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Ask HN: What are you working on?
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#402I'm working on a language optimized for solving programming challenges as quickly as possible. That is, I'm not optimizing for execution time , I'm optimizing for time between reading the problem statement and having a working solution . As far as I'm aware, there aren't any existing languages in this space. There are plenty of "code golf" languages, which optimize for shortest finished program , but that's slightly…
This is such a cool idea. The gap between the "aha" moment of a programming challenge and the implementation is high for me since I don't get to code very much anymore. Can't wait to check it out!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?
#403I finally got sick of using Activity Monitor on macOS since it uses too much resources and am making good on a promise I made earlier to rewrite it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25401791. It just needs some XPC refactoring but other than that it's at the point where I just never use Activity Monitor at all anymore, so I'll probably put the source up soon. I have a bunch of things in mind in the future that fit in with the goal of answering the question of "why is my Mac slow" that has so far either existed in scattered tools or not been easy to gather data on at all.
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#404I wrote an in-memory, write-only caching library for C++:
https://github.com/ccapo/ephemera
I am planning on using it for a game server, to keep track of player scores.
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#405I'm building an app that helps employees get more feedback at work with a strong emphasis on data privacy. It's kind of like the anti-performance review app.
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#406I am working on personal finance tool called earmark.co
One stop shop for all your finance goals. Investments, budget, multiple bank account, and automated transfers between account.
Check it out! On mobile and the web. Coming soon.
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#407An aggregator ala reddit/hackernews/twitter that uses a market mechanism to better incentivise content discovery. One of the biggest issues with existing aggregators is that: - how well content performs is dependant on the attention it gets immediately after posting. - However, readers aren’t incentivised to sift carefully through new content, which is generally of lower quality than "frontpage" content - This means…
I've had a recurring thought where you supplant upvotes with something like an ELO system. Basically, my thought is that I know I can follow something like the reddiquette, or the HN rules. I'm certainly not perfect, but I don't downvote when I disagree, and I don't upvote when I agree, and I try to not make unsubstantive comments. Reddit and HN maybe used to follow this when they were very small, but as sites grow t…
The guy who invented the Elo system was actually named Elo, it's not an acronym.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?
#408I'm working on tool called Unobin that lets you write Ansible-esque playbooks and compile them to a standalone binary with all of the templates and files baked in.
I'm trying to solve the "works on my machine" problem that's very prevalent in the devops world. One person's playbook (or Terraform module or Chef cookbook or whatever) works fine on the developer's machine due to assumptions made during the development. But transfer that code to another machine and it's a whole 'nother story. There is often a lack of rigor around dependency management and versioning, along with hidden dependencies such as programs that need to exist on the machine where the playbook is run. I want to make it possible to include all of the dependencies directly in the binary, so you truly need just one binary (unobin) to download and run.
I've made a lot of progress and have what I feel is a solid POC at this point. It lacks many modules but I'm just writing them as I need them. Right now I'm working on a reference playbook to build a Concourse CI stack, and that's giving me solid feedback to myself about what's missing.
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#409Just for fun, I built an app for magicians to reveal a playing card to a spectator. The spectator is asked to think of a card and then place their finger on the magician's screen - after a few seconds, their selected card magically materializes into view. So far I've been trying it on family and friends and it's been getting great reactions. Disclaimer: you probably would want to have a little bit of card trick experience for the app to be useful.
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/card-mind-reader/id1548145803
Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.carddispla...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?
#410https://taskflowy-9a9aa.web.app/demo (desktop browser only so far)
The idea is a daily note/task management tool combined with the WorkFlowy concept of infinite lists. The real use case here is for heavy note taking and also tracking the todos within all the notes. I found that with WorkFlowy I had so many buried todos that I could never see them in one place and manage them throughout the day. It’s great for notes, but wasn’t working for tracking tasks.
It allows you to prioritize the tasks at every level. You can zoom in on certain nodes to see only the tasks relevant for that node and descendants. It seems to actually work for me but would love to talk to people who haven’t found a note/task tool that works for them yet.