“hardline” mike sugarbaker

@misuba

bald person w/ problems

he/him/gender is a fuck
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Painting a tunnel onto the inside of the fourth wall and running into it full tilt since 1994

“hardline” mike sugarbaker @misuba5/24/2023, 8:56 PM

anyway the web development is going great

I've elected to pay less attention to the more Notion-y and business-y use cases for this big shaggy mound of features I'm piling up, and refocus on Storyspace-as-a-service/Twine-y ends. Although I'll inevitably end up doing the web-publishing stuff because there's no possible utility for that really.

Making big-picture statements is of course ridiculous right now, as I attempt to get a nice, Cohost-esque tags-editing experience without the benefit of React. It's enraging that there isn't already a free web component out there that works the way I want. I can either tool around on this ambiguously-licensed SAP thing that's all in fucxking TypeScript, attempt to port the Downshift library that Cohost uses from React to vanilla, or just light my free time on fire and roll my own. booooooooo

Did you know: I've never written hypertext fiction unless you count eensy little fragments of Inform 7? Nonfiction all the way.

#fuck javascript #webdev #hypertext

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li (implied)@thricedotted5/24/2023, 9:58 PM

would tagify possibly meet your needs here? not a web component per se, but a progressive enhancement of an input field that seems pretty flexible.

“hardline” mike sugarbaker @misuba5/25/2023, 6:06 PM

This is indeed very good. How do you find out about these things

li (implied)@thricedotted5/25/2023, 8:18 PM

yes! i hope it works out in practice

in this case, i searched for "tag input web component", because i was pretty surprised that there wasn't something that wasn't specific to a framework in that niche. unfortunately... the duckduckgo results were pretty unhelpful, but google managed to do enough of a disambiguation on what i meant by "tag input" to surface tagify. i wish that this answer didn't involve googling, though 🙃

in many other cases, it's word of mouth — whether by throwing a question out to other devs, or shared in posts or comments like this one :eggbug-relieved: