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Guess what, I launched a web app last week! Almost two weeks to the day after I realized I was probably capable of doing it, which, huh, wow. Anyway, I sorta know node.js and SQL now.
SO, introducing Eardogger.com. It's a bookmarking service for gradually reading through serial archives, like long-running webcomics or other online stories. This isn't a wholly original idea, but Eardogger has a singular advantage over prior art: it's incredibly fucking stupid. (I know that sounds like self-deprecation but it's actually an outrageous brag.) It gives you a context-sensitive pause/resume button that works across all your devices, and then it basically stays the hell out of your way.
Free to use, and sign-ups are open; take it for a spin and start catching up on some stories you've been meaning to get to.
Well, and if I'm gonna shill a thing for reading webcomics, I should probably also tell people what's good. Here's eleven things I think are rad which have at least medium-hogwild backlogs.
It probably goes without saying, but this is some classic ADHD technology. There's a handful of webcomics I've been meaning to catch up on for years, and I never got around to it because manually keeping track of my place was too hard.
Like, it literally isn't!! Normal people manage just fine. (Well, either that or they don't read webcomics in the first place, but what kinda life is that.) But if I'm aware that something is pointless busywork, trying to make myself do it is basically the fucking apocalypse, such that learning two new programming environments over a couple weeks honestly seems easier. IDEK.
Regardless, it's been a fun project. I'm planning to eventually add a legit browser extension and maybe an iOS share sheet extension, but the existing bookmarklet interface is working well enough that tbh I'm more interested in reading some comics right now.