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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Heard of Trifacta? Something similar?

Similar, not as polished obviously. Also not in the cloud, the loaded data stays within the browser, all the transformations happen in browser. Primarily because I'd prefer more people to have that option. Not sure if anyone cares though...

There are times when one might want to do this, but with a client's data that you don't have permission to send anywhere in the cloud, so an in-browser option could definitely be useful.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://www.thingybase.com/ It’s a home inventory app! I’ve been working on this and using it for almost two years now in tiny little scraps of time I have between my day job and raising 2 kids. I’ve embraced the “half-baked” aspect of shipping a project like this by drawing silly stick figures for all the illustrations. It’s just been so much fun building and using it. If you use it, don’t worry about me abandoning…

I actually really love the illustrations!

Thanks! Me too, and I say that because they’re my 4 year old daughter’s style of stick figures: egg bodies with arms and legs sticking out.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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GoDBLedger https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger

Its the core of my open source accounting system. Its slightly further along than half baked because it is pretty much feature complete for what i want core to do, but that just means you can do double entry bookkeeping on the command line. Currently building a web interface to interact with it which hopefully will attract non technical users

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #586

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar, not as polished obviously. Also not in the cloud, the loaded data stays within the browser, all the transformations happen in browser. Primarily because I'd prefer more people to have that option. Not sure if anyone cares though...

There are times when one might want to do this, but with a client's data that you don't have permission to send anywhere in the cloud, so an in-browser option could definitely be useful.

Well if you know some people who want this, enquiring minds want to know ;)...

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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A local multiplayer arcade game (great timing with the pandemic, I know). I think the current number and quality of local multiplayer PC games could be better. There are certainly some great games out there, but I believe there's a lot of room to explore new concepts as well. I also wanted to figure out just how much work it is to ship even a simple polished game. It's a pretty simple concept but I think has some potential (I've had fun testing it with friends at least). The version up works, but a new version with some fixes and features is in the works. If you are interested, can grab a friend or seven, and have some gamepads, give it a shot! https://noncestudios.itch.io/ballgame I'm also looking for playtesting input, so if you have any comments I would love feedback! (On Itch.io or at this username on Reddit)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://cleave.app Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Started because of frequent multitasking heavy work with limited resources. Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all state…

Is this the MacOS equivalent of KDE's activities? https://blog.hanschen.org/2011/02/04/activities-a-change-in-...

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I'm porting LLVM/Clang to the 6502. Notoriously difficult project, attempted dozens of times by as many folks.

https://github.com/mysterymath/clang6502

My take generates pretty darn good assembly for the cases it handles, but it's absurdly incomplete. Still, a huge amount of risk factors have already been addressed, and there's only a few big known unknowns left.

Example input:

  void print_int(char x) {
    if (x 
Example output:

  .code
  .global print__int                      ; -- Begin function print_int
  print__int:                             ; @print_int
  ; %bb.0:                                ; %entry
    CMP #10
    BMI LBB0__2
  ; %bb.1:                                ; %if.end.preheader
    LDX #10
    PHA                                     ; 1-byte Folded Spill
    JSR ____udivqi3
    JSR print__int
    PLA                                     ; 1-byte Folded Reload
    LDX #10
    JSR ____umodqi3
  LBB0__2:                                ; %if.then
    CLC
    ADC #48
    ;APP
    JSR $FFD2
    ;NO_APP
    RTS
                                        ; -- End function
  .global ____udivqi3
  .global ____umodqi3

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I made a pullchain that immediately ends your video call to avoid awkwardness. https://twitter.com/lanewinfield/status/1339257875034566656 It was hacked together in an afternoon and def not ready for prime time, but it got quite a bit more interaction than originally thought. Also, perhaps its greatest form (like many things I've made) might be as half-baked. Now the question is: do I make more? My instinct says no b…

If you make more, it would be even more hilarious if they were pull-up handles on your chair like for an ejection seat.
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