Screenshot showing the clock displaying the time and stating "Daybreak's glow, the hour does show, forty-eight minutes past eight."

Hello, time?

TL;DR I made my first full-stack app - a clock that displays LLM-generated rhymes/poems in addition to a normal analog clock. Check it out at clock.angad.me . Background I’ve wanted to learn full-stack development with JavaScript for a while. I kept putting it off, however, as I was unsure where to start. A friend of mine recommended I start with Express.js . Hack Club also had a workshop regarding Express.js, JsonDB . I decided to follow this along with the Simple Clock workshop to make a web-based clock that displays rhymes similar to the Poem/1 . For some background, the Poem/1 is a clock that displays the current time as an LLM-generated poem or short rhyme. In the beginning, I imagined the project wouldn’t be too complex as there only needs to be a single endpoint to request a rhyme. It turned out to be a slightly more complex project, but still rather straightforward. ...

July 13, 2024 · 4 min · Angad Behl