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Someone should make a site where user's share pieces of code and explain why it's awesome. Allow people to comment etc. I want to read more code, but don't have

by Hates_ 16y ago

Someone should make a site where user's share pieces of code and explain why it's awesome. Allow people to comment etc. I want to read more code, but don't have to time to go find it.

there 16y ago
so, the opposite of http://refactormycode.com/ http://refactormycode.com/
lawn 16y ago
Ah I would love that. Opportunity for a startup maybe?
aarongough 16y ago
I started work on it straight after I read your comment... With some luck I should have a minimal version finished by this afternoon. I'll post a link here as a response!
- inerte 16y ago
  I thought about doing this project in the past and I really wanted something on the opposite side of Daily WTF (the code, not the stories). I remember reading about Quake's inverse square root ( http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-quakes-fast-inverse-square-root/ http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-quakes-fas... ) and how a website should be dedicated to beautiful code. I've never got into thinking what features the site should or should not have, for example: comments? forum-like interface? code-wiki so people can improve the submission? user submitted code? editor reviewed, crowd votting? tags to classify code? tales of adoption in production?
  - aarongough 16y ago
    So far I'v got threaded comments, rating of code and comments, flagging, GitHub integration and a very ugly layout :-p The actual functional side of the code is almost done. I'll be starting work on graphic design/layout in the next hour or so. I'd be interested to hear feature requests...
    - mistermann 16y ago
      This will be a brilliant site if you can pull it off nicely, keep on it!
gnubardt 16y ago
Sounds like Beautiful Code (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046). Maybe if a user's submission becomes well liked they could be asked to write a more in-depth explanation or article.
jcooney 16y ago
Two of my friends are working on a "am I hot or not" for code that (AFAIK) has features like this. The url is http://codesmackdown.com/ http://codesmackdown.com/ but there is nothing there yet. Hopefully me posting this on-line will get them to get off their ass and release something.
- LeonB 16y ago
  Yeh, myself and another guy are writing a 'codesmackdown' site (source code here: http://bitbucket.org/OJ/codesmackdown http://bitbucket.org/OJ/codesmackdown ) as a side-project, not as a money-maker, entirely for fun. Life keeps getting in the way though. So far the only good thing to come out of this project is that I wrote a cheatsheet for mercurial, as I'm a noob and keen to help other noobs ;-) http://www.secretgeek.net/mercurial_flow.asp http://www.secretgeek.net/mercurial_flow.asp
naa42 16y ago
http://literateprograms.org http://literateprograms.org

by Hates_ 16y ago

Someone should make a site where user's share pieces of code and explain why it's awesome. Allow people to comment etc. I want to read more code, but don't have to time to go find it.

there 16y ago

so, the opposite of http://refactormycode.com/ http://refactormycode.com/

lawn 16y ago

Ah I would love that. Opportunity for a startup maybe?

aarongough 16y ago

I started work on it straight after I read your comment... With some luck I should have a minimal version finished by this afternoon. I'll post a link here as a response!

inerte 16y ago
I thought about doing this project in the past and I really wanted something on the opposite side of Daily WTF (the code, not the stories). I remember reading about Quake's inverse square root ( http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-quakes-fast-inverse-square-root/ http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-quakes-fas... ) and how a website should be dedicated to beautiful code. I've never got into thinking what features the site should or should not have, for example: comments? forum-like interface? code-wiki so people can improve the submission? user submitted code? editor reviewed, crowd votting? tags to classify code? tales of adoption in production?
- aarongough 16y ago
  So far I'v got threaded comments, rating of code and comments, flagging, GitHub integration and a very ugly layout :-p The actual functional side of the code is almost done. I'll be starting work on graphic design/layout in the next hour or so. I'd be interested to hear feature requests...
  - mistermann 16y ago
    This will be a brilliant site if you can pull it off nicely, keep on it!

gnubardt 16y ago

Sounds like Beautiful Code (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046). Maybe if a user's submission becomes well liked they could be asked to write a more in-depth explanation or article.

jcooney 16y ago

Two of my friends are working on a "am I hot or not" for code that (AFAIK) has features like this. The url is http://codesmackdown.com/ http://codesmackdown.com/ but there is nothing there yet. Hopefully me posting this on-line will get them to get off their ass and release something.

LeonB 16y ago
Yeh, myself and another guy are writing a 'codesmackdown' site (source code here: http://bitbucket.org/OJ/codesmackdown http://bitbucket.org/OJ/codesmackdown ) as a side-project, not as a money-maker, entirely for fun. Life keeps getting in the way though. So far the only good thing to come out of this project is that I wrote a cheatsheet for mercurial, as I'm a noob and keen to help other noobs ;-) http://www.secretgeek.net/mercurial_flow.asp http://www.secretgeek.net/mercurial_flow.asp

naa42 16y ago

http://literateprograms.org http://literateprograms.org