whytheplatypus

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Show HN: Fig – An animated wallpaper setter for x11(github.com)
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Show HN: Reagent – Test APIs Declaratively(github.com)
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by whytheplatypus 6y ago
I've been thinking through similar disenchantment with social networks and content distribution. Going back to simplicity with something like this is a great idea. Also, nice use of "lo-fi"! Thinking of recent projects as lo-
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Show HN: Simple Observable Logs for Go(github.com)
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by whytheplatypus 6y ago
This project came out of some friends and I missing watching bad movies together. I'm of the mind that writing software takes practice. So it was a great chance to practice general p2p design and specific WebRTC implementation. The bas
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by whytheplatypus 6y ago
I have seen some odd behavior but I haven't had a chance to identify exactly what is causing the limitations. For example one h264 video played correctly on the projectionists browser but resulting stream had a slightly off aspect rati
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by whytheplatypus 6y ago
Thanks for taking a look! This works by creating a p2p RTCPeerConnection between the host (or projectionist) and each member of the audience. So the p2p aspect is a hub and spoke model. The video is captured either from a local video elemen
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Show HN: Shareable.Theater – A WebRTC theater for watching things together(shareable.theater)
24 points by whytheplatypus 6y ago|6 comments
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by whytheplatypus 6y ago
yes!
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by whytheplatypus 6y ago
Couldn't agree with this more. A current favorite of mine is "The Emperor's old cloths", the Turing award lecture given by C.A.R Hoare. In particular his line "The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost s
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by whytheplatypus 6y ago
very very fair. mDNS is just the method of communicating what traffic should be sent where. The "switchboard" listens for mDNS broadcasts that tell it what services want traffic routed to them under what conditions. A "node&q
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by whytheplatypus 6y ago
It makes my morning that this might be useful to someone aside from myself. I went down a similar path trying to find something mindless to route traffic to small projects I tend to run on raspberry pi's around the house, which resulte
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Show HN: Switchboard – A mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure(github.com)
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Show HN: Diem – a daily CLI todolist in rust(github.com)
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by whytheplatypus 7y ago
I really appreciate the response! I've added TensorflowJS and MagentaJS to my reading list. I'll pick out a couple of things implied in your comment, if I'm interpreting them right: - An API should feel natural, and human-rea
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Ask HN: What makes a piece of code enjoyable to read?
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by whytheplatypus 7y ago
I've been enjoying "The Elements of Programming Style" by Kernighan and Plauger. Don't get put off by the references to Fortran, what they say applies to any language. "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Progr
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by whytheplatypus 7y ago
"write clearly -- don't sacrifice clarity for 'efficiency'" "make it clear before you make it faster" "make it right before you make it faster" "keep it simple to make it faster" From &