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Show HN: ModelRunner – open source, speech-enabled data management platform https://ift.tt/wNCiTDt

Show HN: ModelRunner – open source, speech-enabled data management platform Warning: this whole post is a blatant plug for my Open Source project https://ift.tt/gESNpvI There is lot of discussion around no code platforms and why developers don’t like them. My view is that they can be very useful to quickly get through the boring parts of a project, like creating master data management screens for example. So I’ve built my own version which interprets models at run time and, it turns out, understands natural language queries too! Hi, my name is Etienne, I love coding and I’ve been doing it for a few decades now so I’d rather focus on code that keeps me interested. Unfortunately, I find that there is always a lot to code before I get to the interesting stuff. So, like every other half-decent programmer, I’ve always tried to automate as much as possible and build reusable libraries by adding levels of indirection and parameters. I’ve been doing this for so long now that my code has become

Show HN: I love FitnessSF, but I hate their mobile app https://ift.tt/eDdi39l

Show HN: I love FitnessSF, but I hate their mobile app In order to enter my gym, FitnessSF, I must load up their mobile app to open a QR code and scan in. Their app takes roughly 10,000 years to load so I stand like an idiot at the front desk, turning the app off and on again to just get the QR code. I wrote a little bit of javascript that hits the FitnessSF API and generates a Mobile Wallet Pass. I also hard coded all the fitness SF lat/long locations, so the mobile wallet will pop up when you're nearby. I hope this restores a little bit of sanity in someone else's life. https://ift.tt/MeFI7mr June 4, 2022 at 05:33AM

Show HN: Cryptid Zero Trust Authentication and Authorization, Open Source Oberon https://ift.tt/c73OFPh

Show HN: Cryptid Zero Trust Authentication and Authorization, Open Source Oberon Oberon makes it possible for a service provider to issue capability tokens to clients in such a way that the service provider never sees the value of the capability token. This prevents the service provider from being able to impersonate the client. Oberon relies upon zero-knowledge proof presentation of the capability token so that the token is never transmitted norrevealed. Instead of the client sending the token to the service—as is done with API tokens today—the client sends a zero-knowledge proof proving that they have a valid capability token issued by the service provider; this is called proof-of-knowledge. GitHub: https://ift.tt/P9HVTx4 Get cryptid: https://ift.tt/UXc14Wj] June 3, 2022 at 11:47PM

Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and online help system https://ift.tt/hkTrv4V

Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and online help system My pandemic project was to find, restore and organize scattered and archived remnants of Palm/HP's mobile webOS platform to help keep these delightful little devices alive. https://ift.tt/CQHnfju June 3, 2022 at 06:28PM

Muni Forward Gets San Francisco Moving

Muni Forward Gets San Francisco Moving By Shalon Rogers A new, red transit lane on Stockton Street  The SFMTA’s Muni Forward program is delivering transit reliability improvements that are transforming the Muni system and enhancing the customer experience. With 80 miles of upgrades since 2014 that often bring travel time savings of 20% or more, Muni Forward is making a big difference in how San Francisco moves.  These upgrades, which can be seen in this Muni Forward Photo Map , draw from a “toolkit” of over 20 reliability and customer experience improvements, such as transit lanes that provided dedicated space for Muni vehicles to cut through traffic, transit bulbs that reduce delays at transit stops and traffic signals with transit priority that give the green light to transit vehicles as they approach the intersection, when possible. The recently completed Van Ness Improvement Project thrust Muni Forward back into the spotlight with San Francisco’s first Bus Rapid Transit

Show HN: A color palette design tool for websites https://ift.tt/zFKrEJA

Show HN: A color palette design tool for websites Hi HN, while building something entirely, I realized that there is a lack of tools to pick colors for websites and web apps. While there certainly is an abundance of tools for color palettes, but they mostly give you three to five bright or pastel colors. Not what you need for websites. For that, you need one or two primary colors, and then stuff like text color, background, and so on. So, together with another web dev I built a small web tool that allows picking exactly the colors you need for web projects and live preview your palette on a selection of demo websites. The first version of the tool is online at https://ift.tt/lVIBdhE. Free and no sign up. We are already using this to for early stage projects, so I hope this provides value for you as well. Of course we are also happy about any and all feedback. Cheerz :) June 2, 2022 at 12:08AM

Emergency Response Transit Lanes Program Shows Long-term Success

Emergency Response Transit Lanes Program Shows Long-term Success By Erin McMillan After the Temporary Emergency Transit Lane program used a quick-build approach to install over 15 miles of emergency-response transit lanes in about 18 months, we have the numbers that show its success. Here is the program evaluation summary.   During the early months of the pandemic, with traffic at an all-time low, Muni routes saw a 15% reduction in travel time on average and as much as 50% on certain corridors. Building off this analysis, the SFMTA identified key routes that could benefit from transit lanes that would preserve those speed and reliability improvements. These transit lanes improved reliability along the entire line, improving rider experience in Muni Service Equity Strategy neighborhoods and throughout the city. This allowed us to provide more frequent and less crowded service at a time when resources were very limited. We launched the Temporary Emergency Transit Lane (TETL) pr

Show HN: Todool, a full blown environment for managing large trees of task lists https://ift.tt/Ov1ZuJl

Show HN: Todool, a full blown environment for managing large trees of task lists Currently an alpha is available in their Discord server. I'm not the creator, if you have any questions about the program feel free to join the Discord server. https://ift.tt/fWM3wcy May 31, 2022 at 01:41PM

Show HN: Resumecreator.io – I built a simple resume builder https://ift.tt/kVaB8mu

Show HN: Resumecreator.io – I built a simple resume builder Hi HN! I'm a developer who noticed that I haven't done much experimentation lately. I decided I wanted to change that this year. This month I built a simple resume builder with the main goal of practicing front-end development, and to scratch an itch I had when updating my resume. :) After it was functional enough, I casually shared with some friends to express my enjoyment of crafting something just for the sake of having some fun. To my surprise they ended up asking how they could send to others. So I went one step further, due to my pure excitement, and hosted it on Netlify to make publicly available. In case you're curious, I used the React component library Mantine[1] in this project. I loved it, so I definitely recommend to check it out for your next React project. Have thoughts to share? I would love to know! :) If you're postponing starting that project you have been thinking of, just do it. Right now.

Show HN: Multiplayer sudoku. Race to fill in the most squares https://ift.tt/3M9RAGc

Show HN: Multiplayer sudoku. Race to fill in the most squares https://sudokurace.io is a free, real time multiplayer sudoku board. Invite your friends and race to fill the most squares. All feedback is welcome. MVP was built over the last ~4 days. Lmk what you think! You can play with as many people as you'd like at the same time May 30, 2022 at 05:08AM

Show HN: Bugfruit – a simple embedded key-value store https://ift.tt/4BDEzRr

Show HN: Bugfruit – a simple embedded key-value store Hey HN! I work on a database for my day-job and I realized I had never written one from scratch, so I wrote bugfruit! Once I was mostly satisfied with it, I looked up some benchmarks to compare my simple database to other brand name key-value stores. I was surprised to see that mine held up fairly well on the subset of benchmarks I replicated. So I used the Pavlo Database Naming System [0] to name it and open-sourced the code. I'd love to hear any feedback you might have on it! [0] https://ift.tt/SP39GCw... https://ift.tt/KWIMJbT May 30, 2022 at 03:14AM

Show HN: NetBird – A P2P Network with WebRTC, WireGuard, SSO, and Zero Trust https://ift.tt/CV1TQGj

Show HN: NetBird – A P2P Network with WebRTC, WireGuard, SSO, and Zero Trust Hey folks! We have just released NetBird. It is a big update so I decided to share it here and get your feedback :) NetBird creates an overlay peer-to-peer network connecting machines automatically regardless of their location (home, office, data center, container, cloud, or edge environments) unifying virtual private network management experience. It uses ICE protocol (WebRTC) to negotiate p2p connections and WireGuard (kernel module, when possible) to create a fast and encrypted tunnel between machines, falling back to relay (TURN) in case a p2p connection isn't possible. Pretty much just a client application installation is needed, the rest is done by the software! Sharing the project with you wasn't the only purpose of the post. I wanted to discuss the future and vision behind it. I'm pretty sure that in a few years, such seamless connectivity without the hassle of configuring firewalls, managi

Show HN: WebRTC Nuts and Bolts, A holistic way of understanding how WebRTC runs https://ift.tt/s8iVnuC

Show HN: WebRTC Nuts and Bolts, A holistic way of understanding how WebRTC runs Hi HN! I’m so excited to show my first open-source project and first post here. I initially started this project to learn Go language, it is an experimental project. The main goal is to track the adventure of a WebRTC stream from start to finish, by debugging the project or tracking the output at console. By trying out this project, you will deep dive into the steps which are taken while starting up a WebRTC session, and more. It consists of a web UI (TypeScript) and a server back-end (Golang) projects. They can run on Docker containers, in development mode or production mode, you can find details in the README file. After some progress on the development, I decided to pivot my experimental work to a walkthrough document. Because although there are lots of resources that exist already on the Internet, they cover small chunks of WebRTC concepts or protocols atomically. And they use the standard way of induct