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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://buzzmein.ca

It's a simple project to allow call forwarding from apartment buzzers to multiple phone numbers - ideal for roommates, couples or families.

Had something very basic working 2 years ago and should have released it like that. It's still not quite where I want it at, but now I can iterate instead of holding everything back

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://github.com/macarc/PipeScore music notation for bagpipes. I started this a year and a half ago and I keep throwing it away and restarting, but I'm hopeful for this iteration. I haven't got around to making a README yet unfortunately.

Neat. Knowing nothing about bagpipes but a bit about music notation from playing piano I'm curious what's different.

Thanks :) There's a very heavy focus on gracenotes in piping - that's probably the main difference. There are a lot of different embellishments (probably more than 200) used very frequently with 3 to 10 individual gracenotes in them. Most general music notation apps are not so good with dealing with this - MuseScore, for example, has a massive list of all possible embellishments which you have to scroll through to try and find the one you want. PipeScore tries to take advantage of the patterns in gracenotes to reduce the number of options by categorising them (e.g. the 'doubling' class has 27 different embellishments in it, but they are all dependent on the notes immediately before and after the embellishment, so instead of manually choosing the correct doubling you just choose 'doubling' and it automatically gives the right one)

There are other dedicated bagpipe apps but none of them are as frictionless as I'd like.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://www.namehunt.dev/ I've always struggled with finding domain names for new projects (all the good ones are taken!) that I decided to do something about it. The suggestion engine isn't really fully working yet, but the idea is to input a desired word/name/set of keywords and see a list of available domain names. Kind of following the "build what you yourself would use" philosophy. P.S.: Love the idea of having…

I tried it out and the suggestions were not bad but there are two huge problems.

It shows everything as available even if it’s very obviously not, and it uses underscores in the names.

The first problem might lie with the registrar API assuming you’re using one.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I think it's a little bit beyond "half" baked, but I built a thing I call Logsuck last year: https://github.com/jackbister/logsuck The idea is to have a free Splunk alternative which you can set up with just one binary. I use Splunk at work and love it, but it just doesn't seem like a product for solo developers (I can't even find a pricing page on splunk.com), and the primary free alternative, the ELK stack, seems a…

This is cool, do you have any usage detail and/or production nuances?

Currently it's not used in production anywhere, I mostly use it to view my own log files when I'm working on some hobby project locally, so I'm sure there are a few issues that would show up if it was used more heavily.

I do have a list of known issues on a private Trello board, I should probably move those to GitHub so that they are at least visible to people, I'll take care of that right away.

There is some info in the readme on how to get started, if you want to try it out and need any help beyond that let me know!

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