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orbital
- orbital - Open-source, local-first video file browser like YouTube
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Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
I tried to make 2 different desktop apps in 2021 and failed at both.
Atomic Edits[0] is a desktop app that helps YouTubers (like me) automatically remove silence in videos. It went viral on Reddit[1] but I realized later that building a video editing app with Electron (and not C++) was a bad choice. Library support video/audio editing was lacking.
Recut[2] is an app that basically does what Atomic Edits aimed to do, but actually succeeded. I think it's because it was a native Mac app which meant it had access to better libraries for editing videos. (That or I gave up too early on Atomic Edits.)
Orbital[3] is desktop app that allows you to search, filter, preview video files on your computer like YouTube. I posted on some subreddits and it had potential but I realized it wouldn't be enough to sustain me. It could've worked as a side-project but being as my main source of income was from YouTube ad-revenue, it wasn't worth it.
VideoHubApp[4] is a desktop app that does what Orbital aimed to do and actually earned a couple thousand dollars. It was started a few years earlier and was built with a similar tech stack.
All that is to say, I made desktop apps that had potential, but I did not have the time to spend making them feature complete.
[0] https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/atomic-edits
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/ohbl6i/i_made_a_des...
[2] https://getrecut.com/
[3] https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/orbital
[4] https://videohubapp.com/en/
- Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?
- Show HN: Open-source, local-first video file browser like YouTube
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After quitting my job and going full-time on YouTube, I started accumulating a ton of media files. So I made an app to search, filter, and preview them.
As for the project, itβs open source - meaning the code is available for all to see, update, and report issues on GitHub (https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/Orbital).
- An open-source, local-first desktop app that helps search, filter, and preview video files (like YouTube).
datastation
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Code coverage for Go integration tests
There was a technique that existed already where you could use `go test -cover` and the `-o` flag to produce a binary from `go test` rather than actually running tests. So you could build a binary that had coverage enabled. Then when you ran
Here's an example: https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/blob/main/runn....
I can't remember where I found this technique but it's been around for a while.
This new option is the same thing but a way to `go build` with `-cover` instead of `go test -cover -o $out`? Do I have that right?
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Engineers using dbt with VS Code - how are you previewing your results in lieu of the functionality provided by dbt cloud?
If my employer doesn't consider paying for dbt cloud, I will use u/eatonphil 's datastation, run the queries on a dev database then put them in dbt.
- Show HN: DataStation β App to easily query, script, and visualize data
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Windmill.dev
I build a somewhat similar app, DataStation [0], that is in JavaScript and Go. It supports scripting in Python, Julia, R, JavaScript, Ruby, etc.
The server version of it exists and I run it myself but that process is not documented yet. (Most people use it as a desktop app today.)
[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation
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Datasette Lite: a server-side Python web application running in a browser
My biggest issue with Pyodide is the long wait times. I haven't figured out a way around a ~5 second load time where the entire UI hangs every single time you load the page.
My app (similar to Simon's, a lite mode of a data IDE): https://app.datastation.multiprocess.io.
My code: https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/blob/main/shar....
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Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
I use Go heavily cross-platform developing DataStation [0] and dsq [1]. I am not an expert. And I don't have proof for it but on some rudimentary benchmarks the Linux-specific file idioms in the Go standard library definitely don't seem to translate well to even macOS let alone Windows. For example some good streaming techniques for reading large files on Linux that work really well there seemed to be pretty bad on macOS.
I think Amos has presented more proof than I can on the topic of just how Linux-influenced Go is. And I think it is fine for the majority of Go users because the majority users of Go are building server apps or Linux CLIs.
Amos has spent some time building cross-platform desktop systems with Go for itch.io and I think I'm seeing some of the same things they are in that scenario.
I think this is a reasonable article. If Amos gets flame-y at any point I think it's worth ignoring because there does seem to be something up with Go in cross-platform applications.
I like Go a lot and for most things I'd keep using it still. Just sharing some observations.
[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation
[1] https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq
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Feeling overwhelmed when trying to contribute to opensource projects
I keep a page of good first projects for two big projects I work on. The only expectation is that you know Go. I've had a couple of people who've never contributed to OSS come in and get some meaningful features merged.
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Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)
I've got some good first projects if you're interested in OSS data tools and have some Go experience.
Check out: https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/blob/main/GOOD...
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Open source Go projects to contribute (beginners)
Some example projects: DataStation (desktop GUI for querying every kind of database, scripting and graphing the results) and dsq (a CLI companion for running SQL queries on many kinds of files), and go-json (a library for fast JSON encoding of arrays of large objects).
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Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
I'm building a desktop-first (SaaS-eventual) data IDE for developers [0]. Making a living? Not yet.
It being desktop-first makes it as easy to try out in a corporate environment as Sublime. The data never leaves your machine. Desktop-first is a big deal in devtools for this reason.
[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation
What are some alternatives?
GameDev - πΎ The code for my game dev + computer graphics experiments on YouTube. [Moved to: https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/Gamedex]
homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager
atomic-edits - π¬ A desktop app that automatically removes silence from videos.
gecko-dev - Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html
tailwind-clones - π Cloning the UIs' of popular websites with Tailwind CSS.
vscode-jupyter - VS Code Jupyter extension
NewPipe - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality.
golang-samples - Sample apps and code written for Google Cloud in the Go programming language.
pareto-mac - Automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.
datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
video-cutter - Cut any video online using FFMPEG... no server needed ! (Thanks WebAssembly)
oursh - Your comrade through the perilous world of UNIX.