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Lobste.rs·Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Lobste.rs - Tuesday, December 23, 2025

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01

The lightest notes app implementation in 111 loc

I wanted to see how far I could go building a notes app using only what modern browsers already provide – no frameworks, no storage APIs, no build step. What it does: Single HTML file, no deps, 111 loc Notes live in the URL hash (shareable links!) Auto-compressed with CompressionStream Plain-text editor (contenteditable) History support Page title from first # heading Respects light/dark mode No storage, cookies, or tracking The entire app is the page source. Comments

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Vigil - A clean, fast build watcher for Zig (inspired by Bacon for Rust)

I have been exploring Zig and wanted a project that let me practice concepts from Data Oriented Design, TigerStyle (links in the readme for context on those) and simplified approaches to manual memory management that have intrigued me the last couple of years. I wanted something wildly different to Clojure (my beloved daily driver) and Zig has been a fantastic tool to explore these concepts. I'm a big fan of Bacon (check it out if you use Rust) and wanted to have a similar tool for my Zig projec

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