My last two presentations used browser tabs as slides.

For my talk last week titled Your Chotu Is Smarter Than You Think, I planned to show a series of examples. I loaded them all in a browser window as tabs like this:

  1. How I use AI to navigate toilets
  2. How I use AI for food recommendation
  3. How I use AI for book suggestions
  4. What else I can use AI for
  5. …

Once loaded, I can press Ctrl+PgDn to move to the next - just like I’d press the right arrow key in a slide deck. I can also use the mouse to click on the tab if I want to jump around.

But there’s one advantage I missed from slides. I can add title slides, section dividers, etc.

Since web pages are so versatile, I vibe-coded a slide tool by roughly saying:

  • Give me a single page “slide” tool
  • Let me edit the title, subtitle, fonts, colors, backgrounds, etc. via a (barely visible) button on the top right
  • Store this in the URL so I can bookmark and share it

(Note: I had 5 min on 4% battery and my laptop couldn’t connect to the Internet. This was voice vibe-coded on the web and the PR accepted without review.)

That let me create a far richer presentation.

  1. 🟢 SLIDE I use AI like an intern
  2. Like a plumber, to navigate toilets
  3. Like a waiter, for food recommendation
  4. Like a secretary, for book suggestions
  5. 🟢 SLIDE Use Paid AI. ANY Paid AI is the best ROI you get
  6. You can hire AI for many services
  7. 🟢 SLIDE Under-using AI is more dangerous than over-using
  8. … and so on.

Here’s what the full presentation looked like

The “slides” allow me to add structure and remind the audience and me about the key points.

For all the bad press PowerPoint receives, I don’t think presentations are a bad format. But today, there are so many more ways of presenting that using slideshow software seems a bit outdated.