https://abulka.github.io/tags/hypercard-inspired/ Recent content in HyperCard-Inspired on Andy Bulka Hugo en Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:16:25 +1000 https://abulka.github.io/projects/websites/toolback/ Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://abulka.github.io/projects/websites/toolback/ <p>Toolback - a modern <strong>ToolBook</strong> spiritual successor: <em>book → pages → objects</em>, authored visually, scripted in <strong>plain JavaScript</strong>. If you ever built something in ToolBook or HyperCard, you&rsquo;ll feel at home — everything else is 2026.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s free, open source, and runs entirely in the browser — try it live at <strong><a href="https://toolback.netlify.app">toolback.netlify.app</a></strong>, or read the source at <strong><a href="https://github.com/abulka/toolback4">github.com/abulka/toolback4</a></strong> (topics: toolbook, hypercard-inspired).</p> <p><img src="https://abulka.github.io/projects/websites/images/toolback4-1.png" alt="toolback4 — authoring a book in the browser"></p> <p>Books are <strong>open data</strong> (a single <code>.toolbook.json</code>), editing is local-first (an autosave in IndexedDB keeps nothing hostage), and <em>Publish</em> produces one self-contained HTML file you can drop anywhere. No backend, no build step for your books, nothing to install for your readers.</p>