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Re:Show HN: Silly Morse code chat app using WebSockets on Friday October 24, 2025 @01:20AM (#45691038)
Thanks for all the feedback! I added a few of your feature requests :) will try to fix bugs and add some more over the weekend

Show HN: Silly Morse code chat app using WebSockets

https://noamtamir.github.io/morwse/

My dad just bought a new printer. I joked and asked if it also had fax and a scanner. He said yes, not realizing I was making fun of him, so I asked if it also supported Morse code. That made it clear :) Anyway, I decided to take the joke too far and build a silly Morse code chat app for fun.

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Perhaps it could be done. Chords have some structural meaning: chords fit in bars, which fit in lines, which fit in a sheet, a chord has a root, accidental, bass, suffix, etc. And an xml file has a tree structure. I felt like using regex to convert raw text into a tree structure, isn't the right tool for the job. Also, adding new features (for example, time-signature, chord durations) may be difficult to do with regex.
I wrote a CLI tool that converts simple chords text (i.e. "Cmaj7 | A7b9 | Dm7 | G7b9,13") to MusicXML, which can be converted to a nice looking PDF using any music notation software. You can think of it as "Markdown for chords".

Repo: https://github.com/noamtamir/txt2musicxml

super cool