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Show HN: Val Town – A Cloud Scripting Site
Hey HN! We're so excited to show you Val Town (<a href="https://val.town" rel="nofollow">https://val.town</a>)! A "val" is a JavaScript/TypeScript function or value that runs on our servers. We aim to get you from idea to running code in seconds: type code, run it, get its API endpoint, schedule it - all from the browser, in a couple keystrokes.<p>We're a startup of 4 people, mostly in NYC. We've been working on this for 6 months and are eager for feedback from the HN community.<p>Why do we need yet another online coding IDE? While researching devtools[1], I found myself wanting something halfway between Replit and Zapier: a tool that makes hosting, deploying, scheduling, and authenticating easy, but is first-and-foremost a programming tool.<p>We added `console.email` to the runtime to make it incredibly easy to email yourself. We don't have npm imports yet, but we do have a low-friction system that treats every user as a namespace, so you can refer to `@me.foo + 1` or `@yourFriend.bar()` right in your code. There are a lot of thorny implications this newfangled import scheme creates, but also many joyous and carefree coding experiences! One of my favorite features is that we store every evaluation, up and down the callstack, including inputs, outputs, logs, etc, which has been an amazing aid to debugging.<p>So far, Val Town is mostly used for what we're calling "programmatic notifications": query a data source for new items on an interval and email them to yourself.<p>Get notified when users you "follow" post on Hacker News: <a href="https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.hnFollowPollJob" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.hnFollowPollJob</a><p>Get notified when to close your window during fire season in SF: <a href="https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.aqi" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.aqi</a><p>Get notified when there are new citations on a paper: <a href="https://www.val.town/ernest.newCitationNotification" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/ernest.newCitationNotification</a><p>Subscribe to RSS feeds: <a href="https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.pollRSSFeeds" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.pollRSSFeeds</a><p>A good place to get started would be forking one of those vals and modifying it to suit your needs. Some folks are using the tool in other ways, such as in webhook contexts, and we encourage those uses as well. We'd LOVE to pair-program with anyone looking to try out the tool and give feedback. Email steve@val.town :-)<p>Main site: <a href="https://val.town" rel="nofollow">https://val.town</a>
Docs: <a href="https://val-town.notion.site/Val-Town-Docs-01c8eb9c534b4899802f3a9e31d540ab" rel="nofollow">https://val-town.notion.site/Val-Town-Docs-01c8eb9c534b48998...</a>
Discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/dHv45uN5RY" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/dHv45uN5RY</a>
Blog & Newsletter: <a href="https://val-town.notion.site/Blog-6d3ef714d0c849e9be71b3986a1dcd46" rel="nofollow">https://val-town.notion.site/Blog-6d3ef714d0c849e9be71b3986a...</a><p>[1] - Whole Code Catalog: <a href="https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/" rel="nofollow">https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/</a>
Show HN: Val Town – A Cloud Scripting Site
Hey HN! We're so excited to show you Val Town (<a href="https://val.town" rel="nofollow">https://val.town</a>)! A "val" is a JavaScript/TypeScript function or value that runs on our servers. We aim to get you from idea to running code in seconds: type code, run it, get its API endpoint, schedule it - all from the browser, in a couple keystrokes.<p>We're a startup of 4 people, mostly in NYC. We've been working on this for 6 months and are eager for feedback from the HN community.<p>Why do we need yet another online coding IDE? While researching devtools[1], I found myself wanting something halfway between Replit and Zapier: a tool that makes hosting, deploying, scheduling, and authenticating easy, but is first-and-foremost a programming tool.<p>We added `console.email` to the runtime to make it incredibly easy to email yourself. We don't have npm imports yet, but we do have a low-friction system that treats every user as a namespace, so you can refer to `@me.foo + 1` or `@yourFriend.bar()` right in your code. There are a lot of thorny implications this newfangled import scheme creates, but also many joyous and carefree coding experiences! One of my favorite features is that we store every evaluation, up and down the callstack, including inputs, outputs, logs, etc, which has been an amazing aid to debugging.<p>So far, Val Town is mostly used for what we're calling "programmatic notifications": query a data source for new items on an interval and email them to yourself.<p>Get notified when users you "follow" post on Hacker News: <a href="https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.hnFollowPollJob" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.hnFollowPollJob</a><p>Get notified when to close your window during fire season in SF: <a href="https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.aqi" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.aqi</a><p>Get notified when there are new citations on a paper: <a href="https://www.val.town/ernest.newCitationNotification" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/ernest.newCitationNotification</a><p>Subscribe to RSS feeds: <a href="https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.pollRSSFeeds" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.pollRSSFeeds</a><p>A good place to get started would be forking one of those vals and modifying it to suit your needs. Some folks are using the tool in other ways, such as in webhook contexts, and we encourage those uses as well. We'd LOVE to pair-program with anyone looking to try out the tool and give feedback. Email steve@val.town :-)<p>Main site: <a href="https://val.town" rel="nofollow">https://val.town</a>
Docs: <a href="https://val-town.notion.site/Val-Town-Docs-01c8eb9c534b4899802f3a9e31d540ab" rel="nofollow">https://val-town.notion.site/Val-Town-Docs-01c8eb9c534b48998...</a>
Discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/dHv45uN5RY" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/dHv45uN5RY</a>
Blog & Newsletter: <a href="https://val-town.notion.site/Blog-6d3ef714d0c849e9be71b3986a1dcd46" rel="nofollow">https://val-town.notion.site/Blog-6d3ef714d0c849e9be71b3986a...</a><p>[1] - Whole Code Catalog: <a href="https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/" rel="nofollow">https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/</a>
Show HN: Val Town – A Cloud Scripting Site
Hey HN! We're so excited to show you Val Town (<a href="https://val.town" rel="nofollow">https://val.town</a>)! A "val" is a JavaScript/TypeScript function or value that runs on our servers. We aim to get you from idea to running code in seconds: type code, run it, get its API endpoint, schedule it - all from the browser, in a couple keystrokes.<p>We're a startup of 4 people, mostly in NYC. We've been working on this for 6 months and are eager for feedback from the HN community.<p>Why do we need yet another online coding IDE? While researching devtools[1], I found myself wanting something halfway between Replit and Zapier: a tool that makes hosting, deploying, scheduling, and authenticating easy, but is first-and-foremost a programming tool.<p>We added `console.email` to the runtime to make it incredibly easy to email yourself. We don't have npm imports yet, but we do have a low-friction system that treats every user as a namespace, so you can refer to `@me.foo + 1` or `@yourFriend.bar()` right in your code. There are a lot of thorny implications this newfangled import scheme creates, but also many joyous and carefree coding experiences! One of my favorite features is that we store every evaluation, up and down the callstack, including inputs, outputs, logs, etc, which has been an amazing aid to debugging.<p>So far, Val Town is mostly used for what we're calling "programmatic notifications": query a data source for new items on an interval and email them to yourself.<p>Get notified when users you "follow" post on Hacker News: <a href="https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.hnFollowPollJob" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.hnFollowPollJob</a><p>Get notified when to close your window during fire season in SF: <a href="https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.aqi" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.aqi</a><p>Get notified when there are new citations on a paper: <a href="https://www.val.town/ernest.newCitationNotification" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/ernest.newCitationNotification</a><p>Subscribe to RSS feeds: <a href="https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.pollRSSFeeds" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.pollRSSFeeds</a><p>A good place to get started would be forking one of those vals and modifying it to suit your needs. Some folks are using the tool in other ways, such as in webhook contexts, and we encourage those uses as well. We'd LOVE to pair-program with anyone looking to try out the tool and give feedback. Email steve@val.town :-)<p>Main site: <a href="https://val.town" rel="nofollow">https://val.town</a>
Docs: <a href="https://val-town.notion.site/Val-Town-Docs-01c8eb9c534b4899802f3a9e31d540ab" rel="nofollow">https://val-town.notion.site/Val-Town-Docs-01c8eb9c534b48998...</a>
Discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/dHv45uN5RY" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/dHv45uN5RY</a>
Blog & Newsletter: <a href="https://val-town.notion.site/Blog-6d3ef714d0c849e9be71b3986a1dcd46" rel="nofollow">https://val-town.notion.site/Blog-6d3ef714d0c849e9be71b3986a...</a><p>[1] - Whole Code Catalog: <a href="https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/" rel="nofollow">https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/</a>
Show HN: Val Town – A Cloud Scripting Site
Hey HN! We're so excited to show you Val Town (<a href="https://val.town" rel="nofollow">https://val.town</a>)! A "val" is a JavaScript/TypeScript function or value that runs on our servers. We aim to get you from idea to running code in seconds: type code, run it, get its API endpoint, schedule it - all from the browser, in a couple keystrokes.<p>We're a startup of 4 people, mostly in NYC. We've been working on this for 6 months and are eager for feedback from the HN community.<p>Why do we need yet another online coding IDE? While researching devtools[1], I found myself wanting something halfway between Replit and Zapier: a tool that makes hosting, deploying, scheduling, and authenticating easy, but is first-and-foremost a programming tool.<p>We added `console.email` to the runtime to make it incredibly easy to email yourself. We don't have npm imports yet, but we do have a low-friction system that treats every user as a namespace, so you can refer to `@me.foo + 1` or `@yourFriend.bar()` right in your code. There are a lot of thorny implications this newfangled import scheme creates, but also many joyous and carefree coding experiences! One of my favorite features is that we store every evaluation, up and down the callstack, including inputs, outputs, logs, etc, which has been an amazing aid to debugging.<p>So far, Val Town is mostly used for what we're calling "programmatic notifications": query a data source for new items on an interval and email them to yourself.<p>Get notified when users you "follow" post on Hacker News: <a href="https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.hnFollowPollJob" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.hnFollowPollJob</a><p>Get notified when to close your window during fire season in SF: <a href="https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.aqi" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.aqi</a><p>Get notified when there are new citations on a paper: <a href="https://www.val.town/ernest.newCitationNotification" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/ernest.newCitationNotification</a><p>Subscribe to RSS feeds: <a href="https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.pollRSSFeeds" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/stevekrouse.pollRSSFeeds</a><p>A good place to get started would be forking one of those vals and modifying it to suit your needs. Some folks are using the tool in other ways, such as in webhook contexts, and we encourage those uses as well. We'd LOVE to pair-program with anyone looking to try out the tool and give feedback. Email steve@val.town :-)<p>Main site: <a href="https://val.town" rel="nofollow">https://val.town</a>
Docs: <a href="https://val-town.notion.site/Val-Town-Docs-01c8eb9c534b4899802f3a9e31d540ab" rel="nofollow">https://val-town.notion.site/Val-Town-Docs-01c8eb9c534b48998...</a>
Discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/dHv45uN5RY" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/dHv45uN5RY</a>
Blog & Newsletter: <a href="https://val-town.notion.site/Blog-6d3ef714d0c849e9be71b3986a1dcd46" rel="nofollow">https://val-town.notion.site/Blog-6d3ef714d0c849e9be71b3986a...</a><p>[1] - Whole Code Catalog: <a href="https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/" rel="nofollow">https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/</a>
Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp, is now out
Kandria, an open world action RPG platformer written in Common Lisp is now out and available!<p>A prior discussion of Kandria can be found here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026</a>.<p>I'm the lead developer and sole programmer for the project. Would be happy to answer any questions about it!
Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp, is now out
Kandria, an open world action RPG platformer written in Common Lisp is now out and available!<p>A prior discussion of Kandria can be found here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026</a>.<p>I'm the lead developer and sole programmer for the project. Would be happy to answer any questions about it!
Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp, is now out
Kandria, an open world action RPG platformer written in Common Lisp is now out and available!<p>A prior discussion of Kandria can be found here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026</a>.<p>I'm the lead developer and sole programmer for the project. Would be happy to answer any questions about it!
Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp, is now out
Kandria, an open world action RPG platformer written in Common Lisp is now out and available!<p>A prior discussion of Kandria can be found here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026</a>.<p>I'm the lead developer and sole programmer for the project. Would be happy to answer any questions about it!
Show HN: FixScript, an embedded/standalone language with custom syntax additions
Hello, I want to introduce you to a programming language that I've been working on for a few years and is ready to be shared with a broader community.<p>Feel free to ask any question about it, it's hard to describe what it is all about in a single blog post. For examples of a more complex code I recommend looking into to the "src" directory in the SDK. And here are some documentation links:<p><a href="https://www.fixscript.org/docs/sdk/fixscript/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.fixscript.org/docs/sdk/fixscript/index.html</a><p><a href="https://www.fixscript.org/docs" rel="nofollow">https://www.fixscript.org/docs</a>
Show HN: Piano Chord Player
Show HN: Graphic-Walker – A different type of open-source alternative to Tableau
Hello, guys~ I recently developed a data exploration and visualization app which can be used as a different type of open-source alternative to Tableau. It is extremely easy to embed in your apps just as a react component. The original purpose is to develop a lite plugin that can be easily embedded in most cases, it doesn't have to be a large BI, but a lite graphic plugin.<p>GitHub: Kanaries/graphic-walker, <a href="https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker">https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker</a><p>The main features implemented:
* A user-friendly drag-and-drop-based interaction for exploratory data analysis with visualizations.
* A grammar of graphics-based visual analytic user interface where users can build visualization from low-level visual channel encodings.
* A Data Explainer explains why some patterns occur / what may cause them.
* Using web workers to handle computation tasks which allows you to use it as a pure front-end app.
And you can use it in your app as a react component:h me in github or discord.<p>Feedbacks and advice are welcome! Discuss with me in github or discord!
Show HN: Graphic-Walker – A different type of open-source alternative to Tableau
Hello, guys~ I recently developed a data exploration and visualization app which can be used as a different type of open-source alternative to Tableau. It is extremely easy to embed in your apps just as a react component. The original purpose is to develop a lite plugin that can be easily embedded in most cases, it doesn't have to be a large BI, but a lite graphic plugin.<p>GitHub: Kanaries/graphic-walker, <a href="https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker">https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker</a><p>The main features implemented:
* A user-friendly drag-and-drop-based interaction for exploratory data analysis with visualizations.
* A grammar of graphics-based visual analytic user interface where users can build visualization from low-level visual channel encodings.
* A Data Explainer explains why some patterns occur / what may cause them.
* Using web workers to handle computation tasks which allows you to use it as a pure front-end app.
And you can use it in your app as a react component:h me in github or discord.<p>Feedbacks and advice are welcome! Discuss with me in github or discord!
Show HN: Graphic-Walker – A different type of open-source alternative to Tableau
Hello, guys~ I recently developed a data exploration and visualization app which can be used as a different type of open-source alternative to Tableau. It is extremely easy to embed in your apps just as a react component. The original purpose is to develop a lite plugin that can be easily embedded in most cases, it doesn't have to be a large BI, but a lite graphic plugin.<p>GitHub: Kanaries/graphic-walker, <a href="https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker">https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker</a><p>The main features implemented:
* A user-friendly drag-and-drop-based interaction for exploratory data analysis with visualizations.
* A grammar of graphics-based visual analytic user interface where users can build visualization from low-level visual channel encodings.
* A Data Explainer explains why some patterns occur / what may cause them.
* Using web workers to handle computation tasks which allows you to use it as a pure front-end app.
And you can use it in your app as a react component:h me in github or discord.<p>Feedbacks and advice are welcome! Discuss with me in github or discord!
Show HN: Ecode – A minimalist and fast open-source code editor
Hi HN! I've been working on a code editor and I think that it's mature enough to catch some interest. It's using a custom GPU accelerated GUI written in C++. Currently implements some interesting features: LSP, terminal, auto-completion, linters, formatters, custom keybindings, plugins and more. It's a hobby project but still intends to be an alternative to other popular code editors like Sublime, Kate, Lapce, Lite XL (and takes inspiration from them).<p>The project was born as a playground for the GUI I'm developing (eepp GUI) and is advanced enough to currently be my main code editor, but it's a work in progress, and many features are still pending. Some minor hints on how to use it:<p>Folders are used as project (and .gitignore is used to ignore files)<p>The wheel icon on the top-right has all the options you need (Ctrl/Cmd + M to show).<p>Some keybidings to navigate any project (navigation is keyboard driven):<p>Ctrl/Cmd + K = Locate Files<p>Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + F = Global Search<p>Ctrl/Cmd + Number (Go to tab #)
Show HN: Ecode – A minimalist and fast open-source code editor
Hi HN! I've been working on a code editor and I think that it's mature enough to catch some interest. It's using a custom GPU accelerated GUI written in C++. Currently implements some interesting features: LSP, terminal, auto-completion, linters, formatters, custom keybindings, plugins and more. It's a hobby project but still intends to be an alternative to other popular code editors like Sublime, Kate, Lapce, Lite XL (and takes inspiration from them).<p>The project was born as a playground for the GUI I'm developing (eepp GUI) and is advanced enough to currently be my main code editor, but it's a work in progress, and many features are still pending. Some minor hints on how to use it:<p>Folders are used as project (and .gitignore is used to ignore files)<p>The wheel icon on the top-right has all the options you need (Ctrl/Cmd + M to show).<p>Some keybidings to navigate any project (navigation is keyboard driven):<p>Ctrl/Cmd + K = Locate Files<p>Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + F = Global Search<p>Ctrl/Cmd + Number (Go to tab #)