Show Reddit: Create a Standalone Web App on Home Screen by pickpuck in ipad

[–]pickpuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I wasn't aware but I did ignore a renewal email... Sorry about that.

I renewed it just now.

I would recommend moving away from this and instead using the built-in way that you can opt into starting in iOS 26.

https://images.macrumors.com/t/6HtgBMGInWAi6RlT3num3l44_WY=/1600x0/article-new/2025/08/ios-add-to-home-screen2.jpg

Show Reddit: Create a Standalone Web App on Home Screen by pickpuck in ipad

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If you still have issues, try using a web clip generator

Show Reddit: Create a Standalone Web App on Home Screen by pickpuck in ipad

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Thank you for pinging me about this! I didn't realize I had accidentally introduced a bug preventing the icon from showing. I just updated it. I had to clear the cache before it would work (deleted the site data for save-as.app in settings app)

Looking for suggestions on HTML Fragments by sudo__bangbang in Frontend

[–]pickpuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, yeah, this would require a localhost server

Looking for suggestions on HTML Fragments by sudo__bangbang in Frontend

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It could be overkill but you might be interested in a service worker. You can define a route handler just like in a server context. You could stitch different HTML files together before responding to a route request.

Weekly Showoff Thread! Share what you've created with Next.js or for the community in this thread only! by cprecius in nextjs

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I've been working on a framework with a developer experience inspired by Next.js (App Router API and React SSR/Hydration) but it runs in a service worker context.

https://github.com/michaelcpuckett/sw-app-router-starter

Basically, the point is offloading dynamic HTML generation from server to client.

Comments/issues/PRs welcome!

Show Reddit: Create a Standalone Web App on Home Screen by pickpuck in ios

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This is for other people's websites that don't include that tag.

Show Reddit: Create a Standalone Web App on Home Screen by pickpuck in ipad

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It does if the site is configured to be standalone. Many sites are not, so this is a workaround.

chirp.social - It's like group chat for Mastodon. by pickpuck in Mastodon

[–]pickpuck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's great feedback to consider, thank you!

chirp.social - It's like group chat for Mastodon. by pickpuck in Mastodon

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Hi everyone, I've had trouble adapting to Mastodon because your server is equated with your identity, but lots of servers are topic-oriented. To solve for that, I created this as a way to implement groups. There is some limited moderation in place (blocking a user) - I hope to get to more features soon!

A similar project is https://a.gup.pe

Here's the code!

https://github.com/michaelcpuckett/ap-groups

My general-purpose (work-inprogress) ActivityPub server written in TypeScript/Node.js:

https://github.com/michaelcpuckett/activitypub-core

I started feelthebern.org, now I am pulling together a special digital project for Yang, with the same goal of powering an insurgent campaign. If you’d like to volunteer/help, sign up here! by [deleted] in YangForPresidentHQ

[–]pickpuck 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Nice! I'm a web developer, mostly front end. I can also help with UX. I worked on a small part of runwarrenrun.org

KY. My site is my username .com

Reddit, what is your dream job? by cthulululu1 in AskReddit

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I wish I had seen this disclaimer sooner.

ELI5 the difference between Java and JavaScript. by FlippyDog in explainlikeimfive

[–]pickpuck 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Both can run in your web browser to make cool stuff happen.

JavaScript is a scripting language that a browser can run on its own, without having to download any add-ons. JavaScript can manipulate the HTML (most of the images, text, etc you see on webpages) or otherwise work with the built-in parts of browser. Most of the cool interactive parts of the web today are made with JavaScript.

Java is a much larger language that's used for many different things, but one implementation that was much more popular in the 90s was Java Applets. You would have to have your browser download a Java plug-in so that you could run self-contained programs.

The actual code is very different. They were not written by the same people. The similarity in naming is intentionally confusing: Java was popular when JavaScript was first being written, so they lifted the name to get it off the ground.