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Just got back on my college senior project: code-explainer. It's a tool that you can paste any JavaScript code in there and it'll parse it and tell you what each keyword means (It's more of a learning tool for beginners). I was only able to get a handful of keywords done and had to dropped it when I got out of college. Now I'm jumping back in to finish it and add more features. [ https://github.com/ChrisSannar/code-e…

Would love to see some examples in the readme!

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post #425

After noticing that the growing number of people at my day job seemed to be using our internal jargon differently, I decided to write a team glossary using confluence. The experience left me wanting. No crosslinking of terms, no enforcement of structure/format. Ugly/outdated styling. I thought there had to be a better way, but I couldn't find one so I built Jargonaut ( https://www.jargonaut.net ). It helps you build…

Great idea and I love the name!

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I am working on an application by which reader can read books as messages on their favourite messaging application such as Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp. Now a time people are spending a lot of their time on mobile phone and of which they spend 80 percent of their time on social media or messaging platform. They wanna read books but not able to get time for reading. So, we are creating a platform where users can selec…

great idea!

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I am currently learning on how to emulate a CPU and have picked the MSP430. I am trying to emulate it in Qemu and also thinking how I can also do it in Gem5. I have selected MSP430 considering it has just 27 instructions and I love the architecture.

Nice, how long does it take to get an mvp? Any resources you recommend?

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One of my main side interests is hobbyist game engine programming. I do enjoy playing games, but I don't work on programming engines because I'm trying to publish one. Instead, I find that engine development is a supremely fertile ground for learning about many, many different programming domains (with the benefit of being very close to the hardware). Just a few examples -- concurrency/multithreading/async, including…

How do you manage to test your engine? I have an interest and working on emulation and for me it is to just run the existing firmware etc and improve.

Do you create complex scenes or demos to test your engines to the limit? Don't you actually have to create a game to test your engine? For this do you port an existing open source game to your engine?

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#718

I’m working on making Postgres a real-time database (like Firebase): https://github.com/supabase/realtime At its core it’s an elixir server which listens to Postgres’s built-in replication functionality, converts the byte stream to JSON, then blasts it out over websockets. It’s working in production at a few companies now. My next goal is to build connectors to other systems like Kafka, SQS etc

FWIW, the README.md says "the Phoenix server listens to PostgreSQL's replication functionality (streaming WAL)" - that makes it sound like you're actually parsing the WAL itself. But you seem to be looking at the already decoded data (using postgres' logical decoding). That's the right thing to do, please don't get me wrong. Just suggesting to clarify.

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I'm working on a "Maintenance Solution" (MainTech) for the mostly the fast-food & restaurant industry. Places running it already in some parts of the world includes KFC, Pizza-Hut, Paul Bakery etc.. This is helping them to manage, track, assign any maintenance issue they might have as well as well as a big push for "Preventative Maintenance (daily, weekly) for their shops and store assets". Think of it as JIRA for the restaurant industry.

You guys knows what is funny... The NUMBER ONE item on the list that is broken across multiple brands and over 90 stores.. is "LED LIGHTS". I find it funny since LED LIGHTS are always toted as having such a long life span.

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post #547

I'm working on a morse code iOS app that can optionally use Force (3D) Touch. My dad had a stroke recently and is quarantined in a care facility. He can't talk but remembers morse code like a boss. He can't lift his finger off the screen to "tap" and there were no other morse apps out there for people with physical impairment. With this he's able to communicate... I've been coding for 15 years but this was life chang…

This actually sounds like a great way to learn it too, will be looking out for it in the App Store!!!
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