I have a side project slightly similar to the functionality your tool offers focused on expense tracking (or other measures) over time, adding date parsing to the equation in order to plot metrics into a graph and with tags and locations for filtering.
Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
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Re: Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
#12I have a side project slightly similar to the functionality your tool offers focused on expense tracking (or other measures) over time, adding date parsing to the equation in order to plot metrics into a graph and with tags and locations for filtering.
Nice! Can you send a link or is it still in development?
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#13Nice. Could this be done with a VS Code extension ?
I've never made a VS Code extension, but I think it would be possible; no plans to do so currently though.
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#14Nice. Could this be done with a VS Code extension ?
there are several inline repl extensions, for many many programming languages. One of the first ones to do it was clojure, imitating the lighttable IDE. I believe you will find similar ones for other languages
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#15Hey, great tool!
Just a little bug: I found that if I click a number to copy, then click it again, I'll get the original string in my clipboard concatenated with " Copied!"
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#16Why limit it to arithmetic? Looks much like the original idea behind lighttable IDE which is basically a REPL plugin that allows to evaluate certain lines within it. There are several similar projects around.
Because Turing completeness scares me!
I was a big fan of Light Table when it first came out and the developers behind it have gone on to do some really interesting things, but I want to keep this project more limited in scope for now.
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#17Looks nice! Making the result blocks non-text is handy. Any plans to open source this or sell a desktop version? I've long been a fan of http://calca.io but it doesn't run on Linux. There's some other versions out there but they tend to be flaky.
Glad you like it! I've got a desktop version in the works, and if the web version gets enough interest I'll finish it off.
Finish it off sounds like you are going to kill it ;)
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#18Hey, great tool! Just a little bug: I found that if I click a number to copy, then click it again, I'll get the original string in my clipboard concatenated with " Copied!"
Glad you like it! Thank you for the bug report, I'll get it fixed shortly
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#19I like this! One thing that would be nice is a time zone converter. For example:
8:00pm 24 Aug Toronto time in Dubai time
And have the conversion show up.
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#20Looks very interesting. I think there is some ambiguity with respect to currency symbols, $ converts to USD and £ to GBP. However, depending on user location those symbols can be used to mean very different currencies.