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darkvertex··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
Even better how about a fully functional VSCode: https://vscode.dev

The File System Access API makes it possible.

darkvertex··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
15 years of extremely well paid engineers and yet we still cannot delete a track from Recently Listened. ಠ _ ಠ
darkvertex··on Www.whitehouse.gov/Arcade/
Didn't think it was possible to ruin Tetris, but... I stand corrected.
darkvertex··on Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game
I'm not the developer but I'd venture that it's a WebRTC "metadata track" over the same MediaStream the audio is going through.

Metadata tracks aren't formally part of the spec but there's ways to either inject it into the video frame data payload or encode them to audio.

There's libraries like LiveKit that abstract this and make meta tracks easy.

darkvertex··on Show HN: Elevators
If you buy the adorable monochrome console called the "Playdate" https://play.date it comes with a bunch of games included, including a cute elevator game where you help penguins to different floors while controlling the elevators yourself using the crank: https://play.date/games/flipper-lifter/
darkvertex··on GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
Exactly. The system should run in a forcibly limited scope of the current repo only or add permissions for scope to include other org/user repos.

It can't leak a private repo if it can't open it to begin with.

darkvertex··on Renting a sewing machine from the library
The main library here in Montreal has a sick makerspace with 3D printers (plastic and resin), wood CNC machines, a digital embroidery machine, button maker, shirt press, hole driller, laser cutter, vacuform and vinyl cutter: https://square.banq.qc.ca/fablab

It's a pretty dope library. They also let you borrow movies, videogames for all consoles and even board games, vinyl records and a few music instruments.

darkvertex··on CrankGPT
And here I thought this was gonna be a Playdate GPT client app.
darkvertex··on A History of IDEs at Google
Ever tried SSH'ing via "Mosh"? https://mosh.org
darkvertex··on Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs
A hello-world example of what it looks like, and what running it would validate, would be nice.

It's all very abstractly described in the README and that intro page you linked.

darkvertex··on Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app
Or why not stay fully local with WebLLM... https://webllm.mlc.ai
darkvertex··on Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library
You should try making a site with Astro. Load speed is cray cray.
darkvertex··on Spherical Snake
Fun take! Would love to just drag my finger on the sphere to affect the direction instead of the two big buttons.
darkvertex··on Blob Opera, Community Edition
Site is broken, yep. Also tries to load https://opera.addy.ie/files/assets/balloon_6.flat but it's 404.

The original Blob Opera runs just fine: https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHW... What does this fork do different?

darkvertex··on Stereo Images of Giant Galaxies
Hi there! If you have a Quest 3/3S you should look up "Space Explorers Ultimate Edition", it's free and within it the experience labeled "The ISS Experience" is a beautiful documentary series filmed with 360 cameras sent to film aboard the International Space Station. Some episodes even feature footage filmed outside the station for real, with gorgeous shots of the Earth actually filmed in real outer space attached to the Canadarm robot arm for maneuvering. It's all stereoscopic (3D) video also.

If you have a Quest 2 or 1, I'm very sorry that you can't enjoy that. (Borrow a friend's Quest3 for a weekend I guess.)

ps: I worked for the studio that made the series and was a dev for the custom camera control software webapp that ran on an astronaut's laptop. Crazy fun project.

darkvertex··on Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments
So this reinvents devcontainers? https://containers.dev

Why should we use yours? What does it do better or differently?

darkvertex··on Ask HN: Any local agents to help repetitive browser tasks?
Playwright is great. Take a look at Stagehand, it's an AI layer built on top of Playwright: https://www.stagehand.dev (It can run locally.)
darkvertex··on A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet
Also if you have the delightful "Playdate" game console, his game Mars After Midnight is charming and not stressful.
darkvertex··on Show HN: Pyproc – Call Python from Go Without CGO or Microservices
This uses UDS (Unix Domain Sockets) to communicate, which are file-like and can be mounted from the host filesystem inside a container.

As long as the socket is writable, the rest of the filesystem(s) don't have to be. Same goes for the networking, which can be very isolated and restricted.

It should be possible to do what you want.

darkvertex··on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
Quantum? That's so yesterday.

https://anycrap.shop/product/holographic-ai-idea-gauge-proje...

darkvertex··on Show HN: La Touche Musicale PianoConvert
Or import MIDI into a music box sheet converter? https://musicboxmaniacs.com/create
darkvertex··on Timdle – Place historical events in chronological order
Yeah! They sell many packs by genre (inventions, music, movies, science, etc) but what's neat is you can mix the cards of multiple genres and the game still works all the same. Very elegant concept.
darkvertex··on FFmpeg merges WebRTC support
WebRTC excels at sub-second latency peer to peer, so you can do near-realtime video, so anywhere that is useful.

Say you wanted to do a virtual portal installation connecting views from two different cities with live audio, you could have ffmpeg feed off a professional cinema or DSLR camera device with a clean audio feed and stream that over WebRTC into a webpage-based live viewer.

Or say you wanna do a webpage that remote controls a drone or rover robot, it would be great for that.

darkvertex··on Stereographer
*Meta, not Meat. Damn autocorrect!
darkvertex··on Stereographer
You should try the new V2 of Meat's incredible DepthAnything model: https://depth-anything-v2.github.io/

It blows MiDaS out of the water imho.

darkvertex··on Stereographer
If you wanna be ultra cheap and your subject is a still scene you can literally just use any camera like your smartphone and take two pics side by side in short succession, distanced apart by your human IPD (Inter-Pupillary Distance.)

Did you know your index finger is roughly 1 IPD from nail to knuckle? This is useful:

Hold your phone sideways, look where your lens is in the horizontal axis and align your left index finger's knuckle such that you're holding the phone edge with it but your knuckle is lined up just above the lens... Snap a pic. (This will be your left eye pic.) — Now keep your left index straight as-is and with your right hand gently grip your phone and slide it horizontally such that the lens previously lined up above your knuckle is now aligned just below the tip of your left index finger nail. Now snap another pic. (This is your right eye pic.)

Now put them in a collage side by side in Photoshop or whatever, and make it small and cross your eyes. If you kept your alignment fairly you should now have a respectable 3D photo.

Voila! 3D photos on the cheap, as long as your subjects stand still between the two pics.

darkvertex··on Show HN: KittyCal – minimalist PWA calendar app for couples
You don't need a family calendar. You can make extra calendars and in the settings on web desktop you can share just the one calendar with another friend's Google account, and if you pick the good permissions either of you can make events in it, and it syncs to all who have it, magically: https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?sjid=171696...
darkvertex··on Show HN: Learn a new language by speaking with AI
What do you use for validating pronunciation?

Or do you just use a Speech To Text model and hope the text that comes of it is the expected phrase?

darkvertex··on Chrome DevTools now uses Gemini to help with JavaScript Errors in the console
Edge did it first: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools-gu...
darkvertex··on Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music (2022)
Haha, I loved that album when it came out!

Indeed it was unsearchable though. I had to buy the CD.

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