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pontus.granstrom.me
designer, engineer, teacher. art + technology + learning. stockholm, sweden. pontus.granstrom.me
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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

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

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!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

2025.05.22 edition is out 🍔 www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-22

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent scrapp.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

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/

submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

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/

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

"not everything broken is yours to fix" notashelf.dev/posts/curse-...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

maybe i should do this forest.quest/artifacts/lo...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Don't give good advice. Ask good questions.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment