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sjbrownon Show HN: DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)

Now do recipes

sjbrownon Ask HN: Did I make a mistake jumping on the homestead bandwagon?

Same. If anyone wants to buy mine off me and learn this lesson for themselves, drop me a message.

Thought it was going to be a utopian "intentional community", and build all the things I'd been dreaming of from watching YouTube vids. Turns out that the infrastructure you need to even get started with that is in the way. Wish I'd just gone suburban with a nice garage workshop instead. That way I wouldn't have to worry about paving a road or pumping water up to the ridge.

sjbrownon Grain – A compiles-to-WASM language that reads clearly, like Python

There's a Settlers of Catan reference in the docs

sjbrownon Local-First Software:You Own Your Data, in Spite of the Cloud (2019) [pdf]

https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html

HTML version here

sjbrownon SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Here's a full-on dice roller / Virtual Tabletop that takes advantage of this: https://github.com/sjbrown/togetherness

sjbrownon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

That looks amazing! What's the tech stack? Code available?

sjbrownon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

Togetherness Table https://www.1kfa.com/table

Open source SVG/HTML/CSS/JavaScript (no frameworks) project for playing Tabletop RPGs (D&D et al) online.

It started out as just a dice-roller, but since it's so easy to nest whatever SVG thingamagic you like into it, it's been expanded to do card decks, tokens, and a thing I'm calling "Dynamic Trays".

Dynamic Trays do the gruntwork of RPG calculations. Sums, tabulations, even "exploding dice".

There's still a lot to do, every time I add a feature I think of two possible new ones. I've got to say, SVG is *really* nice. I think many developers would have the first instinct to do this in an HTML Canvas tag, but SVG does so much heavy lifting for you.

sjbrownon SVG Path Editor

I love this. I'm too often guessing and doing trial-and-error when trying to get SVG paths juuuust right for my SVG-based virtual tabletop project.

sjbrownon Tabletop Simulator

I invite you to have a look at Togetherness Table

https://github.com/sjbrown/togetherness

It's all HTML, SVG, and JS. No JS framework, either, just straight-up JS. Super easy to get started

sjbrownon Show HN: Dungeon Map Doodler – Free online map drawing tool

Hey jbob2000, I invite you to give https://www.1kfa.com/table a try!

sjbrownon Show HN: Dungeon Map Doodler – Free online map drawing tool

Very cool! Any chance of Save-As-SVG?

Even if not, there could be some cool potential for integration with my project, Togetherness Table: https://www.1kfa.com/table https://github.com/sjbrown/togetherness

sjbrownon Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push

"Home" security? ADT has cameras, door sensors, medical alerting "pendandts" etc. installed in many more places than private homes. This deal seems more about sensors and new streams of incoming data for Google.

sjbrownon Simplifying Board Games

If you want critical feedback for your design and suggestions of other games that share some of your goals, you should peek into the /r/RPGDesign subreddit and The Gauntlet Forums.

sjbrownon Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code

We already have some rough glyphs for this: Unicode: 9601, 9602, 9603, 9604, 9605, 9606, 9607, 9608

sjbrownon Netlify Dev

Yeah, I wish it were just a docker image up on the hub

sjbrownon Problems I Have with Python

In the last 15 years, I haven't encountered many coders or organizations that produce code that think machine code or bytecode is significantly "secret".

The sentiment I mostly encounter is:

Secrets are things that are encrypted.

Compiling (to bytecode or machine code) is just a way to let different kinds of "machines" read the code.

(Paranoia seems to amplify that attitude)

sjbrownon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)

Compology - San Francisco - On-site. Help us build the Internet of "Things in the garbage"

Interview format: phone screen + half-day on-site.

Waste hauling is currently an extremely inefficient industry pouring lots of unneeded carbon into the atmosphere. We use rugged sensors and software to monitor the volume of waste in front-load and roll-off containers to make collection routes 40% more efficient.

We’re looking for experienced frontend engineers who can help us define and build applications and services that will reshape the waste industry.

Send an intro and your resume to us at careers@compology.com