Making Your Own Tools

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SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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  • simde

    Implementations of SIMD instruction sets for systems which don't natively support them.

  • > low level code that can run on multiple hardware architectures

    I thought SIMD Everywhere was a pretty interesting project for that, lets you write x86 SSE/AVX code and run it on non-x86 architectures:

    https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde

  • ui-editor

    A collaboration tool for engineering teams. Working concept for design tool that can generate readable code. Aimed to replace modern bloatware like jira, slack, outlook, IDE, and redundant work. A developer tool built by developer to make designers do the developer's work.

  • I have been coding things that interest me as part of https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor. This idea had been in my head when I was introduced to visual foxpro and I told the person it can be made more efficient if it can build components that can build components.

    In my second company I came to know about eval - I called it a browser runtime that can execute source code. I don't have to learn anything about AST. Also I learnt about graph structure and I used it for the component tree in my tool.

    In my third company I saw a technique where component configuration is saved as a JSON - I learnt that code can be a configuration and configuration is just a JSON, I dont' have to learn anything fancy about Object oriented concepts to build application.

    In my fourth company I saw a neat codebase where view, css, reducers, state, events are all split into separate files and used that idea and made them as inputs.

    Overall, its a hobby tool I have been building and whenever I learn interesting, simple and efficient techniques from the projects I work on, I use it in the tool.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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