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Congrats on launching!

I've wanted exactly-this for years. I've sketched a few versions but it stayed on the back-burner for me, partly because friends/etc didn't see the appeal.

I'm really excited to try it out.

Whoa, NodeBox! Back when I was doing my first big coding project, NodeBox 1's Linguistics library was really helpful for me. (https://www.nodebox.net/code/index.php/Linguistics.html)

The library bundles WordNet (using Oliver Steele's PyWordNet), NLTK, Damian Conway's pluralisation rules, Bermi Ferrer's singularization rules, Jason Wiener's Brill tagger, several algorithms adopted from Michael Granger's Ruby Linguistics module, John Wiseman's implementation of the Regressive Imagery Dictionary, Charles K. Ogden's list of basic English words, and Peter Norvig's spelling corrector.

It was in college and I was learning to code as I went (I was a humanities/lit major). I was using NLTK and some other libraries, piece-wise, but NodeBox Linguistics bundled libraries I couldn't get working/installing right at the time. (I could not afford a Mac so I was working in a Linux VM. Although its GUI is Mac-only, the NodeBox libraries aren't Mac-only. Just noting that for passers-by.)

NodeBox Linguistics proved to be critical-path to the project. And that project was formative for me, so it gives me the warm-fuzzies to encounter NodeBox again. Thank you for sharing it! I should join the forum...

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More info about NodeBox 1 libraries:

Libraries, add-ons and extensions that make complex things like image manipulation, vector drawing and linguistics easy.

https://www.nodebox.net/code/index.php/Library.html

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I do use Mac these days but cross-platform note:

- NodeBox 1's libraries are not all Mac-only

- NodeBox GL has cross-platform libraries (though its GUI is Mac-only)

In a Chrome browser on desktop, you can right click and "Copy Link to Highlighted Text". That's the context (hah, pun) where I know it from. It's really useful!

Thank you for posting those two, I wanted to post them but I don't comment often. Wanted to chip in another contemporary: edelvalle/reactor, which is inspired by LiveView[0].

[0] https://github.com/edelvalle/reactor

I am using Hotwire for a project, and I'm learning Elixir and Phoenix on the side. Finding edelvalle/reactor was immediately helpful to me though, because I cut my teeth on Python/Django, so reading a Python reference implementation helps me learn nuts and bolts of libraries, faster. (so, I figure that this might help someone else grok how these approaches work.)

BitWiz is an ios app that lets you play with bytebeat stuff. I've spent a lot of time with it (though, mostly years ago).

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bitwiz-audio-synth/id522046655

Yes And! https://github.com/terkelg/awesome-creative-coding

GitSense seems very useful. Constructive feedback about the UI: replace the (straggler?) serif font with the sans serif font you're using elsewhere on the page

Enforcement has problems. The enforcement tends to reproduce existing power structures, including both racist policing and classist policing.

Well put!

Agreed. I really detest how the word "democratize" got buzzed to death. It's become a zombie marketing term, and it wraps familiar ideology with vague associations of a rallying cry. Better phrasing maybe: it's a zombie marketing term that became a persistent and damaging bit of propaganda/ ideological meme.

Saw an interesting post on this topic, on HN, today:

https://infrequently.org/2020/09/the-pursuit-of-appiness/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26578458

Re: modulating all the things, Bitwig is pretty great (compare to Ableton)

Anybody here remember Beyond the Mind's Eye etc? (Some of the same clips were used in Lawnmower Man). I found a VHS of it at a Good Will. Made a music video chopping it up (2011):

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrR6kCikmwc

Here's my other music video, way better track and video:

- https://vimeo.com/19813642 "Ferns", music video by Steph D.

Two free albums -- psychedelic beats (Sea Things) and ambient (Tunnel Visions). They're both on Bandcamp:

- https://seathings.bandcamp.com (2010)

- https://tunnelvisionsmusic.bandcamp.com

Both albums are mostly instrumental.

- http://sunbather.biz ← old music portfolio site, links to everything mentioned in this comment.

Other retro nostalgia things: I did a lil track w/ Julian Wass where we sampled MIDI and speech from Dark Seed (old point and click DOS game that oddly had art direction by H.R. Geiger). We had more planned but I'm glad we made this one. https://cyberdreams.bandcamp.com/

Also, the last track on that Tunnel Visions album is based on a sample from Star Tropics, if anyone remembers that game :)

I've been stealthy since ~2015. I'm still making stuff, so I have a big backlog. Which is a fun problem to have. Once I get a business off the ground... then I'm gonna start releasing stuff again. (New project(s).)

I got into beatmaking in 7th grade with FL Studio FKA Fruity Loops. In college, it was actually a Max/MSP class that motivated me to learn code. </waxing-nostalgic>

p.s. I've always wanted to make soundtracks for indie games. If anybody's looking, LMK. I have a lot of stuff in the backlog that I could take in that direction.

Thank you for sharing this stack! I'm a Pythonista at heart, recently was trying RxDB + TypeScript, and I was thinking hmm I'll bet I could do something with postgres and Pydantic.

You are not alone!

And I am very, very pissed off at the neglect of Google Classroom's UI. I wish they had (and would still) stay out of education, it's so irresponsible to half-ass it like they have.

Google Classroom's UI problems have got to be negatively impacting kids' schooling. It's unethical.

Comparing to a $GOOG tablet would raise privacy questions pretty quickly, I think

This isn't an A vs B thing to me, it's just that comparing to an ipad says something to a lot of users, and quickly. If this project succeeds, it will give some alternatives to closed-ecosystem things, to new/other people (with a cheaper cost to them). So the reservations about Apple are actually reasons to support this project, in that way. Thoughts?

It's great to give feedback, it's also good to remember: not every distro (or project, in general) is trying to court every user or every audience. To me that's the beauty of FOSS, it's open ended.

Two bandaids that have helped me:

- On a large file, or in a slow project, put the Inspection Level down a notch. (You can get to it from the Actions keyboard shortcut.) You can nudge it back up, including for whatever big file -- when needed.

- Install the plug-in "Automatic Power Saver," which does that automatically upon loss of focus. (Well, maybe down two notches?) I do notice the switch/transition sometimes but it makes my overall session so much smoother (mainly because browser and IDE aren't being slower than their combined slowness)

p.s. I've been dealing with JetBrains IDEs' slowness for 5+ years, have done the same workarounds you mentioned etc. I always have another fast editor set up, lately VS Code. For quick edits etc. I had a coworker who would use their JetBrains IDE only for the last stretch of their branch or ticket -- to get the inspections and other tools. I supposed I picked this up from them.

I am so glad to learn about these features in Rust and Elixir. I'm coming from Python originally, so I always want them!

https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html

https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/doctest.html

Thank you for ripgrep! I will mention it in that thread too but I'm AFK so before I forget...

I'm imagining a "drill down" TUI with rg and fzf. fzf can be good for both filenames and other filter-downs. Thinking of breadcrumbs and easily stepping forward or backward, ability to easily bookmark/"pin" parts of search paths as presets for easy reuse later, etc.

EDIT: I recognize this would be outside of the scope of rg itself, I'm voicing it in case it sparks ideas about the functionality you're thinking of adding. I'll think more about it and see if I can explain better

Something that is not by Google but which you would probably like - SourceGraph. Has commercial options but it is OSS.

https://about.sourcegraph.com/

Maybe you saw it but no need to sigh anymore:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22551856

https://opensource.google

There is another discussion right now that needs to be x-linked here. On burnout.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20300509

My head is nodding at the intention here, but it's important to remember this reactionary attitude can be damaging as well. That is missing from the post.

Specifically, reactionary conservatism about tools and services can be a competitive disadvantage.

In several workplaces I have seen this attitude co-mingle with pride in original code, and result in a counter-productive NIH (Not Invented Here)[0] attitude (reinventing wheels). Macho/heroism makes it worse.

While trend-following can be inefficient, if the engineers are both excited and humble and ready to weigh many trade-offs, this inefficiency might be "cheaper" than reinventing wheels for all problems.

Cue platitude: it takes balance :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here

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EDIT:

To clarify I'm talking especially about _uninteresting problems,_ for which there may be an obvious off-the-shelf solution, such as when I've seen engineers invent a build system from scratch (and then cost _lots_ over years as that custom thing needs maintenance) ... when their needs could have been met by the language's standard tooling and using its plugin architecture.

Or, when "just use sticky notes and a whiteboard" gets so stubborn that a growing team stays in chaos for lack of organization.

On the other hand, it is quite bad when trend-following causes not just churn (switching tools), but overkill that introduces tons of cost and risk. i.e. distributed systems where you didn't need one. Relevant on this point: You Are Not Google by Ozan Onay https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb

As far as I know if it is extracted from hemp only, and the label says 0% THC from a reputable analysis company, those tests will not show it.

Your sample size for this claim is a bit small...

Anecdotal, but... It’s worked for me and several people I am close with, over several years.

Look for “USP Certified”. NatureMade is a popular brand that tends to have this. Costco brand (Kirkland) also often does - note that Kirkland prices are cheap in Costco but not so much on Amazon (resold or something). If you have a Costco near you, it is a very cost effective way to get fresh food and supplements. It’s silly but it really helped me become healthier, because I stopped being hesitant about the price (I was raised in a not-well-off household... the mental barrier can be pretty strong even though it’s irrational vs wastes of money that are neutral or harm health, while nutrition is very helpful and a pretty good bang for buck)

Typo in point number 3 there? Confused

This thread is a great example of why I love hackernews. It's these curious ones.