application Server

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John Chang @jrcpl.us · 19/05/2025

As a kid, I learned to program in HyperCard, a fantastic thing from Apple in the 1990s which empowered normal people to make homemade software. Last fall @pontus.granstrom.me started exploring and reinterpreting these ideas for 2025. Excited to share our writeup: pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 19/05/2025

New thing! @jrcpl.us and I have been exploring home-made software. We made a prototype of a tool for making scrappy little apps for you and your friends. pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/

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make little apps for you and your friends

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 13/05/2025

Event organisers, you don't need to do anything www.todepond.com/sky/event-or...

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Todepond dot com

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 13/05/2025

the coding agent looks at the error output from typescript. i assume it works much worse if using a language like javascript that doesn't have compile-time errors. i'm curious if the agent would benefit from having access to a debugger. i certainly do, and i'm better at thinking than claude

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 13/05/2025

vibecoding with @zed.dev's claude-based agent. first prompt gave me this -- fully working, but not great design-wise

A User Interface with a list of templates and a list of documents

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 10/05/2025

debuggers for teaching programming <3 i'm still amazed/appalled that so many people learn programming without a debugger 🤯😣

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 09/05/2025

I like the idea of mozi.app. It shows you when you and your friends are gonna be in the same location so you can make plans to meet IRL. But it suffers from the chicken-and-egg problem of needing more people to join before it's useful – which makes it hard to convince people to join.

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Mozi: A Place For Your People

Mozi is the best way to privately share with your friends where you are and where you're going.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 08/05/2025

Don't give good advice. Ask good questions.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 08/05/2025

Weatherspark is great for a bird's eye view of temperature. For everyday weather planning, I love the design and information density of Weather Strip. Shows temperature, cloud coverage, rain chance, rain amount, daytime/nighttime, wind velocity -- for both the next 24hrs and the next 10 days.

The UI of Weather Strip.

A graph showing detailed weather for the next 24h: temperature, cloud coverage, rain chance, rain amount, daytime/nighttime, wind speed and direction.

Under that a smaller, less detailed graph showing most of that data for the next 10 days.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 07/05/2025

@jrcpl.us Echoes some of our thinking on AI substrates (but here for video creation).

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 28/04/2025

a TV show at the pace of a "previously on". cut all the fluff

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 28/04/2025

All non-fiction writing should have exercises to try, questions to answer, experiments to run.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 26/04/2025

Pretty sure I can tell when The Volume is used. Harder to detect than a green screen, but there's just something off compared to real depth of field.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 26/04/2025

"Good question" is a sign that a conversation has gone off script and into new, uncharted territory. My favorite kind of conversation.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 25/04/2025

Noticing tweet-shaped thoughts is a skill.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 13/04/2025

Good communication in human relationships : good communication in computer networking. Paraphrasing the other person : ACK. Highlighting possible misunderstandings/incongruence : error correction. Leaving space for questions : flow control.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 13/04/2025

I'm partial to the handmade approach to software, where you build things yourself. - Build exactly what you need, no inessential complexity. - Learn how things really work, rather than how someone else's library works. Why, then, use frameworks like @react.dev or engines like @godotengine.org? 🧵

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 13/04/2025

Thinking about crowd dynamics and was reminded of Kids by @mariov.ch and @michaelfrei.io, a beautiful series of vignettes that flow into each other. playkids.ch

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KIDS

A game of crowds.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 12/04/2025

SDF as a puzzle game.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 10/04/2025

In 2025, the first 30-60s of every voice call is spent waiting for headphones to connect or disconnect, asking "can you hear me", or hanging up and calling again.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 07/04/2025

When sharing a draft for feedback, I make a copy for each reviewer. 1. So reviewers don't influence each other. 2. So reviewers feel free to make edits, add a paragraph, etc. 3. So I can keep revising while the comments roll in. Just had an idea for how to improve this workflow. (thread)

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 30/03/2025

Ever been half-way through a recipe and caught off guard by "add the minced garlic", wondering if you missed the step where you were supposed to mince it? And then you notice "3 cloves of garlic, minced" — in the _ingredients list_ ... pontus.granstrom.me/blog/recipes...

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Redesigning the Recipe: Ingredients or Instructions?

Instructions hiding in the ingredients list.

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qntm @qntm.org · 27/03/2025

C programmers be like "I know a place" and take you one element past the end of the array

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Jesse Grosjean @jessegrosjean.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Thanks! Hoping to reach gold standard level on document filtering in Bike 2. Still a ways to go, but here's what I have so far:

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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

entrepreneur 💯

a book on Amazon titled “how I made $290,000 selling books” priced at $290,000

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 28/03/2025

Today, @notion.com's inline code blocks seemed to behave a bit different than they usually do. Did they do it? Did they make it clear whether the cursor is inside or outside the block?!

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 28/03/2025

My sunglasses turn any sunny time of day into golden hour. This has an unreasonably large positive impact on my quality of life. Highly recommended.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 27/03/2025

Ever notice you keep jumping back and forth in a recipe to figure out how much you need of each ingredient? There's a simple fix, yet I don't see any recipes employ it. pontus.granstrom.me/blog/recipes...

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Pontus Granström | Redesigning the Recipe: Insufficient Amounts

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Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Remembering when an art collective installed a giant knitted pink bunny on a mountain in Italy so that people could wander over its surface as it slowly decayed 🎨: Gelitin, "Hase / Rabbit / Coniglio", Artesina, Piemont, Italy (2005)

An overhead shot of a huge pink rabbit on a pleasant mountainside

People walk on the surface of a huge knitted rabbit on a foggy mountainside. They are Lilliputian in scale on the giant pink limbs

An overhead shot of a giant knitted rabbit covered in snow

The decayed remains of a giant knitted sculpture on a grassy mountainside

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 26/03/2025

@gruber.foo: LLMs "learning" by putting prose in their context is like an amnesiac "learning" by tattooing messages on their arms. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

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Notification Summary Miscues

Link to: https://onefoottsunami.com/2025/03/20/erroneous-notification-summaries/

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 26/03/2025

Project management is a skill, not a job.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 26/03/2025

TIL: You can append `#:~:text=[Start of quote],[end of quote]` to a URL to highlight a quote on that page. Example from the Bluesky wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky...

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 18/03/2025

Speaker introductions are invariably boring and way too long, especially for talks at universities. But they serve an important purpose: the speaker doesn't have to introduce themselves and risk coming off as boastful.

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Gregor Samosa @watwa.re · 25/02/2025

I've put my foot in mouth to say a few words about a programming environment prototype I'm currently working on (that I'm quite excited about). More to come! youtu.be/AziAhVuiU3Q

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ħirba' - early prototype

YouTube video by Watware

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 07/02/2025

When cooking, I have to return to the recipe often, and somehow I never remember my place and have to scan through the recipe to find it. In part 2 in my series Redesigning the Recipe I discover a better way to write step-by-step cooking instructions. pontus.granstrom.me/blog/recipes...

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 21/01/2025

I never liked cooking by recipe. So I decided to redesign recipes to be more visual, more approachable and easier to follow. This project has been brewing for some time, but I haven't written about it until now. It'll be fun to get these ideas out! pontus.granstrom.me/blog/redesig...

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Pontus Granström | Redesigning the Recipe

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

python should've committed to the bit and made it so that + is add, ++ is multiply, and +++ is exponentiation

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 20/01/2025

Setting up a blog and noticing how easy it is to accidentally break URLs. Keeping them stable while allowing renames is tricky. No wonder why so many links rot.

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