It's finally live! Today I launch Slicklister to the world. Slicklister is a project that's been on the back burner for a long, long time.Slicklister is a list of links you find yourself regularly going to. Maybe it's your personal webmail, maybe it's your work webmail or ticketing dashboard. For me, it's a lot of news links, and special interest links I like to visit routinely. My page is here if you want to see what it looks like when setup: https://slicklister.com/tommygober (you can also just click on Links up at the top of Neodux).
The project started because I had a static HTML page that I kept on my local system, then moved to my webhost. I figured others might have a similar use-case, so I put all the links in a database and made the page pull those links for the user that link belongs to. Using a draggable interface through a JavaScript library Google first released well over a decade ago, I figured the UI can be simple and somewhat intuitive. It's not going to change the world, but I figure it might make someone's life a little more convenient. With most browsers sync'ing user profiles in the cloud, there may not be as much demand for the site as when I first envisioned it; but it's still something I use daily and set every personal web browser to use as the default page on start up.
So here we are. For the past 8-10 years, I've manually created links for myself, a couple family members, and a friend for years, but today you can create your own Slicklister page from the main Slicklister page and I even have a little script so you can enter your ZIP code to get started with some basic links relevant to your area like weather and movies. I hope some of you find utility in it and let me know if I need to add or revise any features!
Ok programmers and code monkeys, it's time for Programming Challenge 2. Nothing overly complicated this time. I was just messing around and thought you'd like this quick little brain teaser.