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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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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 28/05/2025

haha yep i had the same thought when trying out your scrapp. we have a design that solves this, but haven't implemented it yet. it's high on the list of obvious shortcomings, and your feedback makes me wanna fix it :)

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 28/05/2025

the browser tab will now have the name of the scrapp instead of just "Scrappy"

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 28/05/2025

very nice! may i put this in the Scrappy gallery?

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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 · 28/05/2025

panning the canvas with two fingers on a trackpad will no longer trigger chrome's swipe-to-go-back gesture.

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 28/05/2025

hahaha that's super helpful actually. thanks! iCloud passwords is what i rely on (even though having to input the stupid 2FA code every time i restart my computer has gotten old fast)

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

they are still supporting it with bug-fixes and chromium updates, right? i don't really feel a need for more features. i suspect i'll end up with zen for snappiness and arc for my chromium needs please let me know how you find zen!

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

maybe there's a really good, hidden reason they don't

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

scrapps open visible at the center of the screen. before they could sometimes open at the edge of the viewport, which was confusing.

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

a bar at the top that lets you navigate to your list of scrapps, rename your scrapp, and share your creation more easily. (note to self: next time you launch something, make sure there's a prominent share button from the start)

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

basic touchscreen support! You can now pan and zoom and tap buttons on your phone or tablet. many scrapps make the most sense on a phone, so Scrappy felt incomplete without at least basic support.

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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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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 21/05/2025

we'll be sharing more in the coming days. anything in particular you'd like to see?

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 20/05/2025

would love to see your ideas! and thanks, it's really helpful to learn what you are missing :)

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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...

dropserver.org

Dropserver Personal Application Server

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

can't wait to see what you make!

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

We believe that a prototype is worth more than a thousand mockups, so not only can you read about Scrappy — you can try it yourself! Read more here, try it, and please share any thoughts or scrapps you make with us :) pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/

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

We've been driven by - a wish to democratize computing, which Hypercard promised but never realized - a curiosity about how modern canvas UI, realtime collaboration, and effortless link sharing changes that promise - a frustration with the incredible complexity of the modern software stack

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

A few examples of scrappy little apps (we call them "scrapps"): - math practice for a elementary school kid - attendee counter to make sure you don't go over capacity at a venue - clock showing how much money a meeting is costing, ticking up every second All of these were made in < 30 mins.

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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

We've been curious about a world where small everyday problems — chore schedule, productivity timer, office inventory, etc — can be solved with just a sprinkle of computation on top of a shared document. Instead of finding a "app for that", make it yourself!

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

No need to think about persistence or syncing — that all works by default. Like a google doc or minecraft server, each app is like a shared little world.

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

The tool is an infinite canvas of dynamic objects. You attach small pieces of code to the objects to make them do stuff. This lets you build scrappy lil apps. Here's me making a simple counter.

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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

meme 2. meme 1 is "rotated", not transposed

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

nice! made me wonder if there's a corresponding visual/animation for the odds form of bayes rule

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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

it is the best LLM coding session i've had so far. coding agent gets a thumbs up for this kind of rough sketch work.

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

i like how the ui in Zed shows me each action the agent is taking and lets me review the changes

the log that the agent produces. it shows code snippets when editing code. "List directory contents" or "Read document-list.css" when performing reading actions.

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

i haven't really looked at the code in detail 🫣 i shudder at the thought of its quality. but because it is throwaway and pretty contained, i'm okay with the tradeoff.

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

it doesn't really understand that it can't see the visual result in the browser. even if i describe the visual bugs it doesn't get it. i've had better success asking it what places i should look at, and then just go fix it myself.

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

it sometimes tries to search the repo for some common word and blows past the context window limit and halts

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

an hour later of incremental changes i have this (i took those screenshots and wrote the descriptions, everything else is claude off of my prompts)

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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

@getmozi.bsky.social Ideas for how to make it useful before the network effect kicks in: - Let me post my travel plans as a widget on my website, or as bluesky posts/instagram stories, etc. - (opt in) Let me find strangers traveling to the same location. (h/t @akvilemarc.bsky.social)

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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

@weatherstrip.app is one of the few apps I pay a recurring subscription for. I will never go back to "partly cloudy". www.weatherstrip.app

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Weather Strip for iOS

Forecasts at a glance

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