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Show HN: Hexana – hexdump utility in x86-64 assembly(octobanana.com)
1 points by octobanana 7y ago|0 comments
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by octobanana 8y ago
The majority of the program has been redesigned and rewritten since the initial post 50 days ago, so I thought it would be alright to make another one. The Show HN rules say that 'A major overhaul is probably ok'. Would that still
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by octobanana 8y ago
Hello! My name is Brett. For the past couple years I've been teaching myself how to program and engineer software, with a focus on C++ and Linux. Lately, I've been interested in learning how text-based user interface (TUI) program
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Show HN: Fltrdr – A Vi Inspired Text Reader for the Terminal(octobanana.com)
5 points by octobanana 8y ago|7 comments
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by octobanana 8y ago
This looks neat, I'll give it a go later today. One of the features I use Ranger for is to visually select multiple music files and then open them with mpv to play. Would that be something Hunter supports, or would support in the futur
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by octobanana 8y ago
> I thought you were only talking about the click to expand the tree. That makes sense. It would have been an interesting stat to compare, but the metrics only come from resource requests, as those pages don't run any scripts.
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by octobanana 8y ago
It's all server-side rendered. I've been considering open sourcing the site, but there's some cleaning up to be done first.
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by octobanana 8y ago
> Do you mean that your metrics showed that few people were expanding the tree, so you made it expanded by default? Correct, after it became expanded by default, the hit rate for project files was dramatically higher, showing that users
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by octobanana 8y ago
> When I'm working with a GitHub project, I commonly want to load up the page and navigate to some files. If not, it's usually not much scrolling to get down to the README. The solution I'm using currently for the git repo
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by octobanana 8y ago
It works best with any plain ASCII text. What I've been doing is taking PDF's and using `pdftotext` and `iconv` to convert documents into plain text. I'll add more information on this in the README.md to make it more clear wh
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by octobanana 8y ago
I'd be stoked if you did, It would be interesting to see how the program would look in Rust.
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by octobanana 8y ago
That's a good idea, thanks! I'll make an updated video of it and add a link to it in the README.md.
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by octobanana 8y ago
This blog post from last week has two videos of it in action. The first one demos some of the features, while the second reads a bit of a book uninterrupted for 2 minutes. https://octobanana.com/blog/terminal-text-reade
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by octobanana 8y ago
For the past month, I've been working on this terminal text reader project for fun. It started out as a project to learn more about how to structure and implement a text-based user interface with vi inspired features. It's written
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Show HN: Fltrdr – A TUI Text Reader for the Terminal(github.com)
78 points by octobanana 8y ago|17 comments
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by octobanana 8y ago
Hello there! For a weekend project, I wanted to write a program that would use the C++ HTTP client library I've been working on recently. I was curious to put it to the test in a real scenario and see what works and find any pain point
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Show HN: Stig – A CLI tool for searching GitHub from the terminal(octobanana.com)
6 points by octobanana 8y ago|1 comments
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by octobanana 8y ago
Hello HN! About a year ago, I wanted to build a personal website in C++ to host projects and blog posts. I experimented with multiple C++ web libraries and went through several complete rewrites. Like the authors of all the other web librar
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Show HN: Belle – HTTP/Websocket lib in C++17 using Boost.Beast and Boost.ASIO(octobanana.com)
2 points by octobanana 8y ago|1 comments
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by octobanana 8y ago
Hello HN! I've noticed lately that I tend to jump into the comment section on hacker news and reddit before reading the associated article. To prevent this, I wrote ireadit, a browser extension that hides the comment section if the art
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Show HN: Ireadit – Hide the comment section of unread articles on HN and Reddit(octobanana.com)
5 points by octobanana 8y ago|2 comments