{"id":2626,"date":"2026-06-02T03:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/i-built-a-parking-meter-for-paragraphs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T03:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:24:28","slug":"i-built-a-parking-meter-for-paragraphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/i-built-a-parking-meter-for-paragraphs\/","title":{"rendered":"I Built a Parking Meter for Paragraphs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The text is baked into the key. Fix a typo in paragraph 3 and it gets a brand new key, while tips already sitting on paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 do not move. Tips attach to what was said, not to a line number that slides the second you add a sentence. I am unreasonably proud of this and it took twenty minutes.<\/p>\n

<\/a> The reader never meets the chain <\/h2>\n

The app spots MiniPay (Opera’s stablecoin wallet, preinstalled in plenty of places Ethereum gas has never been invited to), auto-connects, and sets feeCurrency<\/code> to cUSD so gas and tip come out of the same balance. First tap approves an allowance once. Every tap after is one transaction at sub-cent gas. No signup, no “connect wallet” interpretive dance.<\/p>\n

<\/a> The argument I cannot win alone <\/h2>\n

Here is the part I am genuinely stuck on: how big is a tip that feels like nothing?<\/p>\n

The presets are currently $0.001, $0.005, $0.01 and $0.05, and I have no idea which should be the default. Is one cent a tip or a mild insult? Is a tenth of a cent charming, or am I just wasting your tap? I do not know, so I am going to do the radical thing and ask the people who would actually tap it. That is you. There is a comment box.<\/p>\n

While I stall on that, I added a custom amount field<\/strong> so you can type your own number. It does one slightly paranoid thing: it resets to a normal preset after a single tap. Because the alternative is that you set it to $5, find a rhythm, and accidentally fund my entire roadmap in a burst of generosity. Flattering, but I would rather you meant it. (There is also a hard cap, for the same reason. I have met enthusiasm before.)<\/p>\n

<\/a> Two lines to put it on your blog <\/h2>\n

None of this is useful trapped on my domain, so the tipping part is an npm package, @tipitip\/embed<\/code>, and integration is two lines.<\/p>\n

React: <\/p>\n

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import<\/span> {<\/span> TipParagraphs<\/span> }<\/span> from<\/span> \"<\/span>@tipitip\/embed<\/span>\"<\/span>;<\/span> <<\/span>TipParagraphs<\/span> articleId<\/span>=<\/span>\"0xbdc473d818a4a15c39941bd9513dbff8eade14a57825619c39884ce36fa40178\"<\/span> \/><\/span> <\/code><\/pre>\n
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Allergic to React? There is a framework-free web component: <\/p>\n
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<script <\/span>type=<\/span>\"module\"<\/span> src=<\/span>\"https:\/\/esm.sh\/@tipitip\/embed\/vanilla\"<\/span>><\/script><\/span> <tipitip-paragraphs<\/span> article-id=<\/span>\"0xbdc473d818a4a15c39941bd9513dbff8eade14a57825619c39884ce36fa40178\"<\/span>><\/tipitip-paragraphs><\/span> <\/code><\/pre>\n
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Drop either into a blog, a docs page, or a Farcaster frame and your paragraphs become tippable. It ships with npm provenance, a signed attestation linking the tarball to the exact commit and CI run, because I would like at least one part of this to look like an adult made it.<\/p>\n
  <\/a> Things I shipped, things I have very much not decided <\/h2>\n