Damerau-Levenshtein in the browser or: How I almost lost my mind!

Call me lazy, but when I’m prototyping something. I want to just be able to <script src=" a library quickly. I don’t want to npm, webpack or any such nonsense, if I’m just quickly winging it. Now most of the time it’s wonderful, I can just find a url from jsdelivr or some other CDN that has been minified and ready to be sourced. But sometimes you can’t. This is one of those times. ...

February 18, 2025

Speed Reader App

I have been using this great speed reading webapp called Spreeder. It prints out one word at a time to the middle of the screen. It prints them out at 300WPM by default (raising the average reading speed of 200WPM). It is very effective for short bursts at least. Link to Spreeder: https://www.spreeder.com/app.php?intro=1 I was wondering if I could dev this in one day (more or less). Here is the result: https://nake89.github.io/speed-reader/ ...

September 16, 2022

Javascript: Cronometer ratio changer

I created a script (with the help of my wife) which can change the ratio of foods. E.g.To make new food in Cronometer such as date paste, export “Dates” JSON from Cronometer. Then import the file. If the date paste is 15% water and 85% dates, then make the multiplier 0.85 and name it as you want. View at JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/nake89/2k78jxpt/

July 21, 2018