TLDR
BUT WHAT IF YOU DID?
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DAY 1
TLDR – Reading Comprehension Practice is a lightweight, browser-based tutor that helps readers move from “what happened” to “what it means.”
The app serves short, iconic passages (Dickens, Melville, Ellison, Tolstoy), asks you to explain them in your own words, then gives instant, human-sounding feedback. A simple on-device analyzer looks for evidence across four buckets—setting, literal, mood, and deep/figurative—and responds with validation, a focused nudge, and optional follow-ups (re-read, try deeper, or answer a targeted question).
Clean, responsive UI, no accounts, no backend: just read, write, get coached, repeat. It’s a small daily gym for close reading, built to train attention, vocabulary, and interpretive muscle.
FAMILY TREE EXPLORER
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DAY 2
Family Tree Explorer is a single-page, privacy-first demo that proves how much you can do right in the browser. Drop in a GEDCOM file and it instantly parses everything locally—no accounts, no servers—then gives you a clean dashboard (people, families, births/deaths), quick surname search, location filtering, “likely living” toggles, expandable residence history, and one-click immediate-family summaries.
MONTHLY EXPENSE TRACKER
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DAY 3
Ready to take control of your finances? I'm sharing the exact blueprint I used with Claude to create my own powerful, custom-built personal budget tracker. No need for complicated software—this section reveals the simple, six-prompt sequence that turned a basic idea into a fully functional financial tool in no time.
From auto-categorizing transactions and separating business expenses to calculating net cash flow and tracking specific budgets like our $700 grocery goal, you’ll see that building a solution perfectly tailored to your needs is remarkably straightforward.
PHONICS FUN
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DAY 4
Ready for another dose of inspiration? Today’s build, the Montessori Phonics Flashcard App, proves that high-quality, educationally-sound tools don't require massive frameworks—you can absolutely do it with simple, foundational tech!
Using nothing but pure HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript for seamless Wix compatibility, Claude and I tackled the complexities of custom audio integration (even recording a personal voice for a familiar learning touch using my cell phone!) and responsive design to create a three-part system: interactive Letter Sounds with tracing, a Moveable Alphabet for CVC word building, and a Read Words blender that uses careful timing delays.
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DAY 5
Phonics Fun - A Montessori-Inspired Learning App
This is a custom-built phonics application designed specifically for early readers following the Bob Books progression and Montessori principles. Built for my grandchildren, the app teaches letter-sound relationships and CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) word building through three interactive activities:
Letter Sounds (where children click letters to hear their phonetic sounds), Build Words (where children construct target words by selecting letters in sequence), and Read Words (where children click complete words to hear them pronounced). The app uses pure HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript to ensure compatibility with Wix hosting, and integrates custom audio recordings in .m4a format for a personalized, grandmother-voiced learning experience.
Each page introduces new letters systematically - Page 1 covers s, m, a, t, c with words like "at," "sat," "mat," and "cat," while Page 2 adds f, h, r, b with words like "fat," "hat," "rat," and "bat," plus review words "cat" and "sat" for reinforcement. The colorful, touch-friendly interface with pink gradients and large buttons makes it accessible and engaging for young learners, while the three-activity structure provides multiple exposure points to support phonemic awareness, decoding skills, and reading fluency.