catchmeifyoucan

I think a slack clone with better message search, a company knowledgebase, and a personal “auto-responder” could be a winner

This looks great! I'm trying to open a video to test it out. My VSCode seems to open, but the session doesn't launch. Am I missing something?

I've been waiting for something like this for ages. Hope there's auto-playing video ads too

I never played RCT, I thought this was really fun and was hooked for a good minute.

Ran smoothly on MBP M1+Chrome. I couldn't figure out how to start the kiddie rides or get people through the doors initially. It might be fun to have some kind of daily challenge or competing with other parks. I found clicking in the 3D space to a little tricky.

Wow, the first three "bugs" on this are so spot on.

The Apple Pay Card icon that changes addresses always gets me. It's not what I would expect it to do.

If you don't know what Maestro is:

Maestro is an open-source framework that makes UI and end-to-end testing for Android, iOS, and web apps simple and fast. Write your first test in under five minutes using YAML flows and run them on any emulator, simulator, or browser.

https://github.com/mobile-dev-inc/Maestro

I wonder if we can write an API w/ JSON the usual way and change the final packaging to send it over protobuf.

I think this is cool! Honestly it’s one less click back into an IDE. I think I’d still have to hop back to commit to git, but it’d save me all the copy+paste time (esp w/ css styles).

I hope there’s a right click, “edit JSX” button.

Hooray! Yeah, give it a try.

Oh I love this. And it'd be really cool to see that.

The current output isn't a particular format. It's purely text output that looks like this.

1:01 -----|A1--B1|----A3--A4|

1:03 -----|A1--B1|--A3--A4|---B2|

If you had a way to copy and paste that as a string of notes and visualize in a loop or some-how that might work. You'd have to figure out how long a note was pressed etc, so it may require some extra logic.

Oh yes, there's a lot of songs that are published in the tutorial video format, but the MIDI source isn't shared.

I’ve always struggled to keep up with piano tutorial videos. The notes fall too fast to make any sense for me.

So I put together a small tool called Piano Reader to see if it could catch the chords and notes.

More technical post here: https://www.heyraviteja.com/post/portfolio/piano-reader/

I like this, and much needed.

That said, a simple hosted demo or code-sandbox would make this easier to demo and test as a user. It'd help to see the expected behavior as well. I don't want to checkout the repo or spin up a sandbox.

Huge inspiration! I loved the anyon_e videos. He DIY'ed the laptop and made it look really nice.

Thanks for sharing! Agree, building hardware hasn't been the easiest thing.

Interesting, I like the idea of a custom screen on the Framework. I'm sure that may come with its own challenges as well :)

I've been working on an e-ink laptop. I wanted a machine I could stare hours at and feel okay about it. I didn't seem to find a device like that out there.

I'm designing everything from the chassis to the software OS. E-ink has its own design constraints. I'm building 5 apps for it: a browser, reader, mail, writer and code editor. It's still a ways to go. Here's a picture of what I have so far:

https://www.heyraviteja.com/kitiki.png

I have a 25.3. Flicker issue is real. I’ll have to try this out. Thanks for sharing

I wonder if I could write my own software for this car? Like auto-sensing rain-wipers with an Arduino or something, and if the CAN BUS protocol isn't super hard to use. This would be a car hacking dream.

This looks cool! I really like that I can add my face + video. Curious if this is all done in the browser or if the recording is streamed back to a server?

Also, it doesn't seem like it's loading as expected for me. I'm seeing an error in the console, and my recording isn't playing back.

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 ()

Adding one more more web based tool for screen-caps as gifs: https://gifcap.dev/

I have to share that my career as a software engineer started with Windows Phone. They used to give super nice Nokia phones out if you made an app. And free backpacks :)

Developing for Windows phone was easy as drag and drop. I honestly think no other native platform had that good of a DevEx. If you were already an app developer, I can see how it's hard to learn something new. But if it was your first time, this was prolly the easiest platform to start.

Eventually the platform died, and I found a career with Xamarin using a similar stack (C#, XAML) and built for other platforms as well.

I miss Windows Phone. Honestly some of the cleanest devices ever built with the carl zeiss lens and raised screen.

From a developer perspective, I like magic links. They help verify an e-mail address, and log you in at the same time.

I've been looking for something like this. Looking forward to trying it out

I'm working on this project right now - and I'm looking at everything from chassis to screen from scratch. (unfortunately, v0.1 here is probably going to be B&W). Hoping to have a working prototype in the next few months.

WavShare is probably my rec for e-ink screens and drivers (https://www.waveshare.com/13.3inch-e-paper.htm). You can find those with partial refreshes and HDMI driver boards.

For the driver - the Glider project has some good progress to drive the display and how-tos. See https://gitlab.com/zephray/glider

Agree with other comments - MacOS and other existing software aren't designed for this - I'm writing my own. Scrolling, mouse-dragging and dark mode are just a few of the annoyances. (I have the Dasung 25" as well and it gets frustrating).

Also happy to hop on a call and chat more about this stuff

really cool! Can't wait to use this for my next musical learnings

I built a Figma plugin that makes it easier to upload and host and manage images from Figma.

https://figmage.com

On most monitors I've been using these days, I keep scaling the resolution down. I've noticed that the bigger the text, the more comfortable my eyes feel. I still prefer a good high-res monitor because it scales down with less blur

This looks really awesome! Can't wait to try it out. I've worked with React-Native-Web and Nativebase in the past, and it was always fragmented. I'm glad you're working on this. Zero was mentioned a lot in the demo and it seems impressive.

Love this the most:

almost all features can be built completely client-side, with no need for new server-side APIs

Any thoughts on a desktop target for this (e.g Electron/or Webview Desktop target)?

I have a Dasung e-ink monitor. It's great for typing, but you'll have to use a white background to get good contrast

Great write-up, I've been looking for a solution like this for adding syncing to my local-app!

I love that it's document stored in S3, and it's probably going to be way cheaper than if hosted elsewhere in a database. Can't wait to try it out soon