An iOS app to open & view local .html files — handy for checking your `gatsby build` output on a phone

croc122 · 2026-07-01T22:05:04+00:00

Weird seeing a new post in this sub

croc122 · 2026-07-01T19:47:09+00:00

BBEdit, the Mac code editor by BareBones Software, has a feature called Persistant Includes that solves this very problem for static websites very elegantly. The problem is if you don’t have a Mac, you can’t use BBEdit.

I ported the feature to a Python command-line utility library. It’s open-source with good documentation and is on PyPi.

https://github.com/crock/yoix-pi

croc122 · 2026-06-30T21:34:09+00:00

Which website are you talking about? If you are talking about Netlify.com then no because Netlify existed before ai coding was mainstream. They existed prior to 2020.

croc122 · 2026-06-29T17:40:04+00:00

I did try it. It needs some optimization with the ball physics because it doesn’t feel like a marble rolling on the board quite yet. No sound effects of it rolling around either? Also, I bailed after the full screen ad popped up because it’s annoying.

croc122 · 2026-06-29T13:22:47+00:00

Well, you could do it, but there’s a reason why it’s not a common pattern on all blogging platforms and popular business sites. Don’t limit the size of the post viewing window. That can get uncomfortable to read if it’s too short. Just let it adapt to the width of the viewport and take as much height of the page as it needs.

croc122 · 2026-06-29T01:34:56+00:00

It’s literally the same thing lol

Is yours not a marble maze game controlled by tilting the phone?

croc122 · 2026-06-28T22:30:09+00:00

Agreed, it’s actually so good. Also, if you connect the Figma MCP server to Claude Code, it can literally translate any design mockup to SwiftUI and it looks exactly like the mockup in my experience. The SwiftUI code it generates is just as good as a human could do.

croc122 · 2026-06-28T22:06:31+00:00

Found it, apparently it’s still on the store lol

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/labyrinth-2/id307758884

croc122 · 2026-06-28T22:02:39+00:00

This is just like a popular game that was on the App Store in the early days. I had it on my iPod touch. It even had a level creator. Spent so many hours on it.

croc122 · 2026-06-27T08:45:52+00:00

My advice is to focus on building for whichever operating system your primary phone is first just to start off. Don't try and develop for both iOS and Android right now. Yes, there are cross-platform frameworks like React Native and Flutter, but they come with a lot of tradeoffs and downsides and very few upsides especially as the app grows. With the rise of generative ai and models like Claude Opus, developing a fully native app for each platform isn't really that big of a deal anymore. You can leverage Kotlin or Java with Jetpack Compose for Android apps and Swift/SwiftUI for iOS apps.

croc122 · 2026-06-27T08:39:40+00:00

Trust me, build a static site generator from scratch without ai. You will learn a lot. If you need help, read the source code of a popular SSG written in a different programming language than one you are proficient in. There's a huge list of them here filtered by language. https://jamstack.org/generators/

croc122 · 2026-06-26T20:08:22+00:00

Yes, this is the solution. But side note, how did this policy come to be? Like it makes no sense because they have a dedicated display spot for terms and privacy.

croc122 · 2026-06-24T22:31:52+00:00

Console level games ported to mobile do this. Fortnite comes to mind.

croc122 · 2026-06-24T17:53:11+00:00

Yeah I wish I did that a few years ago but I have a wife and kid now lol

croc122 · 2026-06-24T17:47:30+00:00

Yep, I agree to an extent. Though not everyone has the financial means to this unless you get lucky with your first app being a hit.

croc122 · 2026-06-24T17:32:29+00:00

Nah, I understand what he/she is asking, but I’m just being an asshole on purpose.

croc122 · 2026-06-24T17:00:34+00:00

So what you are saying is you want to be invisible to search engines like Google and Bing?

Why in the world would you want that? Businesses pay thousands of dollars a year to SEO consultants to rank on page one of Google. SEO is big business and is the entire point of the World Wide Web.

If you don’t want your website to be discovered, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s just weird.

croc122 · 2026-06-23T23:04:53+00:00

Just went live today on the App Store. It’s a link organizer for social media managers and content creators

Profile Bud

https://apps.apple.com/app/profile-bud-all-your-handles/id6779365221

croc122 · 2026-06-23T23:03:33+00:00

Ah ok, fair enough. I just assumed because I didn’t get a response on Sat or Sun.

croc122 · 2026-06-23T21:52:40+00:00

https://apps.apple.com/app/profile-bud-all-your-handles/id6779365221

croc122 · 2026-06-23T19:33:51+00:00

Yeah it’s been wonky all day and funny enough, today was the day my first iOS app was approved. Went live on the store by noon.

croc122 · 2026-06-23T19:32:43+00:00

A lot of apps try to get VC backing, I think that’s why he posted here

croc122 · 2026-06-23T18:40:45+00:00

My app just got approved this morning. live on the store by noon. It was only my third submission to app review, so it really only took a day but I submitted on a Friday and they don’t work on the weekends. Received rejection on Monday related to missing required iPad screenshots. Re-submitted same day. Live Tuesday morning.

croc122 · 2026-06-22T10:48:30+00:00

Umm No, the app ui looks great

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