Building the Unicorn-themed app of my dreams with TinyJS
Everyone likes to talk about light versus dark theme while no one is addressing the real need for our users - a proper unicorn theme. I mean, take a look at this beauty:
Hi, I'm Raymond Camden 👋
I'm a developer advocate who loves the web platform, APIs, AI, and basically just anything involving code. I love to write about technology and share that with others. I've got fun stuff to show you and I'm so happy you're here!
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Adding a PDF Display to Eleventy
This will be a short one. I've talked about embedding PDFs on web pages for probably close to ten years now. Blame Adobe. Blame me being a nerd and finding this stuff interesting. Blame whoever. While I've blogged about the topic, I've also actually done that on my site here, in a variety of different ways.
Links For You (10/19/26)
Wowza - I'm like nearly a month late on this. This is where I'd try to come up with a good excuse, but I think if I just randomly point around at things and said... "life" most of you would completely understand where I'm coming from. It's been a difficult few months for myself, and for nearly every person I know. This week I'm going to try focus on the positive and the things that make me smile, and I hope all my lovely readers can do the same!
Generating PDFs from Word Templates with officeParser
I've been singing the praises of the officeParser library for a while. It's an open source JavaScript library that can parse, extract, and convert between PDFs and Office documents, as well as OpenOffice, ePub and more. My demos have all focused on client-side examples but obviously the library would work great in a server side workflow as well. I haven't worked at Adobe for years now, but I still get strangely excited working with documents. I'll just add that to the long list of reasons I'm a big nerd.
Adding Google Auth to TinyJS
A few days ago I posted about my experience playing around with TinyJS. This is a very light "web to desktop app" platform for - well - building desktop apps. Its simplicity and similarity to PhoneGap (at least for the desktop) has got me interested in seeing what I can build with the project. One of my ideas would be improved with a login system so I naturally looked into adding a "Login with Google" feature. While this was mostly straightforward, I ran into some oddities and figured I'd share it here.
Tiny Apps with TinyJS
About a year ago, I was still running my live stream (Code Break) and my final three streams all covered one topic - building desktop applications with non-native code. I covered Tauri (HTML on the front, Rust on the back) and Flet (all Python). Recently I came across another option, tinyjs.
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