websocat
excalidraw
websocat | excalidraw | |
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10 | 377 | |
6,550 | 73,819 | |
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7.4 | 9.5 | |
7 days ago | 4 days ago | |
Rust | TypeScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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websocat
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Show HN: ScaleSocket – Turn any script into a multiplayer WebSocket server
It's similar to running netcat in server mode, wrapping a script. It's even closer to doing that using websocat [1], whereby one does not have to do the websocket header juggling.
The main difference is that while netcat or websocat will spawn a new process for each connecting client, ScaleSocket has a concept of rooms (channels). For a room, a process is spawned once only. All clients connecting to the same room are routed to the same process. This is not straight forward to do using the forementioned tools.
There's a small comparison page [2] where I have mentioned some alternative tools.
[1] https://github.com/vi/websocat
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Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?
one combination I came to really love this year is babashka (https://github.com/babashka/babashka) + websocat (https://github.com/vi/websocat). I wrote about a method of live web programming with this pair at https://github.com/whacked/cow/blob/main/a%20technique%20for...
babashka isn't strictly necessary; you can also pipe plain text, but pushing hiccup expressions to the browser DOM from the REPL with instant feedback has opened a new world of interactive programming for me.
- GoLogin and python/selenium
- WebSockets in Curl
- Vi/websocat: Command-line client for WebSocket like netcat or curl
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Realtime web-based MUD monitoring and control in tintin++ and mudlet
No... the core of it is a django instance in the cloud with a Vue front end (what you're seeing in the screen shot). To push data in, the client connects to a websocket (using https://github.com/vi/websocat) and push key/value pairs in. I'm not in the middle of gameplay at all.
- One Liner for streaming events from one relay to another
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Testing the Async Cloud with AWS CDK
There's really nothing to this. I just have to provide the bus name and an optional pattern. Now using websocat, I get output like this:
- Netcat – All you need to know
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Exploring the methods of looking into Ethereum’s transaction pool
Subscriptions is real-time streaming of data from server to client through WebSocket. You will need a constantly active connection to stream such events. You cannot use curl for this and have to use a WebSocket client like websocat if you want to access it via command line. Once executed, a stream of pending transaction IDs will start flowing in.
excalidraw
- An infinite canvas for code exploration
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Creating Animated Diagrams for LinkedIn
ExcaliDraw - https://excalidraw.com/
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Software Engineering Workflow
ExcaliDraw
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Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer
However, Notion and Obsidian can only help you write documentation. Well, how about some visuals? Let's talk about Excalidraw.
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Rapier is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines written in Rust
Fun fact: I used GA in Excalidraw, and it's still powering some of the interactions! https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/blob/master/package...
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Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?
I was happy to find out recently that there is a way to make Mermaid diagrams WYSIWYG / drag and drop editable that the open source https://excalidraw.com has and did I mention it's open source!? With a LLM, you can go full loop back to Mermaid again after a few rounds of manual editing. "What a time to be alive!"
- Show HN: Batch Image Manipulation Toolkit in Browser
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Ask HN: What development tools are you using for your current project?
I'm working on a personal project and found myself looking for an alternative to Postman/Insomnia this morning. This made me realize i've been using the same tools for so long for work (mobile development, finance) that this project may be a good time to try out some new things.
Here are a few tools that i've been using lately that I really enjoy:
https://pocketbase.io/ - A dead-simple self-hosted firebase/supabase-like "backend in a box" using golang and sqlite. So far i've been really impressed. I've gone the route of extending the base offering with more go code and am really enjoying the experience.
https://excalidraw.com/ - An open source whiteboarding tool. Slick to use and after learning some keybinds I've gotten pretty fast at throwing together diagrams to explain things to people on my team. The killer piece though is that the filetype is just json, so I can source control my diagrams. Even better, their "export to png" function has a box to embed the json data _into_ the png, allowing me to slap the diagram in places that only accept images (think confluence) and still be able to change the diagram later if needed. 10/10.
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ - Gitlab's CI/CD toolset is really impressive, and I've gotten really intimate with it's deeper features over the past year. I'd be curious though to hear from someone who's familiar with it vs it's competitors.
- Keeping your fonts in embedded SVG
- Excalidraw
What are some alternatives?
hurl - Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
tldraw - SDK for creating whiteboards and canvas experiences on the web.
websocketd - Turn any program that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a WebSocket server. Like inetd, but for WebSockets.
draw.io - draw.io is a JavaScript, client-side editor for general diagramming.
web3.py - A python interface for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain and ecosystem.
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
cdk-eventbridge-socket - CDK construct that creates a WebSocket endpoint for you for any EventBridge rule you are interested in. (Built for debugging + testing )
obsidian-excalidraw-plugin - A plugin to edit and view Excalidraw drawings in Obsidian
warp-cors - warp-cors is a proxy server which enables CORS for the proxied request
docker-draw.io - Dockerized draw.io based on tomcat:9-jre11 & tomcat:9-jre8-alpine official image.
sls-test-tools - Custom Jest Assertions for Serverless integration testing.
drawio-desktop - Official electron build of draw.io