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New comment by pratikdeoghare in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

pratikdeoghare — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:50:26 +0000

You might like what I made for myself https://github.com/pratikdeoghare/brashtag

Show HN: Brashtag – A notation for writing trees and a parser for it

pratikdeoghare — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:13:59 +0000

Ideas:

* Keep the notation as small as possible and non-intrusive. * Have a parser that assigns as little meaning as possible and returns a tree that is easy to work with. * Do everything else by walking the tree. * Avoid having to come up with syntaxes and parsers all the time.

I think the design is complete because nothing can be taken away from the syntax or the parser.

I have been using this system for many years now. When I am writing brashtag documents I am think of constructing trees not of typing text.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125432

Points: 1

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New comment by pratikdeoghare in "Ask HN: Who Uses a todo.txt?"

pratikdeoghare — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:08:35 +0000

I use a text file. But I use my own format.

#todo, p1{ Get vaccinated. }

https://github.com/PratikDeoghare/brashtag

Syllogisms Made Easy

pratikdeoghare — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:22:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXRwmOpgqLw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48005669

Points: 3

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New comment by pratikdeoghare in "I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers"

pratikdeoghare — Fri, 01 May 2026 05:40:45 +0000

What I do is use a hash function to derive port number from service name.

Principia Softwarica: Fundamental Literate System Programs

pratikdeoghare — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:34:16 +0000

Article URL: https://principia-softwarica.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914072

Points: 33

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New comment by pratikdeoghare in "Laws of Software Engineering"

pratikdeoghare — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:35:42 +0000

https://norvig.github.io/paip-lisp/#/

Really great book even if don’t care about lisp or ai.

New comment by pratikdeoghare in "Nested code fences in Markdown"

pratikdeoghare — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:08:45 +0000

I faced this problem when designing my own notation [1].

Solved it by surrounding code with more ticks than maximum number of consecutive ticks inside its text. This allows arbitrary nesting.

Postgres solves it by using `$something$ whatever $something$` [2].

[1] https://github.com/PratikDeoghare/brashtag [2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-syntax-lexical.h...

New comment by pratikdeoghare in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

pratikdeoghare — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:11:57 +0000

https://pratik.deoghare.com/ https://pratikdeoghare.github.io/

New comment by pratikdeoghare in "The append-and-review note"

pratikdeoghare — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 13:43:47 +0000

I also use a single text file. I have developed my own notation to give it some structure [1]. I have a parser for the notation that creates tree of the document. Then I write various programs that walk the tree and do cool things. I have been happy(didn't feel like I needed anything else) with my system for some years now.

Checkout the video: https://youtu.be/CpcsOiETgxA

[1] https://github.com/PratikDeoghare/brashtag

Apologies for low quality of video and code. :)

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Example file:

  ```
         [x*x for x in range(10)]
  ```
  #out{}

Now if notebook program is watching the file then it will send the code block to jupyter server and write results to `#out{}` "bag". And file will look like this.

  ```
         [x*x for x in range(10)]
  ```
  #out{
         ````````````````````````````````````````````        
         [0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81]
         ````````````````````````````````````````````}