Post #916507

2026-04-02 22:16 UTC

Well, I just came out of an intensive three day hack session and it appears I made a thing: https://bc.bodil.lol/ I'm not saying it's a gaming calculator, but it's damned useful for running the numbers in that kind of game. I guess most people scratch that itch with a spreadsheet, but my programmer brain obviously feels much more at home with a text editor and a bit of syntax, and that's what this is. A spreadsheet for nerds. It's a pure client side web app, built on top of MathJS, so it does units, functions, trigonometry, matrices, etc out of the box, and CodeMirror, which reminds me I have to put the Emacs keymap in. No React, no Tailwind, no slop, just carefully hand crafted browser tech and enough CSS to make you ill. Works on Firefox and Chromium and almost certainly not Safari. Please enjoy.

Replies (7)

@ryanprior@mastodon.social 2026-04-02 22:18

@bodil calling it bc is inspired. Lovely contribution!

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@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-02 23:14

@bodil when you call it a spreadsheet, does that mean that stuff recalculates when you modify the inputs?

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems 2026-04-06 21:48

@bodil i'm getting index.js:23 Uncaught ReferenceError: Temporal is not defined at cs.makeIndex (index.js:23:72) at An.withIndex (table.js:132:50) at db.ts:22:6 on Chromium 143.0.7499.169 (Official Build) built on Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) (64-bit)

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@mcc@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 21:52

@bodil fantastic! I have been wanting a web app with exactly this feature set

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@timbray@cosocial.ca 2026-04-06 21:55

@bodil Can confirm no dice on Safari.

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@amy@sk.girlthi.ng 2026-04-06 22:25

@bodil@social.treehouse.systems can confirm safari does not enjoy i have many times wanted a basic but featureful math thingy so this is ideal (also what’s the best tree to plant in beaver game)

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@twipped@twipped.social 2026-04-07 18:32

@bodil are the multipliers on wheat et all the amount produced after refinement plus cooking? That feels like it would reduce their efficiency

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