I'm working on a little vocabulary helper app. As I'm reading books I run into words that I don't really understand so I want to keep track of them easily. I have a screen that allows me to enter a word and it looks up definitions automatically and allows me to add them to a list for now. When I get a bit more time I will add a review stage, a bit like anki.
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#652I am working on a personal finance App for iOS that help you to manage assets easily.
Features:
- Dead easy to book keeping
- Plain text export
- Focus on assets management
- Support many iOS platform only features
Currently this is Chinese only but I am looking to support English as well: https://xxz.jakehao.com
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#653I’m working on a tool that allows developers to record and playback interactive, guided walkthroughs of a codebase, directly from their editor. It’s called CodeTour, and it’s currently available as a VS Code extension: https://aka.ms/codetour . I built it because I frequently find myself looking to onboard (or “reboard”) to a project, and not knowing exactly where to start. After speaking to a bunch of other develope…
Love the idea! Maybe a suggestion with the "bit rot" problem (getting out of sync with code). Code tours will likely cover the most important parts of the codebase, which should be well tested in large projects (and large projects are the ones that need the tours). You could link the comments to those tests, and if any of those tests are changed, you will be advised to take a look at the tour comment. These tests can be also discovered automatically, as there exist code coverage tools.
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#654Just 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.
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#655After 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 Ugly/outdated styling.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…
Are you familiar with termbases? There is in fact a whole industry with standardized data formats dedicated to solving exactly that problem.
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#656I wrote this tool (started on Thursday) called Doodle that is designed to give kids a quick drawing canvas. It's a super simple app that I made for my son who kept drawing over all of my Apple notes. You can draw, then press the button in the top right to quickly erase your drawing (Like an Etch A Sketch). Someone nerd-sniped me and I added in the ability to record a video as well. Technically , you could use it to d…
I would very much like that for Android. It seems much better than the tablet drawing app my kids currently use.
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#657I'm developing the weightwatcher tool for deep neural networks into a full fledged product
http://github.com/CalculatedContent/WeightWatcher
The weightwatcher lets you detect potential problems in a trained neural network
https://calculatedcontent.com/2020/02/16/weightwatcher-empir...
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#658I'm continuing to build PerfBeacon - https://PerfBeacon.com - an automated alternative to manually running Google Lighthouse tests.
Background: I couldn't find a service that could tell me if the latest deploy of my web app would make it slower, so I decided to build it. Since getting started I've become aware of several competitors, but I enjoy solving problems in this space.
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#659I am working on a card game based on braid theory (in the braid group B_4).
I am also working on a private journaling app, with a mild mental-health focus, aimed at teenagers; the idea is that if your parents want to have access to your phone and keep track of what you do, maybe they'll at least be OK with privacy in the form of an app that doesn't have sharing or messaging, doesn't allow for images or video, but just let you write text or record audio messages that are guaranteed private by 256-bit symmetric-key cryptography. No more worrying that your mom might flip through your diary while cleaning your room!
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#660I am teaching my daughters to code. (10y and 7y) They are taking classes remotely and all the extracurricular activities are cancelled. I am also working from home. This is a unique opportunity that I may never have with them again.
Yesterday my oldest started to use the Roblox editor. I am researching Roblox training courses (would love some suggestions). An hour ago I showed her Zork and introduced her to Inform. (http://inform7.com/)
She is coding as I type this. :-)