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by bbodi 3y ago
After years of procrastination, I've decided to dust off my little app, write documentation for it, and release the latest version, as it contains many useful improvements and features [0] that could be beneficial for many people. [0]:
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NoteCalc 0.4.0(bbodi.github.io)
4 points by bbodi 3y ago|2 comments
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by bbodi 4y ago
I am the author of NoteCalc, and it warms my heart that my project is mentioned here :) As a sidenote I would like to mention that NoteCalc is still in active (but slow) development, though I do it privately, and the next big release will b
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by bbodi 5y ago
If everybody adds his/her rust+wasm+calculator projects in the comments, let me jump in as well with mine :) https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/ Nice work btw!
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by bbodi 6y ago
author here: I have zero experience with Visual Studio API, and honestly, looking at what a giant and slow mess VS became, I would not even try it :) But providing a standalone desktop/terminal version is on the list.
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by bbodi 6y ago
Hi, it would not be hard at all, at the moment for me it would be like 1 day of work. Honestly, I just don't see its benefit, you can always open it on a dedicated browser and use it as it would be a desktop app. However, in the next r
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by bbodi 6y ago
Since others already mentioned many fantastic alternatives, let me share mine: https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/
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by bbodi 6y ago
Hi, thanks :) Why WASM: One of the primary goal of NoteCalc is to be easily accessible (e.g. it was mainly born because Soulver is MacOS only). So the browser-based client was obvious choice, and I chosed WASM for - performance reasons - to
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by bbodi 6y ago
Originally NoteCalc used a library for handling arbitrarily large numbers. Unfortunately, some operations were so slow that as a quick fix, I replaced the library with a lighter one without dynamic allocations (which is 96 bit integer with
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by bbodi 6y ago
yeah why not :) I added it to my todo.
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by bbodi 6y ago
Thanks for noticing it! Unfortunately it seems units cannot be applied to function results. It must be fixed, I noted down, thanks!
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by bbodi 6y ago
One of my primary design goal was something like that: "My mother should be able to use this tool to calculate/plan her vacation expenses". (My mother is older and not a tech guru you can guess :)) So the primary focus are on
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by bbodi 6y ago
Yes this will be, thanks :)
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by bbodi 6y ago
In your case syntax highlighting helps. Everything which is not part of a calculation is rendered as a simple text (greyish): [image]( https://trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/558a94779b3b3c5d... ) But yes I admit it takes
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by bbodi 6y ago
I take it as a huge compliment :) Pasting should work with simple texts, what was the issue? Don't hesitate to open an Issue in GitHub if something does not work. https://github.com/bbodi/notecalc3/issues
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by bbodi 6y ago
Thanks, you are right, I did not notice but yes it could be annoying. The reason is that the content of the note is stored in the URL so it is easy to share it by sending the url to friends. So the URL changes basically on every modificatio
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by bbodi 6y ago
Hi, Not yet, it is on my list, but unfortunately with a low priority. But fortunately, the whole architecture was designed with the terminal in mind: - 99% of the functionalty is implemented as a lib, and just a tiny part is responsible f
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Show HN: NoteCalc(github.com)
267 points by bbodi 6y ago|76 comments
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NoteCalc: A handy notepad with a smart builtin calculator in the browser(bbodi.github.io)
2 points by bbodi 6y ago|0 comments