It’s an interactive slide show, but it also has forced the user into the CLI context, where they are likely to already bring a different type of attention and focus than if they were reading the exact same set of instructions in a markdown file somewhere in the org’s repos. Not necessarily better or worse, just different due to simulating the experience of a CLI tool as a mechanism for prompting the user to take certain actions.
Crucially, the presentation constrains the user's progress to a linear sequence of actions, which makes it straightforward to eventually make some steps actually do work automatically or semi-automatically. If you started with a markdown checklist or a powerpoint slide deck for presenting the same information, the form-factor would not provide linearity and would not invite further automation.
I just threw this together this week for a friend to keep track of medication compliance and I want to test prose-base flagging of journal entries if a user may need medication adjustments or impending mania/depression.
I wanted a HIPAA compliant PWA that was HTML + js + CSS, but I am not a web developer and wasted a lot of time relying on Google and AI that "service workers are totally the way, dude".
Service workers require http[s] "domain" or something so I ditched that idea and implemented a 30 line discord bot in node. It writes JSON for alarms and journal entries.
It isn't what I wanted, but my friend gets a beep to take their medicine and they reply "took it" in the morning and journal at night. I had then make a private channel on their own Discord server and they just journal them there. I figured it would be really easy to export for my experiment.
P. S. Timezones suck I am not dealing with it, so this isn't a product. I actively dislike development, probably because I keep messing with new languages to more efficiently (read faster and less effort on my part) solve specific problems.
