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   by lostintangent 6y ago

   Yeah that’s a great use case! Out of curiosity: what kind of screencasts/demos did you have in mind (e.g. web app development)? I just ask, since I’d love to think through if there are opportunities to improve the experience. Also, jus
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   by lostintangent 6y ago

   I’d love to collaborate with you on this! I’ll take a look at your project later this evening, since it might point at some improvements I can add to CodeSwing. Otherwise, I’ll be on the lookout for an issue or pull request from you soon :)
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   by lostintangent 6y ago

   Exactly! I'm a huge fan of CodePen/JSFiddle/etc., but wanted to have an experience that let me take advantage of my existing editor setup, in order to experiment with ideas or learn new things. I built CodeSwing to "scra
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   by lostintangent 6y ago

   Ah, got it. Apologies for misunderstanding! I'm currently working on the ability to export a swing to CodePen and Bl.ocks, so that you can create your swings in VS Code, and then share them with the appropriate communities. I should ha
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   by lostintangent 6y ago

   That's on the team's near-term roadmap :) In order to build full apps/projects, having an editor-integrated browser preview will be amazing! CodeSwing is really meant to enable component/snippet/sample development (
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   by lostintangent 6y ago

   Hey! By default, none of the current templates add any libraries to the swing. However, I'm planning on adding new template galleries to make it easy to create/explore ideas using popular frameworks. I'd love to hear if you h
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   Show HN: CodeSwing – A CodePen-like interactive playground, built into VS Code(github.com)

   159 points by lostintangent 6y ago|24 comments
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   by lostintangent 6y ago

   That’s exactly what GitHub Codespaces provides: https://github.com/features/codespaces .
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   by lostintangent 6y ago

   Thanks for the quick reply! Like I mentioned, I would gladly pay the annual fee right now, since NotePlan looks _very_ close to what I’m looking for. But I’m pretty invested in using GitHub for my notes, and so I only need an editor to be a
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    by lostintangent 6y ago

    This looks awesome! I’d switch to this immediately, but there’s a couple things I’d love to confirm before downloading/paying for another app (I’ve tried nearly every MD editor on iOS!): 1. Does it support opening external folders from
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    Show HN: FlashCode – Create and review developer flash cards within VS Code(marketplace.visualstudio.com)

    10 points by lostintangent 6y ago|1 comments
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    by lostintangent 6y ago

    Out of curiosity: what are the primary reasons for your web preference?
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    Ask HN: When and why do you choose to use a desktop client vs. a web client?

    12 points by lostintangent 6y ago|15 comments
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    by lostintangent 6y ago

    Thanks for posting this! I’m the author of CodeTour, and would love to hear if folks had any questions/feedback.
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    by lostintangent 6y ago

    Whenever I onboard to a new codebase, or try to learn more about an open-source project, I typically create personal notes that outline the structure and high-level “markers” that I want to remember and easily reference later. Unfortunately
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    GitLand: A Multiplayer game controlled using GitHub(github.com)

    84 points by lostintangent 6y ago|13 comments
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    This is so awesome! I wonder if it would be useful to have this knowledge “overlayed” on top of the Svelte compiler source itself. That way, contributors could clone the repo and get an annotated tour of the compiler process, directly from
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    Thanks! If you get a chance to check it out, please don’t hesitate to send any feedback my way. I need all the help I can get in order to ensure this experience is awesome :) https://github.com/vsls-contrib/codetour
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    Great question! I’m not currently sure :) I’ve been fairly deliberate about building CodeTour in a language agnostic way, in order to ensure it could be applied to any file type within a codebase. This is partly why I haven’t based the tour
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    Thanks! This HN thread has definitely provided me a major boost in confidence that this is a worthwhile problem to solve.
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    Thanks! Out of curiosity: in the interim of having an IntelliJ client, do you think your team would use a browser-based client and/or integration that was built into GitHub? I’m working on this right now, and I just wanted to check wit
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    That’s my hope! I read a lot of OSS code, and so I constantly struggle with understanding how to get started. Assuming folks find something like CodeTour helpful, I’d love to get support for advocating it and bootstrapping the ecosystem w
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    I’d love to hear more about “engineering team rescue” :) Are you referring to being suddenly dropped into a project that needs help (e.g. because it’s behind s schedule), and having to quickly ramp up?
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    I’ve never built any tooling for Vim, but I’m really inspired by the challenge :) Thanks for the suggestion, and stay tuned! Note: If anyone’s reading this, and has experience in Vim “extensibility”, I’d like to collaborate: https:/&
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    Ah OK cool, apologies for misunderstanding you. Now that I’ve got the core record/playback experience, I’m keen to explore ways to simplify the authoring and maintenance experience even further. Enabling a “code profiler” for recording
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    Oh cool! Yeah, we are definitely kindred spirits :) I wanted to start with VS Code (in order to scratch my own itch), but I’m now working on a browser “player” and looking into GitHub integration ( https://github.com/vsls-con
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    Ah I really like this idea! Currently, a tour can be associated with a specific commit or tag, to enable it to be resilient to code changes over time (e.g. minor refactorings that don’t fundamentally change the value of the tour). That said
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    Thanks! I’m keen to explore integration with GitHub in the near future ( https://github.com/vsls-contrib/codetour/issues/10 ), in order to provide a browser-based “player”. That way, the knowledge in the tour i
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    Me too! I started this discussion with Nat Friedman (GitHub CEO), and I’m excited to see what can be done here. Any feedback/interest from the community might help make this a reality :) https://github.com/vsls-contrib&
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    by lostintangent 7y ago

    The analogy of a museum tour was exactly what inspired the name! When you want to really learn about something, it’s hard to beat the value of a guided walkthrough, that can provide you with just enough focus, while still allowing you to