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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by felipesabino »

I decided to try the AI train and develop something without actually writing any line of code.

The result was very satisfying, https://rss.sabino.me - a rss new aggregator, with a summary to save some time on news that I do not want to read, but am mildly interested.

I will not say the same about the code quality tough

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by ayaros »

rhet0rica wrote: post #514
ayaros wrote: post #158

A web os; it's full recreation of the Lisa Office System GUI in Javascript. The entire thing is output to a single canvas element, which has forced me to write a number of the UI components from scratch that I'd normally take for granted. It's got an IndexedDB filesystem, and it's got apps. I'm almost done working on the first real app for it - a word processor akin to LisaWrite. Once I roll that out, I intend to do…

I never knew how much I needed this. Is it just a skin over JS apps, or have you done any work imitating the software architecture?

Thanks!

The answer is neither; it isn't remotely imitating the Lisa's architecture, nor is it a skin over some other previously written JS code. To be clear: this is absolutely NOT a CSS skin.

The only CSS involved is used for the positioning of the canvas element on the page, and for the styling of the temporary UI elements which mimic the Lisa's hardware test screen (and those that display as a fallback if JS is disabled). When the system "boots" all those temporary elements are replaced with a single canvas element on which the UI is displayed.

I should perhaps have been less modest in my original comment in that all of the UI components are coded from scratch. This includes a hierarchical system for displaying objects on the canvas (not dissimilar to the the DOM), the windowing system, a typesetting system, multiple systems for displaying and storing image data, and much more. I've written what I hesitate to call a graphics engine, but I guess that's sort of what it is... it even supports 1-bit blending modes.

This was originally going to be more along the lines of a CSS skin, but I became so deeply frustrated with visual inconsistencies across browser engines and platforms that I ultimately decided to move all the logic I could into JS. The result is what you see now.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by teekert »

chimprich wrote: post #615

A small, cute CLI app that gives overviews about files and other entities. I've called it `what`. It's inspired by being able to right-click on stuff in a GUI file manager to get an overview about what it is. https://github.com/richsmith/what/

About what what is?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by deredede »

ifellover wrote: post #524
funvill wrote: post #487

Art project. Counter Productive A random button in a park with a countdown timer. Instructions: - Press the button to reset the 24-hour countdown timer. - If the timer ever reaches zero, the project ends and the project will be removed. - To keep the project alive — press the button Its been running for 56 days with 820 button presses. Write up: https://blog.abluestar.com/projects/2025-counterproductive/ Stats page h…

Is it dead? According to the stats there’s a 25 hour gap :( great idea btw!

Maybe the project is a commentary on a post-truth world masquerading as a button.
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