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Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#221

Im building dstack [1], a tool for continuous training ML models in the cloud. And I’m looking for a co-founder! Happy to chat if you are interested. [1] https://dstack.ai

What capabilities should your cofounder have?

Ideally, experience of building or selling tools to developers. Understanding of MLOps scene would be a bonus. Desire to build great tools!

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#222

Yes! I actually have a specific app in mind that if I had the time/patience I would build. Better yet if you build it I will buy it! The problem is this: in any given day as a developer I'm creating information in any of a dozen or more systems. Outlook (emails), Jira (tickets), Confluence (Wikis), Github (PRs), Slack (DMs and group messages), Notion (notes), IntelliJ, GDocs, etc. All of these systems have a part of…

I am working on a tool I'm calling Makerflow[1] that covers your github PRs and upcoming meetings use cases. My big picture aim is to work towards a system that makes it easier for devs to do do deep work, collaborate effectively, and manage their cognitive load.

[1] https://makerflow.co

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#223

Keyboard-focused text editors. Reaching for the mouse pointer is super annoying, unless I'm using an undocked macbook (which itself is an ergonomics nightmare). Emacs and Vim are fine enough, but both are old software with plenty of baggage. I don't find Vim's mnemonics comfy or intuitive, and Emacs' performance is abysmal by text editor standards. I believe more competition in the space, especially from big players,…

Does vim mode in IDEs cover your use case?

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#224

I would love to see tools in these categories: - Sets constraints on how we write code - like a combination of a powerful linter and templates or patterns. - Visualizes code-base and flow of code - quickly navigate to the relevant code as well as show the available functions in the code-base so newly onboarded devs can more easily re-use code than write new functions. - Press record to capture 3rd-party requests and…

Can you elaborate on "reduces context-switching"? I am working on something around that, but it can mean different things based on context.

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#225
The holy grail for me would be a tool that allows me to run (basically) any Python package in the browser.

Pyodide is at the point where it can run any pure Python wheel out of the box, but building non-pure wheels (e.g. containing C, C++, or Rus) is a very manual process.

I don't think we're tooo far away from having tools that automate all the manual work, but I really wish we had them today.

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#226

Yes! I actually have a specific app in mind that if I had the time/patience I would build. Better yet if you build it I will buy it! The problem is this: in any given day as a developer I'm creating information in any of a dozen or more systems. Outlook (emails), Jira (tickets), Confluence (Wikis), Github (PRs), Slack (DMs and group messages), Notion (notes), IntelliJ, GDocs, etc. All of these systems have a part of…

I am working on a tool I'm calling Makerflow[1] that covers your github PRs and upcoming meetings use cases. My big picture aim is to work towards a system that makes it easier for devs to do do deep work, collaborate effectively, and manage their cognitive load. [1] https://makerflow.co

I appreciate the heads up.

I've checked out the landing page. I didn't see any docs for the various tools. Is that something forthcoming?

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am working on a tool I'm calling Makerflow[1] that covers your github PRs and upcoming meetings use cases. My big picture aim is to work towards a system that makes it easier for devs to do do deep work, collaborate effectively, and manage their cognitive load. [1] https://makerflow.co

I appreciate the heads up. I've checked out the landing page. I didn't see any docs for the various tools. Is that something forthcoming?

Yes, docs on the website are upcoming. Meanwhile I have some documentation on github for the cli [1] and vscode plugin [2]

[1] https://github.com/makerflow/cli [2] https://github.com/makerflow/vscode-plugin

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#228

I don't know if this exists or not, but it's something I've always wanted. I love and hate unit testing. It's a fantastic idea that I've never seen successfully implemented in practice, mostly because the tests invariably fall by the wayside. At the very least, it's a burden to support them. I'd love a tool that would observe my code during runtime - capturing all inputs and outputs from every function, as well as th…

I am building Videobug - we record run time code execution and play it back in the IDE. We aim for Quick bug fixes, better code understanding and automatic test case generation.

Our Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31286126 Our demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD4CV7UL0RM

Would love to get your feedback.

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#229

Git alternative that works with GitHub but isn't git

isnt't git good enough? didn't get your point

git sucks completely. after using it for a decade, even building it (light demo) from scratch to get a feel for it, watching courses after courses and using it daily.. I still can't memorize most of it which is because UI of commands doesn't make sense....

wanna create a branch git checkout -b "abc"

wanna see what branches you have: git branch

wanna revert to file to old state: git checkout c5f567 -- file1/to/restore file2/to/restore

I thought checkout was to work with branches? what happened?

why is there even staging?

why there are infinite flags

I just want to have different version/branches of same code so i can try different things and go back and forth between them, plus remote sync.

I get by with common commands and if situation is weird either I will find the solution by Googling or I'll have to manually copy paste new code.

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#230

This video [0] is from February 2012, but as far as I know this tool is not yet implemented (or at least it is not widely used). Basically as you are writing a function, you can write sample input for it, and it tells you the intermediate value of each variable inside this function, which lets you reason about the code, makes it trivial to know you've done something wrong, and would make developing a much more intera…

This gets pretty close for web applications: https://www.replay.io/

Another relevant talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml6Dp3F4Inc

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