Love this! Are you exploring more variations in the avatar expressions or does keeping it more limited work better?

Also, are there any unexpected positive or negative outcomes so far? For example, do people feel pressured to smile or anything else like that?

Thanks!

I'm still exploring for sure - but there are benefits to some of the limits. I'd love a more realtime mode for when people are actually in a conversation in our product, but haven't gotten that working perfectly yet.

We initially felt pressure to smile before I made the default a pseudo-smile (check out the three faces in the blog post). Now the "neutral" face looks somewhat happy so no more complaints.

Fun! The basic feature feels like a cross-platform/device way of doing the iOS Messages drawing feature.

Thanks! I bought two iOS devices to develop on, but I haven't ever used the Messages app. Does it animate the drawing for the recipient, or just show the final image?

Cool project! Also, TIL: KYC = Know Your Customer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer ;P

Sorry to hear—my sister is in the same boat with alpha-gal from a lone star tick. It seems that very few people are aware of it.

repo: https://github.com/mrcoles/dateknight

My goal was to not have to dig around for the unique documentation for whatever language/library I was using the moment to format a datetime string.

By unifying the codes across different languages, I was able to make a universal translator that could convert between any of the ones I had supported (and provide a structured autocomplete search too).

It’s not perfect, but hopefully makes some other folks’ lives easier!

I also made a convenience library on top of cheeriojs that supports all of their traversing methods via pseudo-classes in the query string: https://github.com/mrcoles/pseudo-cheerio

You have no idea how much time you just saved me.

Where's the donate button?

ha! I’m glad you find it useful. I’ll never say no to paypal.me/mrcoles ;P

Thx! If I recall, I think the blockquotes were the trickiest one in writing this. I used the same repeated element trick and overflow hidden, but getting the line breaks in there was the final missing piece: https://github.com/mrcoles/markdown-css/blob/master/markdown...

Also, your first sentence is asking the wrong question ;P

Lol, loving all the comments asking what the usecase is or pointing out how it’s not functional.

Here are some other things I’ve built in the past because the code and/or the idea was interesting to me: http://mrcoles.com/failed-projects/ | http://mrcoles.com/dragondrop/ | http://mrcoles.com/tetris/ | http://mrcoles.com/low-res-paint/ | http://mrcoles.com/piano/ — don’t bother asking for a usecase ;)

What does the IDE look like? Or do I have access to a terminal where I can use something like emacs or vim?

The IDE is powered by ACE editor, but you have a terminal that is 100% capable of running emacs / vim, but since the terminals are shared you can't have multiple cursors like you can in the editor.

But you can also enable vim mode from the editor settings if that's your jam.

I would like to see screenshots and a list of supported languages/frameworks.

Also, the homepage says "Run it, commit it, and move on". Do you have native support for git? (And if you do, is it just github, or do you support gitlab, bitbucket, etc?)

The containers are powered by docker, and all of our pre-built docker images come with git pre-installed. You have root on the machines so you can use a package manager to install any packages you feel are missing (the pre-built docker images are ubuntu so you could run `sudo apt-get install subversion` for instance).

Since we're not opinionated you should be able to pull/push from any git server.

Cool idea! I think I’d feel more comfortable using it with some clearer documentation on what exactly happens. The itertools pydocs are pretty relevant (even if their code snippets are “this is roughly equivalent to…”): https://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html#itertool-fu...

Also, what does it say if I do `git help ship`?

Git Town committer here. Our commands output the detailed Git commands when they run. In addition, we provide a summary of what each command does in its man page (see https://github.com/Originate/git-town/blob/master/documentat... for an example).

You have a good point about it being valuable to document the steps run by each command in more detail though. We'll add this, thanks for the suggestion! :)

Btw "git help ship" displays the man page for "git-ship".

Good stuff. That’s nice it outputs the commands. Have you considered adding a `[--dry-run|-n]` flag to see the command output in a safe way?

That's an excellent suggestion, thanks! Coming soon!

Interesting, beacons are definitely becoming more and more present and QR codes never caught on outside factories.