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guyrapon Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

Also: having Ayanami Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion sitting on your windows.

guyrapon Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

Using https://wwebjs.dev/ to read my whatsapp messages, redis for storage/interop, and a script written for https://github.com/matryer/xbar for a "GUI", instead of running WhatsApp Desktop / WhatsApp Web on my machine (very bad for my attention), I have a status bar icon saying when did I last get a message from my wife, and the text of the last few messages.

guyrapon Interactive GCC (igcc) is a read-eval-print loop (REPL) for C/C++

Compiling diffs - but if the user experience is REPL-ish and it can help some people learn the _basics_ of the language, what's wrong with that?

(Wrong as in "murdering puppies" wrong, not as in "here are the downsides of X" which I believe exist for every X.)

guyrapon Ask HN: Do you work nights/weekends?

Yes. Arriving ~8:30, leaving ~15:30, working nights/weekends to make ends meet. As far as I'm the one putting my kids into their schools and taking them out at the end of the day, I am happy. I wanted to do this since I was a kid and my dad would leave to work at 06:00 and return home 18:00. Yay, psychology!

guyrapon Use the wrong tool for the job

ha, I did not know ruff, used pylint until now.

https://pypi.org/project/ruff/

guyrapon Ask HN: Tool for iterating through a codebase in a tutorial-like manner?

This is it! Thanks!!!

https://github.com/markm208/storyteller

https://markm208.github.io/stDemo/playback.html?view=code

guyrapon Ask HN: Tool for iterating through a codebase in a tutorial-like manner?

Thank you! Sorry, but no. Something open source that immediately opened to an example tutorial of theirs.

guyrapon Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

Databending. Which is applying random noise to a file in order to generate something that still decodes well, but has some weird/cool glitch. I went to a workshop about this in some underground club that no longer operates; still thinking about it and toying around from time to time. This was waaaay before Dall-E et al. were cool ways to generate quasi-crappy images.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Databending

guyrapon Show HN: Pomodoro with friends

It's definitely an overkill in terms of recreating a social network, but maybe they'll get there eventually. The @pomochat user in the chatroom seems to be the devs listening to ideas (and people are making proposals).

guyrapon Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

Can't believe this ends up as my first HN post, but

http://www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com/

<3 Ryan North, creator of [Dinosaur Comics](https://qwantz.com).