NaNoWriMoAtGlance

Windows 8.1 (both phone and desktop) briefly supported Live Tiles driven by refresh/pull of a tiny bit of metadata you could easily add to the HEAD section of a webpage. If a user bookmarked that page to their Start Screen, Windows would poll that page every so often (IIRC as often as once every 30 minutes) and the user would see the notification eventually. It was a neat way to run very basic scheduled tasks. [1] I wish something similar had become more common. I understand why all the platforms are focused on push notifications rather than pull notifications, but it's so much easier to write a bit of HTML/XML templating than to write anything with a PWA ServiceWorker and the Push Notifications API. [1] The one app I built during that brief time was to poll NaNoWriMo for count API updates. It's a really simple app and was easy to customi

It's NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) [0] time again. There have been some HN submissions over the years where people have posted NaNoWriMo-related software projects thay've made, like daily word counters [1], [2], ways to share progess [3], etc. Any HNers doing their daily 1667 words? If so, what are you writing about? Do you have a NaNoWriMo strategy? Are you using any interesting tools? [0] https://nanowrimo.org/ [1] http://www.amelyn.com/nanowrimo/nanowrimo_v2.htm [2] https://github.com/WorldMaker/NaNoWriMoAtGlance [3] https://tablo.io/communities/nanowrimo

Reminds me of how a couple years back I wrote a simple django site for Windows 8.1 Live Tiles to show word counts (from the NaNoWriMo API) and daily goals. https://github.com/WorldMaker/NaNoWriMoAtGlance I haven't ran it in recent years, but I'd think it would still work with Windows 10 with maybe only a few updates.