Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

numpad.io

21–30 of 246 posts

Re: Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

#21
Nice - I'll give it props for:

> 1 metre + 8 chain = 161.9344 m

> 1 tonne + 1 short ton = 1.90718474 t

> 1 tonne + 1 long ton = 2.0160469 t

and give it a pass for not supporting pre 1963 UK | US historic weights and measures .. that's getting into a pretty specific use case where Standards nerds like to have a clear display of what conversion factors are in play and what provenance those factors have.

Time Zone support (on your About ToDo) will be interesting, historic computations with daytime savings support will be a quagmnire :-)

The SHARE DOC URLs seem a bit long - something like "base64 full text of doc as an URL" I guess.

Will this hit a URL length limit if widespread use becomes a thing?

jq play : https://jqplay.org/s/f1r-BZ5xYd2

regex101 : https://regex101.com/r/OqojJl/1

do server side storage and doc hash .. which has issues of its own.

Re: Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

#23
post #11

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.

I'm (slowly) working on something that can eat up PSD2 data from banks and parse it into some usable data, but I'm bad at nicely presenting stuff. It would be great to see your tool and get some inspiration, or maybe even use it.

Re: Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

#28
Very cool! Some ideas:

1. Doesn't seem to support area conversions (tried 400 square meters, 400 m^2, and abbreviations in between).

2. If I only give a time, it would be more useful if it gave a time-only result rather than defaulting to the current date - unless it rolls over to a different date. (E.g. in Soulver, "2:30pm + 20hr" gives "Tomorrow at 10:30".)

3. It would be nice to support multiple abbreviations for minutes (mn/min are both used in various countries).

Re: Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

#29

Very cool! This reminds me of the open source NoteCalc: https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/ It was discussed on HN, you might look there for inspiration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25495393

I hadn't seen that before, it's very impressive!
Post reply on HN