[myfonj]

I found typing DataURIs in the location bar to be the "primitive technology" meditation analogue of crafting stuff from flint.

In the spirit of "craftsmen should make their own tools," I've started making an "HTML sandbox" editor with live preview [1] this way, to avoid having to type everything in the URL. It has been fun, and I use it literally daily. It has limited features (no syntax highlighting, for example), but it's super fun to craft that tool in itself.

I dare to bet it has the fastest startup among similar tools. When launched through a keyword "search" bookmark to "seed" the initial content into it, it probably has the fastest "from idea to looking at the outcome" user story of them all. For example, if I have a whim to see whether my browser still can do <blink>, I (alt+)enter "s <blink>foo" into the URL bar and bam, have it loaded, displayed, and can continue editing it in a multiline editor (well, simply a textarea).

[1] https://gist.github.com/myfonj/c8ce74bf549e19600026ce9022388...