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Show HN: A Drum Listening Game

eliasdorneles.com

1 pointsby eliasdorneles6 miesięcy temu4 comments

Show HN: TUI personal monthly budget planner

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4 pointsby eliasdornelesw zeszłym roku0 comments

Show HN: UPiano, a Piano in Your Terminal

github.com

8 pointsby eliasdorneles3 lata temu0 comments

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2 miesiące temudiscuss

Those relationships are the ones who hurt the most when they end.

4 miesiące temudiscuss

> My question is: Is thinking about music as applied mathematics a good way to create good music? Or is it just the most easily digestible model of music for the crowd on this site?

You are probably aware that there are these things called synthesizers, which exist both hardware and software, complex pieces of technology that can shape sound. There are people who are specialized in creating them (with code and/or electronics), people who are specialized in programming them (creating presets) and people who excel in using them to make music. And many more different profiles who are in between. Each will care about different aspects, they all contribute to making music.

Life is not black and white, and music neither. What is even "good music"? What is your mental model for "the crowd on this site"? In your questions, aren't you reducing the possibilities of learning by putting these into boxes?

The world is big, life is rich and people are much more diverse than what one typically perceives.

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

Tbh I've only personally tested on Firefox (desktop and mobile) on Linux and Android, and some friends tried on Chrome. I'm going to install Chromium and see if I can reproduce -- thanks!

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

Thanks for trying it out and thank you for the honest feedback.

That's interesting, many friends of mine tested it and nobody reported an issue with loading. (Btw I wrote the audio loading code more than 10 years ago, it wasn't written by any LLM -- you're free to judge tho)

Yes, the +22 at the top means the remaining levels. I need to clarify that, you're the second person that seems confused by it.

Thank you again for the feedback.

8 miesięcy temudiscuss

I second that! I was trying Zig for some small projects, but ended up switching to Odin, because I found it much more comfortable!

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Fair point, my example was indeed "shipped to production" and may not compare a throwaway static generator toy project.

I still think those estimates are off, because I think many of those projects would need significant research and learning time, possibly more than actually coding -- not to mention time spent troubleshooting when something goes wrong.

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I quite enjoy the spirit of the article, and I believe joy in programming has become even more important in the AI agent coding age we're leaving.

However, am I the only one finding those time estimates way too short?

I'm not the fastest programmer on Earth, but I'm not the slowest either, and I think most of those projects would take me a lot more time than those estimates, specially if I'd be working only 2-3 hours per day.

I feel most of those projects would take significant time researching and learning about the subjects, before even starting to code.

Example: recently I replaced my Pelican blog by my own hacky static site generator written in Odin, working 2-3h per day, it took me 2 weeks -- and this is a simpler project than many on that list.

3 lata temudiscuss

As far as I have explored the subject, the support for playing with the computer keyboard will probably be restricted to "simple plucking" (no support for "press and hold", and no velocity).

For keyboard expression, it will be simpler to just use MIDI input.

3 lata temudiscuss

Hello, author here

Not just yet, MIDI input is the next big feature I want to add! =)

("dang it!" protested a voice "i wanted this to be a surprise!! now, you've ruined it, announcing on HN...", "rhoo, it will be fine!" reassured another)

3 lata temudiscuss

> So you can play piano over SSH obviously!

Oh yeah, you can call some friends to login to the same server and play a concert over SSH!

3 lata temudiscuss

so cool! thanks for sharing that!

3 lata temudiscuss

Hello, the app creator here

> it hints at a latent desire for computing closer to how I enjoy it ;)

Agreed, same here!!

If you like this, you might also like my solitaire clone for the terminal: https://github.com/eliasdorneles/usolitaire =)

3 lata temudiscuss

Interesting, thanks, i'll have to check out how that works =)

3 lata temudiscuss

Hello, UPiano creator here =)

> Why insist on doing this inside a terminal... ?

Simple: because it's fun!

10 lat temudiscuss

Lombok is kinda bigger commitment than attrs, because it interfaces with Java compiler internals (last time I used it, it was only possible to compile with sun/oracle jdk).

attrs seems lesser risk IMO, it's just a plain Python library, no other deps.

If you like Lombok, I'd expect you'll love attrs. :)

10 lat temudiscuss

Hello, Hynek! Thanks for attrs, wonderful library!

I'd suggest to market the "serious business aliases" more prominently. It's not about aesthetics, but expectations: people like me are immediately puzzled by "attr.ib()", thinking "why ib?".

The reason is because after reading a lot of Python code, our brain is already trained to recognize attributes and method names after the dot.

Also, it's a reasonable expectation to be able to import a function or submodule and the code still make sense, but this won't make sense:

  from attr import s, ib

  @s
  class Thing(object):
      x = ib()

I understand it looks such a small thing for you and others already used to this DSL, and also that it's not the most important technical aspect of the library. However, I do think it's an important human aspect of it.

I have the feeling that by making the "no non-sense" alternative more prominent in the examples and documentation, it would reduce cognition steps for newbie users and maybe make your own life easier by not having to explain and paste this link every time someone finds it odd (which will probably continue to happen).

Cheers!

10 lat temudiscuss

I've also wrote about undoing things in Git and other productivity tips here: http://eliasdorneles.github.io/2016/06/19/on-getting-product...

10 lat temudiscuss

This story is simply badass!

10 lat temudiscuss

ahh, __VIEWSTATE, a pain in the butt for everyone doing webscraping of government official websites. :)

10 lat temudiscuss

There has been some discussions and a proof-of-concept with asyncio + aiohttp: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/pull/1455

However, as you said, it'd be a major change and it would affect the whole ecosystem (plugins and extensions), so it's complicated. We'll see what happens. :)