Working on guitar learning software, similar to Rocksmith or Yousician.
Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
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#432https://subscrippedoff.com/ I'm fed up with the widespread adoption of subscription models by consumer companies - I think they tend to pray on people who don't track their usage or forget they signed up. This was one idea for helping people understand exactly how much they're really spending on subscriptions. Unfortunately I think it's a little long-winded, but part of that is just because so many services now use a…
What about watching a persons bank account via Openbanking etc then you can easily (!) determine which ones are subscriptions ?
Hadn’t thought of that! Interesting idea.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#433Concise Encoding: https://concise-encoding.org
The friendly data format for human and machine. Think JSON, but with 1:1 compatible twin binary and text formats and rich type support.
* Edit text, transmit binary. Humans love text. Machines love binary. With Concise Encoding, conversion is 1:1 and seamless.
* Rich type support. Boolean, integer, float, string, bytes, time, URI, UUID, list, map, markup, metadata, comments, etc.
* Plug and play. No schema needed. No special syntax files. No code generation. Just import and go.
The specifications are pretty much ready for version 1.0 release now, but I'm holding off until I have the reference implementation done (about 90% complete at https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding). After that I'll start on the schema specification. Once that's done, I have a low-level communication protocol that will use this format under the hood.
I could use help in the following areas:
* Looking over the specifications and pointing out anything that looks weird or off or might cause problems.
* Help with the schema specification.
* Implementations in other languages.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#434A "responsive" version of HN: https://github.com/yhippa/responsive-hn
The site works pretty well right now but I wanted to use this as a way to get better with front-end development and playing with stuff like Firebase.
To see it in all it's half-baked glory go here: http://yhippa.github.io/responsive-hn/. I think once I got a bare minimum of stuff to load I stopped working on it.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#435Ten years ago I tried to bring encrypted comms to the masses and make an alternative to twitter and Facebook events using serveride and eventually browser based crypto.
https://github.com/radiosilence/wire
It was ripped apart (quite rightly in some cases) so I gave up.
I guess now that we can have have unaudited binaries running on our phones and devices to provide this to the masses we are much safer.
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#436I 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 looks great! ELK is overkill for simple apps, sometimes all you want is to feed the logs from a few services into one dashboard. Datadog is really great for this but can be expensive
Glad you like it! Completely agree about the overkill-ness of ELK.
I haven't had a chance to try Datadog yet but it looks great, the one complaint I've had with Splunk (or at least the way we use it at work) is that it's still "Just logs" and sometimes you need more than that to investigate issues while Datadog seems to cover more areas of monitoring in one package.
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#437I built a PWA for disc golf speedruns: https://www.anhyzer.io/
I'm really quite pleased with it and I use it often, but there's only one course listed (the one I play on), and there's no feature for letting users contribute data for courses. Also, I use a database with public access, so if you know what you're doing you can hack the scoreboard.
If you're interested or want to add a course I'd accept PRs: https://github.com/staab/disc-golf
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#438I wrote handbrake runner. It takes a plaintext (glib) keyfile and runs HandBrakeCLI repeatedly to encode video. I use it for my dvd/bd collection. It has a support script (hbscan.py) to build keyfile templates from handbrake's scan of dvd titles.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#439Earlier quoted context omitted.
The things are submitted by users. Things to show is being selected using an algorithm similar to the one of HN (where age of submission, number of votes etc) play a role. Nothing fancy about this project, but I seem to use it as a bookmarking service where I tend to share things I find interesting. I use it also as a blogging platform where I sometimes post random thoughts as well as articles on how I solved a probl…
Ahh so the 20 refers to the number of categories?
Yes, the number of categories and the number of items shown.
There is no paging or endless scrolling, so users have more time for other things IRL :)
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#440My terminal mail client. Work has been slow but steady