https://qualex.dev (landing page pushed yesterday). A tool to improve commit messages.
I have some other plans to apply the API to other text around code (PRs and changelogs). Feedback on the idea very welcome.
Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#652I've been working on https://dedolist.com/ on and off since summer. I wanted a one stop place to find and be able to use open data from around the web. I even have an open API (no authentication required currently) for each data source. I have basically done no marketing at all for it. Mostly just wanted an excuse to play with some new technologies (Netlify and Eleventy in this case).
Not sure how much I want to continue adding data sources or supporting it, but it doesn't really cost me much keeping it online currently.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#653I 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.
I'm voting for those supersized plush Enter keys.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#654I’ve been building a set of web based tools for making little multiplayer (and single player) games.
All the tools, including programming, art, and sound are baked in. I’m reworking the editor now and hope to have a proper release this year.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#655Tuna programming language: https://github.com/Conder-Systems/tuna-lang The intended use case is rapid development of microservices. I’m excited about it because you can describe reliable and secure apps concisely: https://github.com/Conder-Systems/tuna-lang/tree/main/demos/... Tuna presents a single system image abstraction so developers don’t need to concern themselves with scalability. It’s all open source and I we…
> Tuna's global state is persisted in a database, rather than held in memory.
Very interesting. In addition to micro-services, this could drastically ease the pain of developing workflow orchestration systems.
How do you plan to handle code updates in the context of global state?
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#656A massively multiplayer game with a fresh start every time, that's easy to learn and easy to start having fun, doesn't guilt you into playing (healthy long-term relationship with the player), and has lots of replay value: http://vnav.io Currently there are multiple major bugs with damage.
Wow, this is really fun
Thanks! We just fixed a major bug where you would sometimes take far, far more damage than was correct, especially with bots.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#657http://www.nochrichte.ch/ A hackernews for swiss news with a touch of RSS feeds. I had no users, adwords didn‘t work so I disabled most half implemented stuff. Now it‘s just a swiss news rss.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#658I've been fiddling around with building UI's that use hand tracking in VR. Given the lack of physical feedback and the low fidelity of today's tracking methods, it turns out to be quite challenging. It feels really good when it works though. VR Keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luiva93bf_0 VR Whiteboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-hECpf-BY
Any chance you could get the vr cameras to recognize a physical keyboard (not necessarily plugged in) and map the virtual keyboard over the top? Obviously it relies on the user sitting at a desk. But it would provide physical feedback.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#659I built a search engine designed to balance against clickbait, SEO abuse etc. https://www.pageref.org/.
Also, no ads or tracking.
Works well for some things, but needs improvement, especially for technical or specific queries.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
#660I built a small voice communication portal I'm calling Rally Call [0] that will be submitted to the Digital Ocean/Dev hackathon tomorrow [1]. Rally Call is intended to be a backup group communication portal that can be used in emergencies and situations where use of cell phones is lost. It is essentially a group voicemail-box that runs on Twilio. If you and your group had the foresight to sign up for an account, you could use Rally Call to let others in your group know your status ("Hey everyone, I'm OK. I made it out and am staying at a friend's house") or to organize ("Let's all group up and meet at uncle John's house in two days."). You dial in from any touch tone phone and enter your Crew's Account PIN to access the account where you can listen to or record messages for the group. Only one Crew member needs to register for an account and can share the dial-in number and account PIN with anyone they want in their Crew.
While the project's intent is a backup comm system for emergencies, it could obviously be used for any number of purposes. I still have a couple things to button up before submitting, but it's mostly done and should be a solid MVP by this time tomorrow.
[0] - https://github.com/chrsstrm/rallycall [1] - https://dev.to/devteam/announcing-the-digitalocean-app-platf...