A sane build system + package management solution for C++. I have to cobble it together via CMake + Conan every time and I'm praying I get put on a new Rust project someday, but my position and sizeable comp are mainly for being a "legacy janitor".
Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
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Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with 1Password or Bitwarden?
Not sure how easy self-hosting those are, but any paid-for and/or online offering by a third party is useless. This should have been clear long ago, but the LastPass breach should have made it obvious.
To each it's own, but 1Password security design looks pretty solid. Here is their white paper: https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-p...
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#23A developer laptop with all the required software installed, environment variables set, ready to go.
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#24An open source lib where I can type up some text configuration, hook it up to a sql database, and get a nice looking generated form (for internal surveys in my case).
Check out https://lowdefy.com/ they even have a sample survey app as one of their examples.
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#25A local dev environment that works. Doing this again, and again, and again.... ...truly sucks. After not working on a codebase for a year, or two, I usually need to set up everything again -- and often run into very stupid/pointless issues that waste an hour, and often much more, just to get to the point where I can start the actual coding process. This is pretty much why I've stopped coding. I don't have the time to…
I think local reproducible dev environments is a great and less-intense way to get into Nix (the package manager)! https://devenv.sh/ is built on top of Nix as well to make it more approachable and user friendly for exactly your use case.
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#26A sane build system + package management solution for C++. I have to cobble it together via CMake + Conan every time and I'm praying I get put on a new Rust project someday, but my position and sizeable comp are mainly for being a "legacy janitor".
Have you tried gn or bazel?
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#27A local dev environment that works. Doing this again, and again, and again.... ...truly sucks. After not working on a codebase for a year, or two, I usually need to set up everything again -- and often run into very stupid/pointless issues that waste an hour, and often much more, just to get to the point where I can start the actual coding process. This is pretty much why I've stopped coding. I don't have the time to…
I think containers (docker/vagrant/etc) are probably what you are looking for.
Just the other day I had to figure out an opaque problem with a vagrant image not working. It was very annoying, and wasted the entire time I had set aside for coding.
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#28The programmable web. A singular gateway to a programmatic way in which you not only consume data but also services. It doesn't exist. We have a very fragmented ecosystem of http based services mixed with html, APIs and everything requires an account or credit card. I'd kill for one way to access everything in a programmatic way through one gateway. Tried to approach this in numerous ways and continually failed.
Edit: Last attempt https://M3O.com
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#30Revenue infrastructure. For the amount of time and engineering resources it takes to build and maintain, it's just easier to spend 10% of it.
Buy $10K > Build $120K