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> Regarding discoverability, I doubt anyone finds projects through GitHub's search or discoverability features, but rather through a search engine like Google or DDG and online communities.

I've found a lot of interesting projects via GitHub search and via GitHub newsfeed (mostly because I follow people with similar interests and they star interesting projects). Google links to discussions in places like online communities, which works quite well too, but Google doesn't seem to rank GitHub very high on search results, even when looking for the exact project name.

Re:Strype, a Python frame-based editor on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:16PM (#30691824)
Generally Scratch-like languages can be referred to as "visual" programming languages, or "block based" languages. "Frame based editors" would be this new combined approach.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language

There is also some support for the Switch with TinyGo (A Go compiler for embedded system), but looking at the current state of the docs for this platform it's hard to tell how well supported it might be: https://tinygo.org/docs/reference/microcontrollers/nintendos...
Re:The rinds of the Cheese Shop menu on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:33AM (#28071535)
A lot of packages actually use PEP 440 versioning: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/

But this is very close to semver and resolution works very similarly.

Re:The rinds of the Cheese Shop menu on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @03:06PM (#28064906)
> There are 16 versions on PyPI which end in a newline character. Of these 16, 12 have registered the stripped equivalent too ... Visually, on PyPI, these look identical

I often navigate through package versions in the PyPI website, and seeing something like this would have driven me nuts!

Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @02:00PM (#27691610)
Good point, to me that explains why this is a GitHub product instead of a Microsoft (or VSCode) product.
It's also not easy to quickly identify it's a link, as the word highlight is the same as the previous examples.

Maybe adding an underlines or something to make it slightly different might help with that.

This is pretty good! One thing I wasn't able to trigger (or understand) was the "hover me" part from the "Interact with the content" section.
Re:Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown on Sunday April 25, 2021 @06:24AM (#26931650)
Thanks for sharing! What would be the main advantage of this vs something like Google Slides?
Re:Product placements may be added to classic films on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:49AM (#26871838)
I definitely saw this in How I Met Your Mother in Netflix, where a movie poster on a cinema wall was (badly) replaced by a newer movie that came out after the show aired. I wouldn't have minded if it was done better, as that specific example was quite noticable, but it is perfectly possible there was a few more of those that I didn't notice.
Re:Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:41AM (#26087591)
How did it end up being absorved by GitHub? The "raw" button in the file views use that domain now.
Re:Go vs. Rust: Writing a CLI Tool on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:47AM (#24047658)
I had exactly the same question, although I haven't tried either language yet. It'd be great if somebody could shed some light on this, as I would find it really interesting.
Re:What the Heck Is Pyproject.toml? on Thursday April 02, 2020 @03:53AM (#22757038)
Apart from packaging I also love the idea of consolidating configurations from different dependencies into a single place.

But when I first moved to pyproject.toml I didn't find its use as widespread as I hoped (flake8 being the dependency I hear about the most without support), so I started collecting a list of projects currently using it, and discussing its use, in an awesome list format. Hopefully it will be useful for other people as well:

https://github.com/carlosperate/awesome-pyproject

Re:How I Teach Classes Remotely on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @04:17AM (#22614623)
You can also create a "public facing" user account that doesn't have any private info or logins. That's useful to for public talks and presentations.
Re:How to write a great Arduino library on Sunday March 01, 2020 @07:43PM (#22460547)
Arduino has recently modularised their IDE, and the arduino-cli can be used to crate a sketch, compile it and flash the board: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli
Re:My Business Card Runs Linux on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @06:56AM (#21878147)
For comparison, the Raspberry Pi 1 had an armv6 core.
Because often you want to reset to defaults when there is an issue connecting to the app.
I'll never understand the idea of punishing employees for honest mistakes. Investing the time and money to hire a competent developer, and their ramp up to full productivity is definitely more expensive than that. Not only that, but the new person might make the same or similar mistake in the future. By being understanding you can save money and have the peace of mind that this mistake won't happen again.
Re:Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @05:55AM (#19736907)
Thank you so much!
Re:Super Mario Bros. Commodore 64 Fan Port Hit with DMCA on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @05:52AM (#19736890)
> Nothing even close to this has ever happened ever.

Famous last words...

Re:Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @08:45AM (#19728011)
Is the frustration meter shown in the talk video part of that original benchmark? Or is it something we could run on top of any page? I had a search around, but didn't find anything.
Re:Medium is a poor choice for blogging on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:53AM (#18448962)
That tool looks interesting, how does it get the data? Does it scrap a user profile? Can it deal with users having a large number of posts (I think the rss and json API only return a limited number of posts).
Re:Salmon, a Python Mail Server on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @01:45PM (#17860983)
I think he was actually wearing it yesterday when he wrote that message!
Re:Introducing the Python Language Server on Friday July 20, 2018 @06:30AM (#17573829)
Thanks!
Re:Introducing the Python Language Server on Friday July 20, 2018 @05:03AM (#17573501)
Does anybody know if this is implemented in Python (I assume in a process run from the editor)? Or has it perhaps been implemented in JS/TS?

The reason I ask is because the Monaco code editor from VSCode can be used in the browser, and having Python Language Server implemented in JS means that any online editor using Monaco could potentially offer the same functionality from the browser itself without having to keep a connection to a backend server doing the lifting.

Re:Horrible doors on British trains (2010) on Monday January 22, 2018 @06:46AM (#16203666)
> touch screens but require pressing on a specific angle the buttons

It's possible the angle thing is because your nail works better than your fingertip. I've had this situation a couple of times, and selecting with the nail definitely worked better, but my experience with this is completely anecdotal.

Re:Google Memory Loss on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @06:15AM (#16157361)
I definitely have this exact issue with Google Calendar as well. I search for the exact wording of an event, and it doesn't show any results that are old. I then manually go back in the calendar and find it, do the search again and ta-da! it now shows up as a search result...
Re:BBC Micro:bit computer now available to all for £13 on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:47PM (#11807688)
I prepared this vagrant script to easily get it up and running in a virtual machine with just a single command and then accessing it through ssh: https://github.com/carlosperate/microbit-dev-env Hopefully other people might find it useful.

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