Hey HackerNews, I'm the creator of Sol.

Here are some answers to your questions:

- Why Sol?

I started using Raycast, and it's nice, but found it cumbersome, too many features tackled on top of each other with even more cumbersome navigation. I'm a ruthless simplifier and I wanted a similar yet I-don't-want-to-configure-you tool. I also believe that VC money backed tools face the though reality of unrealistic ROI at some point, so I fully expect other tools to squeeze money out of you at some point. I develop Sol on my free time building the tool that I like, and it will not have any registration step or run analytics on you on any shape or form.

- Where are the docs? it is not launching?

You seem to have tried the app at the unfortunate time where I did some breaking changes and fixing some bugs (try option + space it should launch). Regarding docs there is none, and there will be none, if I need to explain how to use the app I have already failed.

- Why is it called Sun and has a black hole logo?

A black hole is a collapsed sun, do be a stickler. Have fun and enjoy.

- Memory use

Not more than chrome! BOOH YA!

Hope you like the app and feel free to submit PRs!

"- Why is it called Sun and has a black hole logo?

A black hole is a collapsed sun, do be a stickler. Have fun and enjoy."

So it's not connected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol)?

Small "s" sun. Not our Sun.

thats a star, our star is called sun

From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sun:

    sun noun
    \ ˈsən  \
    1 a: often capitalized : the luminous celestial body around
         which the earth and other planets revolve [...]
      b: a celestial body like the sun : STAR

Or to quote Carl Sagan: "Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."

that might need some correction...

Wikipedia states: The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

According to some articles on the web, other stars can be suns as well, if they contain a planetary system.

In common language however "the sun" is typically our star. "a sun" might be other stars as well.

I think most people dont understand and think about the difference and thus think a star is a sun.

Commonly known as a star.

(But now I wonder: is there a difference between stars and suns?)

My understanding is that a star is a star regardless of what is or isn't in orbit.

A sun, however, needs to have planets to be a sun.

I searched if there are "free-floating" stars that don't have any planets in their field of gravity, and results essentially say "not since the early days of the galaxy". So nowadays all/most/the overwhelming majority of stars are suns. Very interesting!

Does it have calculator functionality?

It does. Might be a basic one, I suspect it's just sending your input to JS's eval function, but it gets the job done.

EDIT: I said it looks like JS eval because I put in `sqrt` and it showed me something like `function sqrt() { [native code] }`

When I tried to input some actual JS code it didn't do anything. I thought it might make for a basic REPL but no luck.

Clickable link

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/messer/id1586304988?l=en&mt=12

With time sure, I can only integrate with some many CI systems at the same time ;)

Yes! at some point I got tired of web stuff, I try to use small native apps for the day to day stuff, cramming everything into the browser completely kills the benefits of the desktop environment.

I created a small macOS native app, it is a menu bar app for monitoring CI pipelines https://tempomat.dev, something like this is not possible on the web because everything is running on the same browser but native features are so much better

I never heard of Concourse but I definitely check it out

If you can give me your email I can send you an email once TravisCI is supported :)

Woke up with the idea of a small native mac app, how hard can it be? I had been using CCMenu extensively for quite some period of time, but it has many shortcomings, one of them is not being able to monitor other branches than master, it also only shows a very simple status.

Tempomat is a tiny, fast and secure menu bar app to monitor your continuous integration pipelines for your software projects, you just add a token and the app takes care of the rest.

Features ======

- Observe all the projects and all the branches different CI systems, easily tell which branches are building, have failed or succeeded. - Visualize on which step a build has failed - Receive a notification when a branch fails to build. - Trigger a build right from your desktop.

Upcoming features ==============

- More CI systems: currently only CircleCI and AppCenter are supported but more will come - More actions on branches/repositories - Blacklist branches/repositories

Give it a try! I promise you won't be disappointed!

Hey Oscar- this is super neat! I'm working on a CI tool as well, are you planning to publish 3rd party integration details? That'll be super cool!

I would like to keep the tool as simple as possible, but I'm not sure what details you mean, maybe if you can explain it to me a bit more in a email we can flesh out the idea?

Are Github Actions on the roadmap?

Switching from CircleCI and looking for a CCMenu replacement that can track status of Github Actions.

Most definitely yes! right now I'm working on Bitrise integration because that is what we use at work, but next on the map is github actions and other major CI systems

Full-stack senior software engineer

  Location: Currently trapped in Bolivia, normally Munich, Germany
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Typescript/Javascript, React, React-Native, Node, PostgreSQL, AWS, etc etc
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Hmm I feel like I have already seen this before, including vscode intellisense which is powered by some ML models

There is https://tabnine.com/

getcssscan is great, aren't extensions easy to pirate? that would be one concern of mine

After writing this yesterday I had an idea about stress testing, I had to test a few of my services in the past, but it has always been a combination of scripts and/or postman requests, it all feels very tedious, I saw there are already big SaaS players in the market, for example loader.io from sendgrid, but I feel like there is space for a simple tool, postman like, where I can just quickly configure some parameters and fire away from my machine...

If things go well and there is more demand for it, it can be integrated with a SaaS backing, WDYT?