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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?
#72Filtering tool for Twitter. For example, if I'm following someone for their knowledge in software engineering, I don't want to see their political Tweets. I would pay for an extension like this.
Yes. This is a stuff Twitter should solve: > Follow @somerandomperson's > - Political tweets > - Funny tweets > - Research tweets > - Everything
Brilliant, that is what I want! Also, being able to pay and then see advertisements would be great.
EDIT: I just looked at the terms and conditions for getting a developer’s API key. I might write a Common Lisp package to let me filter my Twitter stream for just the kind of material I would like to read (e.g., only show tech material on deep learning, or only knowledge graph material).
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#73first-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…
Right click on tab... duplicate. Managing the windows is left as an exercise for the reader (but an app like Rectangle will help).
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#74I would like a music engraving tool, like lilypond[0], but which plays nicer with the web (bonus points if it makes it easy to treat code as data).
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#75first-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…
Right click on tab... duplicate. Managing the windows is left as an exercise for the reader (but an app like Rectangle will help).
Fair enough, and it's what I do currently - but the minimum set of inputs for this action should just be
- move cursor to split point (in fact this should be optional and we just default to mid-way split)
- input io event (e.g. shift + double click on a non-interactive page region)
as opposed to the much greater mental complexity of manual window management + distraction of OS wm animations, delay - I can only remember 7 things at once, after all, and if I do manual wm management I run the danger of seeing some other app that I had open and it leads to another 45 minute distraction from what I was trying to do :)
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wonder if dockerized cocalc + sageworksheets / jupyter lab is what you're looking for
Regular Jupyter notebooks are missing two important things: 1. Sheets hide formulas most of the time 2. Formulas in sheets are reactive, updating one cell immediately updates all the cells that depend on the first
besides "show hn", and "ask hn", there should be a 3rd category: "inspire hn" where we open-source and workshop brilliant ideas that are just waiting for some genius to come along and implement them. @dang ? :)
a spreadsheet ui for a higher-order jupyter notebook where each cell is a jupyter notebook or cell, and calculations flow into and out of cells like Monads or Arrows, would be genius !
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#77I'm missing a collaborative whiteboard with the following features: * Infinite scroll * Undo/redo * Pasting images * LaTeX math input
Have you looked at Open Board (https://openboard.ch/index.en.html)? I've just started playing with it and I _think_ it has all of those features.
But I agree. I've been looking for a whiteboarding program that I can use on my iPad and display on my desktop/external display (which, since they're more than five years old, are scrap AFA Apple is concerned).
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#78I 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 want that temporally and semantically linked set of activities to appear on a timeline with links to and from the various tools I use
Sounds like what you want is a repeatable, digital workflow. Using workflow software like Process Street (https://process.st) you can build that documentation as part of performing the work itself. You could capture, say, the AWS policies you create and the ARNs they’re associated with in the workflow. You could automate integrations with Jira (or just about anything if you use Zapier) as steps are completed. You can start off simple and build on as you go.
Disclaimer: I work for Process Street.
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#79Not sure if this qualifies but I'm using www.photopea.com a lot these days after switching to Linux.
It's an online replacement for Photoshop fyi and comes pretty close.
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#80CyberChef ( https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ ) has almost everything I need. It is described as "The Cyber Swiss Army Knife".
"Triple DES Encrypt" "Enter your Key and hit Bake!"
Nice try, national intelligence agency... nice try...