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Re: Ask HN: What project are you working on?

#41
https://github.com/sebinsua/ramda-debug

Debugger for functional programming code in JavaScript. Lets you observe and visualise data flows through your function pipelines.

https://github.com/sebinsua/jstruct

A declarative way of defining JSON transformations. Hoping to possibly create a JSON-first GraphQL with it later on by letting the client supply the definitions of the data structures it expects.

http://spokesapp.co

Networking for makers.

Re: Ask HN: What project are you working on?

#42
Im working on a image parser that reads dimensional markup symbols to convert pictures of hand drawn sketches to constraint resolved corrected cad files with automated g-code output, automated pattern nesting, and eventually 2D to 3D conversion. No public code yet. :/

Re: Ask HN: What project are you working on?

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My main focus is my Android app which is a way to follow professional Dota games https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teamtol.li... I also work on http://problemotd.com/ which has a daily programming/logic puzzle. It's also open source if you're interested https://github.com/mburst/problemotd

That Dota app looks nice, how long have you been working on it for? How come you chose django over something such as flask for problemotd?

I've been working on it for almost a year now. It's crazy how fast the app and Dota space has grown since Valve released their WebAPI. Been considering open source the app for a little. Starting to work with other Dota enthusiasts on building cool new features.

I know Django super well and love the community and framework. While the framework does add some overhead it also makes for quicker development (in my case anyway).

Re: Ask HN: What project are you working on?

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I'm building an entity-component framework[0] in C++. It's not brilliant but ... it's ok probably.

https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/ecsframework

Eventually, that's going into a rebuild of another project, which is Space Invaders[1] in C++. That barely works and yes, it bootstraps through a batch file with the Visual Studio compiler because I saw that on Handmade Hero and I thought it was awesome, because setting SDL up through the visual studio UI is kind of a pain.

[0]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/ecsframework

[1]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/spaceinvaders

I make absolutely no guarantees about the quality of anything, because it's all projects and stuff, almost entirely for self-education.

Re: Ask HN: What project are you working on?

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I'm working on an iPhone app that show where everyone else is around you - in real-time. Its on the iTunes store, but its still in beta: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h34t/id949092708?ls=1&mt=8

This is really cool. I've thought of doing something similar. What are you using for the back-end? Edit: The real story clearly is (c) 2010-Flippity-Floppity-Floop. :)

Thanks joshmn

The backend is written in NodeJS with the SailsJS framework (which I used for Socket.IO support).

It runs in a Docker container on an AWS Autoscaling group with an RDS database.

Its been a blast to build

Re: Ask HN: What project are you working on?

#48

Playing around with ASP.NET 5 on Ubuntu by creating a simple blog. Posts are stored as Markdown files and then parsed on page load. I'll post a link when I get home since I forgot to push it to Github.

Please do, I'm interested in this.

Hey, sorry for the wait. I'm still early in building this so it is a bit rough around the edges

https://github.com/mattcan/TxtBlog

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me!

Re: Ask HN: What project are you working on?

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I'm glad to see one of these posts again. It feels like it's been a long time. I'm working on a new data model and language alternative to SQL. It works more like an object model, so you would say (Employee : Salary>80000).Department.Name for the name of departments of people making more than 80k. No links for another month or so (sorry).

There was one 10 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9528520

Sorry, Sheldon, I missed that.

Re: Ask HN: What project are you working on?

#50
To paraphrase myself from last time:

I'm working on a sort of DAW-ish thing for iPad. Except it's not really a DAW — more of a musical sketchpad. When I was sitting down and thinking of what I would like in a music creation app, I thought of two things. First, the typical DAW grid structure (and sheet music before it) is far too rigid for modern music. It's really hard to annotate music with syncopation, pitch bends, and fluid rhythms unless you already have the song in your head — and even then, it takes forever. Second, the feedback loop in most DAWs is really large. By the time you've pecked away at your piano roll and fiddled with the dozens of switches, your song is no longer fresh in your head. In other words, I wanted something akin to musical clay: a very simple, very malleable representation of music in space that focuses entirely on ease of interaction.

With my app, I try to solve both of these problems. In regards to the former, you have the option of drawing every note arbitrarily in pitch or time, as simply as in an ordinary drawing app. (Snapping is an option, too.) And as for the latter, the whole thing is a scroll view, so panning and zooming are incredibly simple. Furthermore, you have immediate access to undo/redo and can also rewind to the last place you played from, meaning that iterating on your ideas takes only a few seconds as opposed to the arduous process of controlling a DAW. The UI tries to get out of your way as much as humanly possible. I should emphasize that this won't be production software; the music you create will sound like MIDI. Rather, my goal here is to make an app that you can freely sketch and create musical ideas in, which can then be used as a rough draft for working with a more featureful DAW. Performance is a top priority, and I'm targeting 60fps on my iPad 3.

Here's a very early video with (mostly) mock UI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra8OvnoxKQw

Hope to release within the next few months!

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