I've been working on a small constellation of web applications lately. One thing that unites the efforts is somewhat of an ethos around development that involves simplicity, functionality and also privacy in the sense they are devoid of any design intent to track users or demand any account setup or login etc.

I'm personally sick of all of that crap including the creeping surveillance, the exploitative personal data tracking and monetizing to the frustrating and annoying UX that comes with two factor authentication, password uniqueness gymnastics, captcha's and all of the infrastructure and BS. Just fucking tired of it all. I have spent a lot of time thinking about this and have built it into my own side-project design ethos.

Browsers are so powerful now and JavaScript support is so stable that amazing applications are possible. My experience tells me that most people are unaware of just how powerful the browser is as an application platform. So as AI has come along and enabled some acceleration around some of the blockers and bottlenecks in designing, developing, and deploying personal apps I have been playing around with some really interesting apps and having a lot of fun doing it.

For the most part I have built these apps for my own personal use. If anyone also finds value in using them please enjoy.

The apps lean heavily on device specific data persistence capabilities like A lightweight, browser-based tool for creating animated SVG diagrams and storyboards. What it does

Built with Vue 3 and SVG. Contributions and feedback welcome. indexeddb and sqlite and primarily Vue/Vite/Node, with the goal to keep the library dependencies as lean as possible.

The first of the apps is something I call Diagrammer and can be found at: diagrammer.ca. It is a simple vector drawing tool for creating basic diagrams for presentations and web pages. It was partial inspired by the work done on exalidraw and the original vector drawing tools in Office '95 back in the day.