I, too, love JavaScript so much that I gladly allocate any of my inexpensive RAM to programs running in a browser engine!

Who needs a UI framework when you can use good ol' DOM anyway!?

Jokes aside, much love to all of you JavaScript and TypeScript developers out there! <3

The artificial organism #ProjectMindMap keeps growing.

The wiring gets more complex.
Changes in its core can be felt instantly.

It's starting to feel... alive.

#buildinpublic

My prompt is not very optimized yet :)
It looks like this:

"Extract information from a given heading and notes to fill predefined fields. Each field has an ID, aspect, name, and expected type. ... Original idea: (name, notes) ... Fields to fill: ..."

Then I give it a JSON structure for output.

Thank you!

Honestly, I haven't tested many edge cases yet.

What helped me tremendously was setting the temperature to 0 in order to get consistent outputs.

I will test more as I continue developing :)

Currently fixing bugs and re-designing data structures.

Had a little fun letting the LLM guess the blanks in my role-playing character class inside #ProjectMindMap ⚔️🛡️🔥
#buildinpublic

Staying motivated when working alone is a great challenge.

What keeps me going?
Having a tool that assists me in organizing myself.

One that won't sell my personal data.
One where everyone remains in power over their data!

It won't be perfect, but it'll be honest.
#solodev #devthoughts

Huge milestone achieved!
#ProjectMindMap now runs in containers!
Now it can run anywhere without setup chaos. It just runs with the press of a button!
Feels like a big step towards making it usable for everyone! #buildinpublic

Anyone else noticed a big drop in spam mails recently?

Mine dropped from 50-100 mails/day to now ~6, somehow!

Since I was last here, the hype about "AI" or LLMs has really turned sour. And so do I have mixed feelings. In my daily life as a developer, #LLMs like #ChatGPT help me a lot. But I would never let it write my whole code base, nor would I share all my code with it. #Handmade is a new quality.

Hey, I'm back!
I know, it's been a while since I last posted. I took a longer break from #projectMindmap but I've continued developing!
Right now I'm "reintegrating" back into the Bluesky community.
Likely, I still have to find my way 😊
What's going on with you guys? How are you? What have I missed?

Ironically, I found a tool that styles your taskbar like WIndows XP, WHICH IS MUCH MORE COMPREHENSIBLE THAN WINDOWS 11! Talk about progress in the Windows world... 🙄

The new taskbar is really confusing compared to WIn 10. I used to have two rows - not possible anymore. Now it's hard to differentiate between fixed icons and open windows. (Not sure if you can tell from my screenshot.) And I've fully exhausted all options.

After long hesitation, I finally upgraded to Windows 11. Amazing! Every change is for the worse!

It's a really cool demo! I like it! Keep up the good work! I'm curious to see where it goes! 😊

That's one advantage of wiring ChatGPT into your app: It's really good at confirming your worth as a human 😄 So why not use it to generate test data that makes you feel good? 😉

Absolutely! I think that's one of the most tricky things when you're a solo dev: To not lose your motivation (and sometimes taking some fun detours) 😊
Do you have any other tricks to keep motivated?

Cool! Is this your app?

When you're the only dev on a project, so your app gives you emotional support.
#buildinpublic

Nevertheless, I can keep a thing or two, and it was a good learning experience 😊

My pain lies here:
There is so much logic in the frontend - rows are being split into sub-rows, then merged back again with their parent.
But what if I have another view? User shall have their own views, for their own use-cases.
They shouldn't handle data this clumsily...
#devthoughts

UI result - logic behind it needs re-think

Welp - I did it!
Dynamic rows and columns from JSON ✅ and it saves!

But then came revelation:
Even with solid planning, after hours of implementing, cracks appeared.
The frontend logic turned out way too convoluted.

Now I’m rethinking the whole concept...

How would you approach it?
#buildinpublic

Obviously, the code needs more love before it becomes ready to ship 😉♥

Checklist items live as JSON in the DB - but are unpacked into separate rows at runtime.
This allows filtering & sorting each entry individually.
Here’s the extraction logic, straight from the codebase:
#buildinpublic #devlog

Screenshot still lacks the checkbox column (WIP)

Two design decisions:
✅ Checklists won’t style their own cells – just ordinary rows
✅ Row types can add extra columns (like a checkbox or action buttons)

Result: uniform styling, dynamic functionality, and full filtering & ordering support.

For the nerdy stuff: 👇
#buildinpublic

One night later, the challenge becomes visible.
My internal API lets data types style their own table cells - that's a lot of freedom!
But as my last screenshot shows:
Freedom has a price. It can break layouts.
The battle: Freedom vs. Unity. Who will win?
#ProjectMindMap #buildinpublic

Took me a while to get started implementing this.
Had the idea for checklists for quite some time - but needed the right design.
Lots of time went into researching the best structure and storage format (think: DB & JSON logic).
I don't want quick hacks - I want a system I can build on
#buildinpublic

Screenshot of the new checklists feature

New feature! 🛠️

Checklists in #ProjectMindMap!

I know what you're thinking:
"Great, another ToDo list..."

But hey - turns out checklists are actually useful!
I use them myself to plan the next steps for the first public version of Project MindMap!

Stay tuned!
#buildinpublic #pkm #indiedev

Building #ProjectMindMap keeps teaching me new ways to approach design.
Every bug, every detour is a lesson in focus and resilience - and smarter problem solving.
I wonder - for other devs: what has your code taught you lately?
#devthoughts #buildinpublic

If you're a programmer, do you sometimes spin crazy tales of your code in your mind? Like there's this huge tale of "inclusiveness", how a "society" of values may cherish unfolding themselves into multipe rows vs. one big brute chunky single value in one row... #devthoughts #buildinpublic

Let me tell you a joke.

Putting program settings under "File."

#devhumor