Simon Willison • 12/27/2025

textarea.my on GitHub

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The article analyzes the textarea.my project on GitHub, a minimalist in-browser text editor that stores all data in the URL hash. It details several technical tricks used in its ~160 lines of code, including the `plaintext-only` contenteditable attribute, CompressionStream API for URL state, custom save handlers, and an elegant debounce function implementation.

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