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kosos
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Ask HN: Admittedly Useless Side Projects?
I've spent way too much time implementing a transpiler and bash like shell that makes programming my ships in Kerbal Space Program easier. The self-hosted version is almost done. I'd probably do it again though, way too much fun to see your spaceships autonomously do things.
Transpiler: https://gitlab.com/thexa4/kos-kpp
OS: https://gitlab.com/thexa4/kosos
Simula
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Ask HN: Admittedly Useless Side Projects?
- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/ Parser, code model, interpreter and navigable browser for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 v2 sources and virtual image file
- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/ Parser, code model, navigable browser and VM for the SOM Smalltalk dialect
- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Simula A Simula 67 parser written in C++ and Qt
> do you regret those endeavours?
No, not in any way; the projects were very entertaining and gave me interesting insights.
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A tour of Self
The meta object concept of Python (both the 2 and 3 version) is rather different than the one of Smalltalk-80. Actually Smalltalk-76 and 80 have more in common with Simula (67) than the first Smalltalk (72) version. I implemented both Simula 67 and Smalltalk-80 (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/ and https://github.com/rochus-keller/Simula/). Smalltalk implemented a lot of great ideas, but its influence on other languages (such as Python, Java, C++, etc.) is generally overestimated.
What are some alternatives?
kos-kpp
ArchiveBox - 🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
fauxjsp - JSP implementation with fast page reloads that uses an interpreter rather than a compiler
callibella - Sync your personal calendar to your work calendar, privately 🐒
muxile - Putting tmux on your mobile - Muxile is a tmux plugin that lets you control a running tmux session with your phone, no app needed.
air - Awesome Interface for e-Readers
tone - tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac and more. It has no dependencies and can be downloaded as single binary for Windows, macOS, Linux and other common platforms.
react-qml - Build native, high-performance, cross-platform applications through a React (and/or QML) syntax
pgredis - Redis in front, postgresql out back
timeline - Timeline generator. Turns your photos, calendars, GPS tracks and more into a nice timeline of your life.