Erik V
flotes-dev.bsky.social
Erik V
@flotes-dev.bsky.social
Senior Software Engineer @ Cisco · BJJ Black Belt · Daddy

Independently building at night
- Flotes · Markdown Note-taking Built for Learning
- Tomatillo Timer · Study timer that syncs to music
- Better Commits · CLI to make conventional commits
First time writing Svelte Kit Remote Functions.

Used commands for cookie updates to save ssr layouts/preferences.

Sheeeesh, remote functions kick ass. The code is so much nicer now.
November 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
flotes.app now loads significantly faster.

On the technical side, this uses a PWA + IDB to mirror data specific to the user. While some data uses a stale-revalidate strategy, notes utilize timestamps to verify if they need synced. This significantly reduces bandwidth usage from large markdown.
October 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
You can now view/navigate backlinks in a graph in flotes.app. Typing [[ now searches across all notes (and notebooks).

On a technical side, this uses force-graph. Super easy to use and works via HTML 5 Canvas & d3-force. The backlink renderer is CodeMirror v6 autocomplete.

#svelte #d3
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM