Lasse Holmgaard Bomholt
Software Engineer at iPaper.
Aarhus, Denmark.
Selected public projects:
final.zip
I cannot count the number of times that I've wanted to quickly transfer a file, and gotten hit with "File type not supported", "You don't have enough space", "The file is too big" or simply just "Cannot upload file". I'd always sit there in a mix of awe and frustration, and wonder how it's so hard to just transfer a goddamn file without paying money or creating an account. I channeled this frustration into a website called final.zip, that allows you to transfer a file P2P: No logins, no file size limits and no paywall. I'm don't store any of the files, which is how I can offer no size limits without drowning in hosting costs ($6). The name is inspired by the never-ending cycle of naming files 'final.zip', 'final_v2.zip', 'final_v2_real.zip'.
Box Breathing Guide
A breathing tool written in plain old HTML+CSS+JS. I discovered the box breathing technique and thought of an interesting way of visualizing it without any JS, so I made the site and posted it publicly. To my surprise, some people started using it, so I improved the site with various settings and a service worker so it can be installed as an offline app.
Tier List Creator
I created this out of frustation with existing tier list sites, which don't have proper drag-and-drop and upload of images by pasting. It's written in Svelte and contains some fun image processing algorithms for extracting connected components.
HTMX Playground
HTMX can be thought of as a small extension to HTML, providing extra attributes that allow AJAX and interactivity without writing JavaScript. It's created by Carson Gross, a teacher of compilers and databases at Montana State University, and I've been a big fan of his essays and his library ever since I discovered it. After getting curious about the lack of any online playgrounds for it, I started making one. I finished the project and put on it on HackerNews where it got some buzz from a lot of people and even the creator himself.
The 3D title on this site
I've always been interested in 3D and while on vacation I decided to challenge myself by writing my own library from scratch. It has no dependencies, no bundling and just writes pixels to a 2D canvas. I think it contains some pretty neat ideas, such as strongly typed matricies and was loads of fun to work on.