"Time waits for no cat, especially when they're upside down" - Pringles, Arctic Route Veteran
Welcome to Pringles' Arctic Time Trucking Co.! This is a fun, non-commercial software engineering experiment designed to track time in the most purr-fessional way possible.
Inspired by our real-life Pringles (pictured above), a cat who allegedly abandoned a promising career in professional gymnastics to haul cargo across the frozen tundra. Or maybe he just likes napping on the sofa. We may never know the truth.
- Time Tracking: Log your hours on the ice roads (or at your desk).
- Project Management: Organize your deliveries (tasks) by client.
- Offline First: Uses your browser's localStorage. No cloud, no tracking. Can be installed as an app and used fully offline on Android and iOS.
- Backup & Restore: Save your logs to a local JSON file. Essential because Pringles doesn't trust the cloud.
- Export to CSV: Includes a US/EU format switch, because for some reason Excel still thinks .CSV should depend on your local region settings.
- Cat-Themed UI: Because everything is better with paws.
- Multi-Language Support: English, German, and Finnish (for those authentic arctic vibes).
- Vanilla JavaScript: No frameworks, just pure JS modules.
- Tailwind CSS: Precompiled and included as
tailwind.css(no CDN dependency). - JS localStorage: For no-cloud, device-only local data storage.
- Service Workers: For PWA offline capabilities and caching.
- Clone this repository.
- Open
index.htmldirectly in your favorite modern web browser. - Alternatively, upload the files to any standard web server - no build steps or backend required.
- Start trucking!
- Go to Pringles' arctic trucking portal at www.arctictime.de
- Android: It should ask you to install it automatically, or check the browser menu for "Install App".
- iOS: Tap the "Share" button in Safari and select "Add to Home Screen".
- Important: Open the app once while online to let it download the arctic maps (cache the files). After that, it works fully offline!
- Once installed, you can use the app icon to run it fully offline — perfect for dead zones in the tundra.
This project was first created as a base44 prototype (sources in base44 prototype source), then migrated to a purely offline version using some cats, Github Copilot + Claude 4.5 Opus, GPT 5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro.
See also the related blog post Cat-Based Coding in 2025 – Can I Haz the Solution?
This project is licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal License - see the LICENSE file for details.
Oliver Heggelbacher
www.kickdrive.de
This website is a fun, non-commercial software engineering experiment.
Tiny disclaimer: The photo of our cat Pringles (above) is entirely real. The illustrations, music, and a suspicious portion of the code, however, were created with the help of "AI" — which may or may not be a modern, respectable way of saying that additional cats were involved. Interpret as you see fit.