I've had similar issues with Reddit and Youtube. I ended up building https://limitphone.com, it's a blocker for Android which uses MDM so it cannot be bypassed. It comes with a default blocklist to block social media, and uses a timer system to delay gratification.
It's been a game changer for me personally and has slashed my screentime.
Couldn't agree more! This problem is severe for me, I ended building limitphone.com to lock down my Android phone so that I CANNOT bypass blocked apps (using mdm built-in to Android). It has a custom build of firefox that blocks in the browser that allows me to still watch a single youtube video.
I'm building a fork of firefox for android that blocks sites that I find addictive e.g. youtube.com, but allows wildcards: youtube.com/watch?v=* so I can watch an individual video. Then I block all other browsers at that operating system level using mdm in Android.
I'm running a hacky version on my phone and it's been surprisingly effective at stopping me from doom scrolling.
Totally agree. It feels like we've barely scratched the surface.
I'm working on a project where I'm experimenting with pretty obvious things like removing the annoying markdown syntax all the LLMs show you for a split second and smoothing out how it renders the characters to match your frame rate.
> I'm working on a project where I'm experimenting with pretty obvious things like removing the annoying markdown syntax all the LLMs show you for a split second and smoothing out how it renders the characters to match your frame rate.
I have a suggestion for the page you linked. The sample on the top page that shows it doing its thing, while it is useful seeing it in action, as a result of looping the example output it was a bit difficult to read. I would suggest extending the amount of time the loop lasts to give slow readers a little more time. An extra 3-5 seconds after it finishes output would be helpful from a mobile UX viewpoint.
This is really cool, I've been building a site to help build templated recipes with markdown and javascript and I'll definitely be using this when I transcribe recipes!
Start with the examples linked above, my recipes are also linked - you can remix them! If you have questions or need help with anything you can email me directly (email address on the site!)
At the moment you can't embed a recipe on your own site - but its something that makes sense if enough people wanted it!
Lockdown side project whilst I’ve been learning to bake!
I’m pretty forgetful so I wanted to be able to scale recipes up and down but still see ingredient amounts inline and hide information in collapsible panels.
I like to write my recipes in a minimal, military style so I can just execute them. Unfortunately I couldn't find a great tool to do this.
I built a powerful programmable recipe website. (WIP)
You write recipes in markdown, you can template in variables from javascript using handlebars.
Here is a recipe with a slider, it updates all the amounts in both the ingredients table and inline in the instructions themselves as you move the slider.
It's been a game changer for me personally and has slashed my screentime.