I wrote a similar app when mathbin was shutting down. It allows about 1500 characters of mathjax-displayed notes. [1]
Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
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#62I really like this from a privacy point of view. So much so that I'm thinking about adding a purely URL-storage solution as an option in my https://kraa.io editor.
From a privacy point of view how is it any better than just using a local, native text editor?
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#63Re: Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
#64Funny how I made almost exactly the same but for maps. I needed a way to share a link to a map, with drawings and the ability for the receiver to see their own location on the map. Annotated screenshots solves the first but not the second. Vibe engineered this, with many of the same ideas as OP. Took an evening. Just in time apps for one specific use case is a thing. And because it's so cheap to make and can be hoste…
> Vibe engineered
While I'm all for vibe coding as appropriate, there's a lot of humor to be found it calling it engineering. :D
Re: Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
#65Funny how I made almost exactly the same but for maps. I needed a way to share a link to a map, with drawings and the ability for the receiver to see their own location on the map. Annotated screenshots solves the first but not the second. Vibe engineered this, with many of the same ideas as OP. Took an evening. Just in time apps for one specific use case is a thing. And because it's so cheap to make and can be hoste…
Is this open source?
Re: Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
#66Funny how I made almost exactly the same but for maps. I needed a way to share a link to a map, with drawings and the ability for the receiver to see their own location on the map. Annotated screenshots solves the first but not the second. Vibe engineered this, with many of the same ideas as OP. Took an evening. Just in time apps for one specific use case is a thing. And because it's so cheap to make and can be hoste…
> Vibe engineered While I'm all for vibe coding as appropriate, there's a lot of humor to be found it calling it engineering. :D
Fair. Though it seems that half of engineering is just giving a respectable name to whatever actually works.
Re: Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
#67Something similar by Eric Wastl (of Advent of Code fame): https://topaz.github.io/paste/
Re: Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
#68I really like this from a privacy point of view. So much so that I'm thinking about adding a purely URL-storage solution as an option in my https://kraa.io editor.
From a privacy point of view, you might not want to use textarea.my since it includes some tracking bits at the end:
Re: Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
#69Per the spec [0], a URL can hold at least 8,000 characters. > It is RECOMMENDED that all senders and recipients support, at a minimum, URIs with lengths of 8000 octets in protocol elements. Note that this implies some structures and on-wire representations (for example, the request line in HTTP/1.1) will necessarily be larger in some cases. Mainstream browsers support at least 64,000 characters [1], and Chrome suppor…
Chrome limit is 2MB, Firefox is 1MB, WebKit is no limit. Here is the Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky: - https://medv.io/goto/crime-and-punishment-by-fyodor-dostoevs...
Interesting, in Firefox mobile (actually fennec) if I tap the address bar, I get an empty text box.
EDIT: actually I can edit the URL, but it takes a while to load.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Vibe engineered While I'm all for vibe coding as appropriate, there's a lot of humor to be found it calling it engineering. :D
Fair. Though it seems that half of engineering is just giving a respectable name to whatever actually works.
For software, but that's a well trodden path at this point. I've seen a few projects that are actually "vibe engineering" outside of software on the 3d modeling side so the terms are confusing.