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THE DEVIL SUGGESTS

Build a website that does precisely one pointless thing

Unnecessary · Use what you have · Easy

Make a web page with one clear, useless function: perhaps it makes a noise, rotates a potato or declares a random fact. The discipline is stopping when it does exactly one thing.

Do it

  1. Write down the pointless action in one sentence.
  2. Make a single-page layout with one obvious control.
  3. Build the action with simple HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
  4. Test it on a phone and a desktop browser.
  5. Publish it and resist adding features.

What next?

Keep the useful notes, photograph the result if there is one, then go and find something else to do.