sawaali
Re:As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook
on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @11:30AM (#44117088)
I have thought through tough problems using pen and paper. Have tried a lot of iterations of digital notebooks, but lost the fluidity and malleability of paper.
These days I have found the iPad + Pencil with an infinite canvas to be the best fit. I use Ahmni (https://www.ahmni.app/) which is a delight.
Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun?
on Thursday March 27, 2025 @01:40PM (#43495946)
It did happen in the Muslim world. There are "slave" dynasties in many parts of that world (Egypt, India) which were robust dynasties borne out of freed slaves.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
on Sunday August 25, 2024 @03:15PM (#41350323)
I think Muziqi ought to satisfy most of these for audiobooks.
Podcasts is on the list.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
on Saturday August 24, 2024 @06:55PM (#41342499)
A feature-rich, nice looking audio player for those who don't stream music: https://sakunlabs.com/muziqi
It has 90% of the features that I wanted, and now I am working on what my users want.
Re:Foobar2000
on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @06:10PM (#41124038)
For macOS Ionica is really really good: https://ionica.app/
For iOS I would suggest my own app Muziqi https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muziqi-for-music-lovers/id6468...
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:30PM (#41072435)
https://ionica.app/
Not open source, but it’s the closest I have come to Winamp. It’s really good!
Re:Replicating D3 Charts with Swift Charts
on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @06:21PM (#40932077)
Not directly, but like most of the examples in the repository, they can be recreated with some custom drawing.
Re:Replicating D3 Charts with Swift Charts
on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @06:18PM (#40932064)
Thank you for Swift Charts. I was surprised by how flexible and powerful the API is.
Re:Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but no...
on Friday July 05, 2024 @01:50PM (#40884653)
I made a music app for iOS for myself, after not finding anything that did what I wanted as a non-streamer: visualization, audiobooks support, section loops, bookmarks, sleep timers, import from any source, etc.
In the end, I did put it on the App Store (after months of cleanup!) but it's easily the most used app on my phone.
Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @11:23AM (#38629628)
I made a Music app for iOS that is geared towards offline libraries and has features like visualizer, EQ, sleep timer that I couldn't find anywhere else.
Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
on Thursday October 12, 2023 @07:43PM (#37864624)
I am almost ready with the music app that I have always wanted; a fully featured app for those of us who love to buy and listen to our own collection. Here is an introductory blog post: https://sakunlabs.com/blog/muziqi-intro/
Some of the features I am including in this version: - import music from the Music app (downloaded locally), from Files app, via a web server - a music visualizer, with three presets - waveform views - mark and store segments of a song - bookmarks - an equalizer and a bunch of smaller features, like pinning music to the Home view, remembering playback for an album or playlist.
TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/7WsEOF6u
Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
on Friday September 16, 2022 @06:33PM (#32872887)
Building a successor to https://metaset.io.
My first stab at this problem (a native data visualization app) was OK, but left a lot to be desired in efficient user workflow.
I am having another go at it, this time with Swift Charts and SwiftUI on the Mac.
How different is the state managementin SwiftUI compared to the state in rui?
Re:Zas Editor
on Thursday April 07, 2022 @11:46PM (#30953135)
There has been a resurgence of native editors these days (Helix, Nova, …).
Every time I rush to check if there are vim keybindings. It's a dealbreaker otherwise!
Re:Ask HN: Tools to visualize data in SQL databases?
on Sunday February 13, 2022 @03:36PM (#30325394)
I wrote an app recently for macOS called Metaset: https://metaset.io/
Re:JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers
on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:01PM (#30013083)
In terms of legibility, aesthetic balance, and not being over-engineered, I haven’t found anything better than M+ 1: https://macwright.com/2014/07/09/mplus.html
My favorite is always missing: https://macwright.com/2014/07/09/mplus.html
Re:Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk abo...
on Saturday June 06, 2020 @07:20PM (#23443222)
I made Metaset (https://metaset.io) to quickly do visual analysis on data sets. Started from my own needs for a project that spit out large CSV files. Excel or Tableau were too cumbersome and I didn't bother doing pandas and matplotlib.
Later I found someone with a similar need but for Postgres databases. It's been pulling in a decent side income.
I am embarrassed by the amateur UI. There is so much I want to do around "smart" visualization, but haven't had time.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @04:49PM (#22816946)
https://metaset.io is a macOS app to quickly visualize CSV, Postgres, or SQLite data with charts.
Saving the iPad – Building an App for Myself
Show HN: Metaset. Charting and data analysis app for macOS
Adopting Reactive Programming on iOS, Finally
A basic Swift static-site generator
Re:Apple File System Reference [pdf]
on Friday September 21, 2018 @01:55PM (#18041448)
Should be San Francisco.
Show HN: BART Up – Real-time BART arrivals at a station near you
Repo Explorer: visualizing Git repository timeline
Ask HN: Technical books for the BART
I am on the hunt for a good CS related book I can read on the BART without needing to crack open a computer to do the exercises. I have read quite a few non fiction and fiction books but miss books that are in my field. I tried the SICP but it was hard to get a lot out of it without writing the code itself. Last time I enjoyed a book in this domain on the BART was the Heads First Design...
Re:Learn to play chess online
on Monday December 07, 2015 @11:13PM (#10694755)
Is there anything similar for Go?