Digital Toolmaker: Building Single-File Web Applications with GenAI (eBook)

Stop renting your software. This 73-page workshop manual teaches you to build your own web apps, tools that live in a single HTML file, run entirely on your device, keep your data out of the cloud, and never expire when a subscription lapses. The secret ingredient: working with AI as your journeyman coder, so you make the decisions while the robot swings the hammer. No programming career required, just curiosity and a text editor.

Inside: 26 chapters covering the complete workflow, from writing your first project spec to shipping a finished tool, plus a start-to-finish walkthrough build, hard-won lessons on testing, versioning, and data safety, a chapter on when NOT to use this approach, and two copy-and-paste appendices (a one-page standards checklist and a full project template) you can drop straight into your own AI conversations.

Beautifully typeset in a vintage scientific-catalog style with a clickable table of contents. Written by a licensed professional engineer and lifelong maker at the Green Shoe Garage workshop in Mountain Maryland.

Digital PDF, 6x9 format, readable on any device. No physical item will be shipped.