mcteamster's comments

mcteamster · 2026-02-19T20:43:02 1771533782

The difference between $0.00 and $0.01 is infinite.

But I’m really curious how bad the free experience would have to become before people are open to paying a pittance?

parpfish · 2026-02-19T20:52:55 1771534375

The free experience on the site for every small town newspaper or tv station is horrific. Genuinely among the worst, least usable websites on the internet.

The problem is that the horrendousness doesn’t drive people to pay, it drives them to social media.

And a big part of this is that local papers consider their online presence secondary to print. So paying will get you a physical newspaper and unlimited access to the worst site in the world

gnatman · 2026-02-19T20:57:14 1771534634

OK but the difference between $0.00 and $0.01 is also 1 cent.

groestl · 2026-02-19T21:14:56 1771535696

And your data.

bee_rider · 2026-02-19T21:03:19 1771534999

Easier to just not be informed about local events.

mcteamster · 2025-08-18T09:35:37 1755509737

Been doing something similar with save files for my game. Line 1 is "<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><script>const rawData =" and line 2 is all the state.

Then the save button downloads document.documentElement.outerHTML with line 2 replaced by the current state. No server required.

https://github.com/mcteamster/white/blob/main/src/lib/data.t...

qingcharles · 2025-08-18T22:22:43 1755555763

I keep this bookmark in Chrome which lets me open an editor in a tab and Chrome maintains the state of the textarea even through reboots as long as you don't close the tab:

data:text/html,<html><head><title>Notepad</title><style>html,body{margin:0;padding:0;}textarea{padding:10px;font-family:Courier;font-size:16px;height:100%;width:100%;border:none;outline:none;}</style></head><body><textarea style="height:100%;width:100%;font-size:16px;padding:10px;"></textarea><script>document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0].focus()</script></body></html>

b2ccb2 · 2025-08-19T14:36:29 1755614189

You can get rid of the JS by setting the autofocus[1] attribute to the textarea.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

qingcharles · 2025-08-20T07:10:31 1755673831

Thanks, I trimmed it down to this:

  data:text/html,<title>Notepad</title><textarea autofocus spellcheck=0 style="position:fixed;inset:0;padding:1em;border:0;font:monospace">

qingcharles · 2025-08-20T00:55:45 1755651345

Thank you, I'm going to try this.

fallinditch · 2025-08-18T18:37:05 1755542225

I am trying something similar: I made game as a standalone HTML file with a feature that allows users to edit text and save as a new local version. Works on my phone (Android with Brave) but not on iOS with Safari.

mcteamster · 2025-08-10T06:30:41 1754807441

Depending on how "approximate" is acceptable, I've found that using timezone names can be a good proxy for location. As most users have their timezones set correctly it's more consistent and private than IP or GPS.

I've made a library for my own use cases that does this (https://github.com/mcteamster/virgo), but it's also pretty straightforward to parse the city/state name out of the timezone and look it up somewhere.

mcteamster · 2025-07-25T23:50:34 1753487434

Thanks! Great question - the heatmaps and traces really help with refining gameplay UX like identifying dead click areas and reducing the number of interactions for popular functions.

Of course any client-side RUM can only give partial insights. Always open to hearing any direct feedback suggestions or improvements.

mcteamster · 2025-05-19T11:08:40 1747652920

Love it, especially your latest post on bringing back fun websites. Bought a block on ‘Stack your project’!

naeemnur · 2025-05-19T11:23:05 1747653785

Thank you :D

aa-jv · 2025-05-19T11:33:23 1747654403

Would be cool if the URL's were clickable, site-wide, though ..