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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by innertracks »

iamleppert wrote: post #108

Kespry - http://www.kespry.com/ We provide a drone to the (primarily aggregates/mining) industry that can create highly detailed survey quality maps. Our customers can use the data in measuring the volume of their material (stockpiles) and in planning a big project, construction, etc. Basically anything you can imagine someone would need information about a physical location from above. We develop the full stack in h…

Sounds fun! I've been thinking of ways and places to mix my database, software dev, and commercial pilot/flight instructor backgrounds.

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Post by bonquesha99 »

hokkos wrote: post #418
bonquesha99 wrote: post #178

Misc tools to make development more efficient: https://github.com/shuber/owners - Take ownership of your code! Knowing who owns a project or section of a code base is very helpful when asking questions or requesting feedback. This gem allows developers to define OWNERS files throughout their repository to provide a human and machine readable way to determine who the maintainers are for specific files of code. https:/…

Your monolith project seems very interesting to me, because I have 3 repos for components of a common project that leaded to duplicated code. But I also regret to have added some assets code that lead to a massive and slow repo, so it seems it is also possible to filter the history from some directories but I am not quite sure from your description.

Nice, we had a similar issue which is why we decided to merge the repositories. It makes sharing code, extracting shared dependencies, and reviewing PRs so much easier when you can see changes across all projects in one diff!

You can absolutely filter the history from some directories by specifying a script to run after the repositories have been cloned. In your monolith.yml you can add something like:

  # Optional list of commands to run right after
  # all of the repositories above have been cloned.
  #
  # These are handy for things like rewriting history
  # to remove large unused files or sensitive information.
  after_clone:
    - ./remove_large_assets
Then define the `remove_large_assets` script in whatever language you want and have it run the appropriate git commands to filter that history!

After the files are filtered, the monolith repository will be generated without all that junk that was bloating your git history.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by ganarajpr »

I worked on this a couple of weeks back and its almost complete - but I thought I would share it with the world.

Good for JSX projects transpiled using Babel

https://github.com/ganarajpr/gotofile-chrome

Its a set of 3 plugins ( chrome plugin, atom plugin and Babel plugin) that allow you to jump to the right JS file in your editor directly from chrome. I was thinking how would View Source look if it was implemented in this new world of Front End JS. . This should provide a more seamless experience of going from the Browser to your editor. Would love any feedback on the experience or any enhancement requests.

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Post by nedwin »

hoodoof wrote: post #274

I'm not working on it but one idea is "camp country" in which farmers, country and rural landowners offer their land for camping for a small fee. Anyone this this is a good idea?

I'm into it - you should check out HipCamp.com who are doing something similar.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by tristanburnside »

Chocolate

https://github.com/TristanBurnside/Chocolate

An iOS framework where UI is designed in Interface Builder and all functionality is defined in blocks that are automatically run asynchronously on a background thread.

This allows developers to avoid creating massive view controllers by never creating any view controllers at all.

Still a WIP and TableViewControllers and most of the view controller lifecycle events are not yet supported.

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Post by lcall »

OneModel - "atomic knowledge", or a new way to manage knowledge by looking at it differently. The vision subsumes essentially all KM & notetaking etc products, and the current iteration is a text-mode bare AGPL3 app that I use every day (no mobile support yet, other features still in the pipeline...).

Hopefully explained at the site "About" link and its links (if not let me know!): http://onemodel.org

(ps: I'd love to talk about funding etc.)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by tezzer »

brobinson wrote: post #393
tezzer wrote: post #119

Wave Gliders: http://www.liquid-robotics.com It's a wave-powered, autonomous sensor platform built for longevity at sea. We do things like monitor salinity in the arctic, circle oil platforms looking for leaks, track tagged mammals on migration, and do coordinated fleet maneuvers for ocean floor mapping and exploration.

Wow, your ASW platform is great. I'm assuming it's passive sonar? People definitely do not appreciate the fact that a single boomer sub could effectively end a country on 30 minutes notice.

We're researching a number of different ideas in that space, with a couple of different high profile customers, so I can't say much in public at the moment!
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