Patrick Weaver: Blog

I recently created Cranban, a local-first kanban board that stores the board’s data in a markdown file on your computer.

The original vision for the world wide web was a read/write medium.

Last year before HTML Energy's HTML Day in San Francisco I had the idea to iterate on some of my previous projects like Whiteboard Email, and make both an app that would do OCR on HTML, and a website to host truly “hand-written” HTML.

I have long been a fan of frontend-only websites, usually single-page apps, that are able to persist state in sharable URLs despite not having a database or a backend.

After learning a little bit more about web accessibility last year I had been exploring some of the less common HTML elements, and making changes to this website, like wrapping the text of the posts on this blog in <article> tags and adding a <main> tag in

In the Fall of 2020 I participated in a 12 week batch at the Recurse Center.

Like most of the world, I’ve been spending a lot of time at home lately.

Participating in a batch at the Recurse Center is something that I’ve thought on-and-off about doing since I found out about it (then called Hacker School) sometime between 2013 and 2015, but it just never seemed like the right time to leave my job and its

Earlier this week the NYC MTA released a new digital-first map.

I just finished my first week as part of the Fall 1 '20 batch at Recurse Center.