naiquevin

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Comment · 4 months ago
I’m working on my guitar practice app, Captrice https://www.captrice.io after a brief gap.

The last few months I’ve been reading a lot about neuroscience behind learning and practicing music and I’m fascinated by the subject. It has helped me realise why the app works for me, as well as my own mistakes that held back my progress for many years despite putting in decent efforts.

It was a much needed inspiration to continue working on it with a re-evaluated roadmap.

I recently wrote a blog post about it - https://www.captrice.io/blog/what-makes-captrice-work.html

Comment · 1 year ago
I’m also interested in this. I have a similar use case, to implement “cross device sync” functionality for a local-only webapp. I tried out automerge but it felt like it’s meant for syncing data when multiple users collaborate, and not data sync for a single user who is expected to use only one device at a time (I could be wrong about this).

I have implemented a POC sync mechanism via central server and I believe it’s simpler as it takes advantage of certain assumptions about the app. I’ve yet to productionize it so I am interested in knowing if my understanding is correct or if there are other existing solutions for this use case.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, a generic tool could be useful. Thanks for replying. It gave me some ideas!
Comment · 1 year ago
I've been building a desktop app on the side that addresses the problem of screenshots getting accumulated on disk over a period of time. It provides an alternate workflow for capturing screenshots, where the app let's the user select tags before taking the screenshot. Tags can be associated with actions such as "move to trash after 1 day", "delete after 7 days" or "store in /specific/location".

I have got the main functionality working and I've been using it myself in a crude way (using sqlite client directly for data entry etc.) for about a week. It was not meant to be a serious project to begin with - I just wanted to build something to evaluate Tauri for desktop apps. I am still not 100% convinced if such a tool is worth building, so the code hasn't been published anywhere. Do you care enough about "screenshots management and cleanup" to use something like this?

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Gerrit uses a “Change-Id” trailer with a unique value. When you “fix up” a commit, the commit SHA changes but the change id remains the same. That’s how it can identify different commits with the same change id as patchsets of the same change.

This is based on what I remember (haven’t used gerrit in a while), so it may not be accurate.

I used gerrit in my previous job and miss using it. Would definitely prefer it over GitHub which is more popular (and convenient of course, can’t deny that).

Comment · 1 year ago
Agree about recording and listening to it. I also do it sometimes. My concern about implementing the record/playback functionality is that it may introduce a bunch of complexity considering it's a web app (permissions to record mic, browser compatibility etc, limits on local storage etc.).
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Looks like it's already supported in Alphatex - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/metadata#tuning. You will need to specify the following metadata in the tab editor

\tuning G2 D2 A1 E1 B0

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for reporting. I’ll check this.
Comment · 1 year ago
I haven’t tried using it for bass guitar but I believe it should just work? I assume you want tabs for bass guitar. Alphatab, the tablature editor supports bass guitar and other stringed instruments too. I guess it even supports notation for drums/percussion.

For that matter, I think the app should work for practicing any instrument that can be practiced with a metronome if you ignore tablature (which is only for reference anyway).

For now I want focus on guitar as that’s my primary use case but I’d love to extend it for other instruments in future.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, music notation is configured to be hidden as I felt it would take up extra space. But recently I myself felt the need for it when editing tabs that had triplets. Beams are not visible in tabs. Planning to add a button soon to toggle notation display.

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