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Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
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#142An open source, downloadable and fine-tunable github copilot openai codex model that I can use locally and offline, if I wanted to.
So far I can't rely on copilot because at any time for any reason they can cut off access or change the functionality. Also, the waitlist.
A requirement of the GPL is that they are supposed to release the model but so far I have been unable to find it. There's some kind of "debate" about this but the GPL is absolutely clear in this regard. I'm confused.
copilot is awesome for (lazy) senior devs who want the no-code experience, meaning not having to look up easily forgettable things. How many times have you've forgotten RegEx or how to check for a file exists in bash? Simple put "#Check if file 'filename.txt' exists if not error" and it will complete the bash line. Convert dates in javascript without going to the mdn docs, etc.
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#143A CLI tool that can be used to observe and act on the return code and/or output of any CLI tool on Linux. It should have a way to notify [1] the user after a long-running CLI program terminates on Linux. It would have similar semantics to the time utility. Let's call this tool timed . For instance, prefixing any task with the time utility e.g. "time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" would output the duration of the underly…
ntfy already supports sending messages after long running commands:
ntfy done sleep 10
ntfy_done_output() {
local TEMP_FILE="$(mktemp)" SUCCESS LOG
"${@}" 2>&1 | tee "${TEMP_FILE}"
SUCCESS="$((!PIPESTATUS[0]))"
LOG="$(curl -fLX POST -T- Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
#144A CLI tool that can be used to observe and act on the return code and/or output of any CLI tool on Linux. It should have a way to notify [1] the user after a long-running CLI program terminates on Linux. It would have similar semantics to the time utility. Let's call this tool timed . For instance, prefixing any task with the time utility e.g. "time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" would output the duration of the underly…
You can use Cronitor like this.
1. Create a free monitor and activate an on-complete callback (telegram, slack, or webhook.
2. Install CronitorCli (a single statically linked golang binary)
3. Run any command using Cronitor exec:
cronitor exec dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
You can be alerted on failure, on success, or on start, or any combination of those.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bit like that. But for web dev, not sales intelligence. And, most importantly: fully offline (so you can be sure nobody learns about the sites you visit).
Not sure what you mean by sales intelligence; builtwith shows frameworks, web server tech, etc.
Ah ok, I stand corrected. Looks like I’ve been misled by their pitch, which focuses heavily on the recon-for-more-leads aspect.
Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
#146Think of all the dev tools you use (debugging, code navigation, etc). Then pick a literate programming system (e.g. org mode with Babel). How many of those dev tools can you use? In my experience: Almost none. A trivial example: Running the tangled code, and getting errors. I know the error is in line 1234, but how do I map that line number to the line in some particular code block? This is the primary thing holding…
First: source maps. Second: have you tried creating another git repository inside a gitignored directory?
The files I need to track cannot be confined to a single directory. Some of them will coexist with source code files.
Will look into source maps, but the principle applies to all aspects of literate programming. When editing a source block, linter tools go crazy because they see me use variables that to them appear to not have been assigned to (they were assigned to in other source code blocks).
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#147I want a tool that lets me annotate a codebase but with the notes stored locally and not in the code. This would mostly be for corporate code bases so I can take notes/ leave more explicit warnings for others. Less "Turns markdown into react components" and more "If you have to touch this, you need to go to file x, add it there" I understand this is imperfect but so is the codebase I work on.
> Less "Turns markdown into react components" and more "If you have to touch this, you need to go to file x, add it there"
I assume you’re being concerned specifically about the tone and style of your copy possibly coming across as maybe too casual and not professional enough. Please don’t be concerned.
A corporate environment doesn’t mean your inline or block comments need to be polished, bureaucratic, or conforming to some style policy. Whoever reads your code and comments is going to appreciate a helpful hint just like you and I would.
If I came across a block comment that told me the thing you mentioned, chances are I’d just feel grateful and appreciate the simple, no-bullshit guidance you afforded me.
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#148Remember the early web, when people used to look at existing websites to learn how it was done? “View Source” used to be a career-starter for a lot of people, but has become largely useless today due to transpilation, frameworks, and other abstraction layers. I’d love to see a browser extension provide an “Explain Source” context menu item, which sends you to a pane in Developer Tools that shows: - an estimation whic…
Not only explain the source, but also format and present it in a nicer way. Many websites’ code now are minified so I have to copy and paste it around then manually clean it up before I can start reading it.
My experience is; view-source gives the downloaded html (&css &js). It will show a js function which adds some html elements to dom. So for example view-source migjt never show a specific div with text. I usually go by inspect element, because that shows that shows whats rendered, what we actually see on dom.
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#149Git alternative that works with GitHub but isn't git
Try Jujutsu https://github.com/martinvonz/jj
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#150Git alternative that works with GitHub but isn't git
isnt't git good enough? didn't get your point