Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes
alanagoyal.comi stan apple notes, so i built a new personal website to look, feel, & work just like it. it's fast, fully interactive, & can be navigated entirely via keyboard shortcuts. it was a lot of fun to build. i wrote more about the implementation in the linked page.
check it out! Looks nice, but scrolling is buggy on iOS Safari. There seems to be a nested scrollable area which doesn’t scroll properly when flinging up or down. thank you! fixed this :) I tried to click on the gear icon, thinking it was settings menu. It's not very clear that it's an icon associated with the post. good call - any ideas how to make that more clear? there is a tooltip on desktop but not mobile Why not move it to the left of the title, just like in the sidebar? good idea - playing around with it now! This is really cool. I didn't expect to be able to make my own note. I wondered what your top page would be, and it seems to redirect to /about-me. Did you try any other ideas for a top page? I guess that's an interesting problem since the Notes app doesn't have a top page. yeah it just redirects to the first note. i thought about having a welcome page but it took away from the apple notes feel. open to suggestions tho! I see a flash of white text on a dark background, then "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)." in black on the same very dark background.
Chrome on Win 10 this is probably happening if you're viewing a note that has been deleted. since i had 10000+ notes created on the day it launched i set up a pg_cron batch to delete empty notes that are >30 min old. if not, can you share the url you're seeing it on? thanks for letting me know! i added better error handling for this :) Very cool. I appreciate the breakdown of how you built this. thanks! just added to it about some of the perf and security changes i made after launching :) This is really cool. Thanks for sharing! Cool to see the balance between UX and security. I really like the UI! thanks! i wanted anyone to be able to create notes and be able to share them with others, so tried to come up with the most secure way to accomplish that :) On an older iPad it shows up as a blank page. Just FYI. oh no! looking into this. are you just on safari?? Yep. iOS 14 though >_< nit: the word "accessibility" is misspelled in your acknowledgments. Looks like a cool project! :face_palm: thank you! I love fun projects like this. <3 Love the unique idea! Now you just need a typeface with the distinctive alternate lower-case A :-) cool