Show HN: My Quarantine Project, The Bell

thebellisringing.com

4 points·jwworth··6 comments

A little backstory would help here --

@jwworth: Well, here's my social-distancing project. It's called The Bell; a way to stay connected when you're apart. Ring away, send me your feedback, and take care of each other.

My first reaction was 'meh', until someone rang back. What an odd feeling with all the isolation recently. For some reason i can't hear when someone else rings the bell, not sure if that is intended, but it'd be a cool feature

I hadn't thought about hearing when others ring; that's a cool idea!

And i guess the next logical step after would be to implement an API, and allow people to create a physical bell to interface - ring your bell at home, 200 bells ring around the world :)

I really like this take on the project!

Awesome work.

After trying it out I was curious about the "timeout" mechanism. After a quick glance at the code, It appears the timeout is purely client-side. Which isn't a problem, but it won't stop any modifications to the client-side script from sending any number of 'increment_ring' events.

Thanks for the feedback!

I thought there might be an issue with such behavior, but didn't get around to addressing it in the proof-of-concepting this project never quite graduated from.

Do you (or anyone else) know of patterns or libraries for timing out channel pushes from one particular client to the backend? I'm using Phoenix Channels with WebSockets.

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