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kindle_clippings_webapp
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26 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
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remember
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Racket Language
Racket is my favorite language. It's fast, practical, has solid foundations and an extremely nice concurrency story (based on concepts borrowed and extended from Concurrent ML). It has an excellent documentation system, with an integrated package ecosystem, which means that most packages have high quality documentation with cross-references. It has a great backwards-compatibility story -- a lot better than Python's, for example, which I use in my current dayjob. So, my impression of the commenters saying it's too academic or not practical is that they probably never dove deeply enough, or they are students who were only exposed to the teaching languages in the past. It's definitely not perfect: the community is small, the runtime has a high memory baseline, parallelism requires spinning up a Racket VM per system thread, among others, but these are things that will improve over time.
In the past several years, I've:
* built & run an e-commerce site written in Racket[1]
* built a native macOS and iOS reminders app, available on the App Store [2, 3, 4]
* built a cross-platform desktop client for Apache Kafka [5, 6, 7]
* built a `#lang` for Lua [8]
Among[9] other[10] things[11]. I think that's all pretty practical stuff!
[1]: https://defn.io/2019/08/20/racket-ecommerce/
[2]: https://defn.io/2020/01/02/ann-remember/
[3]: https://defn.io/2024/04/09/ann-remember-for-ios/
[4]: https://github.com/bogdanp/remember
[5]: https://defn.io/2022/11/20/ann-franz/
[6]: https://defn.io/2023/10/15/ann-franz-for-windows/
[7]: https://defn.io/2023/08/10/ann-franz-source-available/
[8]: https://defn.io/2022/11/12/ann-racket-lua/
[9]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/http-easy/index.html
[10]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/deta/index.html
[11]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/gui-easy/index.html
- Calling Haskell from Swift
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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
A really simple keyboard driven reminder tool for macOS:
https://github.com/Bogdanp/remember
- Racket branch of Chez Scheme merging with mainline Chez Scheme
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Ask HN: What Are You Working on This Year?
My goal for this year is to continue building (mainly Mac and iOS) apps (like Remember[1] and Franz[2]) using Racket and to help improve the language and ecosystem in any way I can.
[1]: https://remember.defn.io
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What programming language is good to make GUI's
PS this is a macOS app with the GUI made with swift https://github.com/Bogdanp/remember/tree/master/cocoa/remember/remember but the backend is Racket.
kindle_clippings_webapp
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Simple Lasts Longer
This is the approach I use in most of my hobby projects. It's simpler, and faster and there are no loading screens.
In my kindle-clippings-manager (https://github.com/karlosos/kindle_clippings_webapp) I import highlights from Kindle and store them in localStorage. The major drawback is a size limitation (10MB). This should not be a problem in most cases but if you need to store more data then indexedDB (Web Storage) can solve the issue.
Linear (https://linear.app/) uses its sync engine to store the data in Web Storage. With optimistic updates, it feels like an offline app. You can read more about the sync engine here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519448
- Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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My react app for managing kindle clippings
Live demo • Source code
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I made an app to manage my kindle clippings (demo data available)
Source code: https://github.com/karlosos/kindle_clippings_webapp
What are some alternatives?
7GUI - the 7 gui project
full-text-tabs-forever - Full text search all your browsing history
racket - The Racket repository
clipzoomfx - Side-project for extracting highlights from (mostly sports) videos
racket-gui-easy - Declarative GUIs in Racket.
gnar - frp-like Tool with AutoHTTPs Subdomain Proxy
linux-surface - Linux Kernel for Surface Devices
notifeed - Watch RSS/Atom feeds and send push notifications/webhooks when new content is detected
Camlistore - Perkeep (née Camlistore) is your personal storage system for life: a way of storing, syncing, sharing, modelling and backing up content.
soundfingerprinting - Open source audio fingerprinting in .NET. An efficient algorithm for acoustic fingerprinting written purely in C#.
roqr - QR codes that will rock your world
toybox - Opinionated TALL stack starter kit for Laravel solopreneurs