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couacon Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

Hi, we've built Monod a while ago: https://monod.lelab.tailordev.fr/. It looks very similar to your project :)

couacon Pauling, scientific posters on the go

Blog post and app co-author here. We'll publish the app to the stores ASAP. In the meantime, if you want to try it as a beta tester (android at least, iOS I do not remember if that works with buddybuild), then you can email us: hello@tailordev.fr. Thanks!

couacon Pauling, scientific posters on the go

haha I do agree with you!

couacon Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source

Hi! We noticed that many users could not create "Teams".. It is fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience :(

couacon Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source

Thanks for the kind words!

> One thing I haven't been able to figure out is after syncing to Crick, how can I delete a project from there?

We are aware of it, and we do not have a solution yet. We built Crick in a week so we had to cut corners... We focused on the happy path. Things will get better in the future (as we use these tools).

couacon Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source

Do you mean this? http://orgmode.org/

Can you track time with it?

couacon Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source

Thanks, this should be fixed now!

couacon Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source

Good point! In a previous article, we do have a few Gifs: https://tailordev.fr/blog/2017/06/07/le-lab-5-crick-a-backen....

Edit: I added a Gif on the (GitHub) README too: https://github.com/TailorDev/crick.

couacon Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source

Hi! I am Will, co-author of the blog post and tool(s).

A long time ago, we asked our intern to develop a time tracker as a CLI, given that we spend most of our time in the terminal and also to give him something fun to do. He designed a great time tracker that we now use daily: Watson (https://github.com/TailorDev/Watson).

Our business involves billing clients per days (7h a day). Watson was our source of truth but sometimes we needed to aggregate reports of different developers. Crick (https://github.com/TailorDev/crick) to the rescue!

These open source tools were part of a much bigger project that never took off. Watson was open source per se but we thought we could maybe create Crick as a paying-product. We conducted interviews and decided not to do that: nobody really needed such a tool. Well. We needed it so we developed it and decided to open source it.

couacon TLA+ in Practice and Theory, Part 4: Order in TLA+

Cool. I was waiting for it :)

Question: would you have examples of TLA+ specs that are not related to distributed algos (raft, paxos, etc.) or puzzles (die hard, etc.)?

couacon I have just open-sourced the code behind assignees.io

Edit: it is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13994062

couacon I have just open-sourced the code behind assignees.io

Thanks for the suggestion, will do!

couacon A second life for very old C programs

Very nice, thanks! Third time I read something like this today, so worth considering I guess. Thanks a lot for the links!

couacon A second life for very old C programs

You are right, thanks for the reminder!

couacon A second life for very old C programs

Surprisingly pretty good. Simple API load tests show response time < 80ms. The C programs themselves are very fast (because there is not a lot of computation involved).

couacon A second life for very old C programs

Thanks. I did not know about it to be honest. Very interesting!

There is no comparison since the idea was not to port the programs to JS or in the browser but rather being able to compile them (with a common setup) and create an API on top of them :)

couacon Remote work: 6 months later

Thanks for the reply and all the details!

couacon Remote work: 6 months later

We love iDoneThis here at TailorDev.

couacon Remote work: 6 months later

Ha ha. If they use HipChat and Skype, then it is a bit like we are "outside of the office" ;-)

couacon Remote work: 6 months later

Yes I'd be interested to hear more about that setup too!

couacon Remote work: 6 months later

There is one thing we did not mention, and I'll likely blog on it later this year: being remote does not mean (for us) working at home or even working completely "alone".

For instance, I work in a co-working space where other co-workers are either remote or freelance. I chose a co-working space that is not IT-specific, which is even better. So I have sort of colleagues there, we discuss about many things, sometimes about our respective jobs/works, but most of the time about life in general.

couacon Remote work: 6 months later

You're absolutely right! When we started, Mattermost did not exist (or was version 0.0.0.1).

Now, just like GitLab, it is a very serious thing and we consider using it instead of relying on a 3rd party. Yet, we are a very small team and cannot dedicate too much time in maintaining/upgrading apps :\

couacon EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020

This was a big announcement, but there was no action defined at the time of the announcement. I wrote about it several months ago, because I had many questions following this news: https://tailordev.fr/blog/2016/05/31/our-take-on-the-recent-....

couacon Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is open source

Like Jacques Monod, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Monod. We don't pronounce the "d" I'd say.

couacon Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is open source

it is CommonMark.

couacon Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is open source

thank you!

couacon Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is open source

Yes, because we had to come up with something quickly (this project was part of an experiment to learn React.js), it is simple and it seems to work.

couacon Show HN: Monod, our secure Markdown editor built with React

It is open source now! https://github.com/TailorDev/monod

couacon Show HN: Monod, our secure Markdown editor built with React

hehe thank you!

couacon Show HN: Monod, our secure Markdown editor built with React

Makes perfectly sense, thanks!