alt.hn

2/21/2026 at 8:50:46 PM

Online Pebble Development

https://cloudpebble.repebble.com/

by teekert

2/22/2026 at 12:19:02 AM

cloudpebble was the best part about Pebble - it made development so easy I did so much more of it

The developer experience for modern devices is so awful - the teams driving it are so immersed in big team development that they leak build systems, config, package management, certificates, permissions, and store integration concerns all over the place - then some of them have minor errors and you're stuck

Sometimes you just want to write a single file of code and have it run. Cloudpebble will probably be the thing that brings me back to pebble.

by gmurphy

2/21/2026 at 10:05:10 PM

Nothing to install, no json to edit, no login req.. oh wait no, not that one..

by zb3

2/21/2026 at 10:45:08 PM

I understand that you need an account to save/publish stuff on their servers, but I would really love a "guest mode" where I can just try it out, maybe even save to LocalStorage.

by elaus

2/21/2026 at 10:57:26 PM

Exactly my thoughts.

"Forget about everything the gives you power and pay some rent to use this abstraction instead!!"

If this was the internet back when I started using a personal computer, I would put it down and do something else.

by heliumtera

2/22/2026 at 12:25:25 AM

They publish local development tools too, this is just another option if you want it.

by Wowfunhappy