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Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by fikama »

barefeg wrote: post #45
bloopernova wrote: post #23

I want an automated work timeline tool. There are things I do that are semantically linked, grouped by timing. For example: I get an issue in Jira "enable AWS feature for project X". I search for AWS and Terraform documentation on those subjects. I edit code on a feature branch named for the Jira issue. I save links and notes into my Emacs org-roam knowledge base. I test the new feature. I submit a PR. I edit documen…

I also dream of environments where all the things can interact with each other. Currently there’s a lot of services for almost everything, but little ability of connecting things

Agree this is one of the reasons why I like command line. This and scripting are one of the biggest problems of GUI for me

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by pizza »

first-class citizen vim splits in the browser. so annoying to have to scroll between the top part of a webpage and the bottom part of a webpage to mentally memcpy info into a form in the year of our lord 2022.

i think my ideal browser would have a ui like tmux

actually if we could go back to using web technologies to build browsers (reminiscent of xul) maybe we should try to build browsers using wasm - then everyone under the sun can have their own contributions to make. xmonadic firefox, anyone?

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by xyzzy_plugh »

fikama wrote: post #50
Kinrany wrote: post #46

Google Sheets, but self-hosted and document-oriented like Jupyter notebooks, not spreadsheet-oriented.

What do you mean by "document-oriented google Sheets" - could you specify? I'm curious

I take it to mean cells in the notebook sense, not the spreadsheet sense.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by farski »

softwaredoug wrote: post #10

A better way to keep up with Github I don't want email notifications spamming Github. I want a smarter feed of things I should care about and need to keep up with to do my work. PRs I probably need to review, Issues related to what I work on, etc... I haven't found a great way to do this, maybe others have ideas?

I got my https://github.com/notifications dialed in this year and it's be really useful. For watching activity on internal repos I work on, plus a good number of public repos that I keep an eye on to various degrees, I find that it's a very well-designed tool for triage.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by farski »

I find myself working with timestamps a lot, and there were a couple very specific things I couldn't find with any of the existing converters/tools, so I built https://epoch.place, and it was a very good use of my time. I use it all the time and it does exactly what I need.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by Kinrany »

fikama wrote: post #50
Kinrany wrote: post #46

Google Sheets, but self-hosted and document-oriented like Jupyter notebooks, not spreadsheet-oriented.

What do you mean by "document-oriented google Sheets" - could you specify? I'm curious

In Sheets you can store a formula "A1 + 1" in cell A2.

In a document-oriented editor you'll store formula "p1 + 1" in paragraph p2.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by iandanforth »

Search by description. Basically if google fails me I want to be able to describe my problem and get suggestions and answers from that.

I know this is now possible as I recently asked OpenAI Codex to do just this. I described the problem I had and asked it complete the best python library to solve it. It suggested a library I hadn't heard of but was just what I needed.

This also works with the older tool 'citeomatic' from Allen AI. You can describe the paper you want to read and it will give you a reading list. (Not exactly the intent of the tool, but it worked well while it was up to date).

I think there's room for both a medium form (a paragraph description) direct query tool and a chatbot like tool that tries to iteratively refine the search.

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