Bah. I just lost all of the work that I did yesterday. I’ve been using a new text editor over the past few months, which I “vibe-coded” for myself using AI. I never really reviewed its code, and it’s worked fairly well so far. Yes, it is vibe-coded in the full sense of the word, and now the bill has come due. Today, a weird race-condition bug in the editor caused an open file to get deleted (along with my work).
I often write code on the go (for e.g. on bus rides), mainly prototyping ideas as single-page HTML/CSS/JS. I’ve used code editor apps as well as developer keyboards on mobile phones, but none of them really clicked for me. So I built something for myself: a simple browser-based code editor, optimized specifically for mobile devices. It lives at https://me.cmdr2.org/carbon (GitHub repo), runs entirely in the browser, and stores your work locally.