Hacker News: mc007

New comment by mc007 in "A Modern Web App in C"

mc007 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:46:42 +0000

came back to C/C++ for same reasons, no supply chain trouble, fits in my head, runs forever, ... here a playground for win32, using partially webview2, all batteries included, openai client , tts, stt, vpl, images, audio, video, ... comes with webview2 apps, settings (and encryption), config, rest server, ipc, testing, CLI11, postgres, installer, doc gen, modbus, OpenCV, daemon, computer use, agent memory, image tools, mcp server/client, experimental flow editor - what a fun and exciting times :) https://github.com/polymech-info/win32-boilerplate

New comment by mc007 in "Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)"

mc007 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:08:36 +0000

Widgets as gallery, filebrowser, Mardkown, images, hero-banner ... are useful in many ways, easier authoring but also rendering a page as email, PDF. You can give LLMs skills on how to use those, eg: "create amazon product layout for all my products" (requires of course extra tools for content introspection and manipulation), seems to work pretty good.

New comment by mc007 in "Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)"

mc007 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:42:39 +0000

interesting, we went from classic CMS to Jekyll, then Hugo, then Astro and finally built our own CMS - for larger sets of content and sites. Fiddling with custom DSLs, templates, weird builds and tricks ... was just way too time consuming - unthinkable my wife would ever touch it or write an article in there :)

Have a look at https://service.polymech.info/user/cgo/pages/poolypress-cms, agentic CMS, translates, creates and manages articles with a few prompts, widget aware.

New comment by mc007 in "Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller"

mc007 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:21:10 +0000

Why does the bundle size matters when playing 3MB+ videos anyway? Curious how I could integrate one of these players without polluting my bundle with duplicates :)

New comment by mc007 in "Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund"

mc007 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:02:35 +0000

setup is easy but you're stuck with one instance. they stripped all multi-tenant features and even the selfhosted version is missing essential features, scaling is off the table though.

New comment by mc007 in "Precious Plastic is in trouble"

mc007 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:27:39 +0000

Hi there, we're working almost 10 years on the subject, also dealing with PreciousPlastic designs, users and problems on a daily basis. From what we can tell, its an extremely violent and fraudulent organization. None of the designs actually worked, nor any of the bold statements can be backed up with evidence. See here the full report : https://forum.osr-plastic.org/t/preciousplastic-review/11066

Its a scam after all, we know also well from others.

New comment by mc007 in "Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD"

mc007 — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:56:25 +0000

that's right; and its pretty good at this, see here a few examples : https://git.osr-plastic.org/osr-plastic/osr-ai/src/branch/ma... (check the generated scad files). For some reason, chat-gpto looses relations, after 5+ parts within an assembly.

New comment by mc007 in "Start a Business from Plastic Waste"

mc007 — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:09:13 +0000

not really - with being in that project since years, the only guys who make money are the machine builders and the project maintainers on Patreon.

New comment by mc007 in "Show HN: Net-Commander – Automation and iOT IDE"

mc007 — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 01:19:58 +0000

thanks, took me long to fix that all over the place. How silly of mine :-)

New comment by mc007 in "Show HN: Net-Commander – Automation and iOT IDE"

mc007 — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 22:42:54 +0000

i am porting since months all my internal packages to npm. The full source stack should be there in a few weeks, all to Github (gbaumgart). Kind of messy thing if you worked with svn externals ;-)

Thank you, gonna let you know!

New comment by mc007 in "Show HN: Net-Commander – Automation and iOT IDE"

mc007 — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 20:27:04 +0000

you mean the Javascript expression editor, or just the API docs? The Expression editor uses an old dump of the Mozilla docs (scraped). At that time I've been really surprised how little documentation for JS and others exists for offline usage or simple integration in an app. It got actually worse over time. However, here the link https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gbaumgart/xide/master/widg... (2 MB). The API docs are done with jsDoc-3 and "ink-docstrap"

New comment by mc007 in "Show HN: Net-Commander – Automation and iOT IDE"

mc007 — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 20:14:56 +0000

Hi, I couldn't resist any longer after 3.5 years buried in the lab to show an alpha of our new automation tool to somebody (i love this board). Please have a look at http://net-commander.com/screenshots and tell me what you think.

You can also download the alpha version for Ubuntu, Mac and Windows (it has still quit some bugs)

What's behind:

I am writing authoring software for experts since 2 decades and I wanted this time to make a tool which enables configuration tasks and automation of any networked device or service. In order to make this work like the new Excel for the new iOT and accessible to hobbiest or any person with minimal tech-skills, I followed the idea of providing a block based programming language which also can run any script in any language on the device. I hope being able to convert the block language via "pseudo" into popular languages like Javascript, C++, etc. Google's Blockly was a great inspiration for that.

Btw, another really big challenge (and very time consuming) is to write a web-based software which feels really snappy fast and works the way we know from older expert software (context menu, ribbons, main-menu, full keyboard support,...)

It is an Open-Source project and I hope somebody might like it here.

Your feedback is very welcome, greets

Show HN: Net-Commander – Automation and iOT IDE

mc007 — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 10:35:39 +0000

Article URL: http://net-commander.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11503311

Points: 32

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