Wipes
Dev tools
debugging and visualization utility
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
0 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.31.
Design: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Nice project
From 1 comment
Nice project. How does buffering work? Does it queue input lines until a browser connects to the websocket server? If multiple browsers are connected, will it broadcast all stdin…
tedchs on HN
Objections
Serving files from current directory by default is undesirable
From 2 comments
I'm not sure I like it serving files from the current directory by default - maybe with an extra flag instead?
voltagex_ on HNNice project. How does buffering work? Does it queue input lines until a browser connects to the websocket server? If multiple browsers are connected, will it broadcast all stdin…
tedchs on HN
Data is discarded when no consumers are connected
From 2 comments
Nice project. How does buffering work? Does it queue input lines until a browser connects to the websocket server? If multiple browsers are connected, will it broadcast all stdin…
tedchs on HNIt throws away the data if there are no consumers. This probably isn't the best idea, but it's simplest. I'll think a bit about alternatives. And,at this point you need to write…
apgwoz on HN
Should respect back pressure on stdin
From 1 comment
Got it. You mind find that wipes would be more similar to other tools that read from STDIN (cat, tail, etc.) if it implements "back pressure" by not reading from STDIN until it…
tedchs on HN
Requests
Make file serving an explicit option instead of default
From 2 comments
Nice project. How does buffering work? Does it queue input lines until a browser connects to the websocket server? If multiple browsers are connected, will it broadcast all stdin…
tedchs on HNI'm not sure I like it serving files from the current directory by default - maybe with an extra flag instead?
voltagex_ on HN
Buffer input until a browser connects
From 1 comment
Nice project. How does buffering work? Does it queue input lines until a browser connects to the websocket server? If multiple browsers are connected, will it broadcast all stdin…
tedchs on HN
Questions
How does buffering work and will all browsers receive all lines?
From 1 comment
Nice project. How does buffering work? Does it queue input lines until a browser connects to the websocket server? If multiple browsers are connected, will it broadcast all stdin…
tedchs on HN
Does it serve a default HTML page or do you need your own consumer?
From 1 comment
Nice project. How does buffering work? Does it queue input lines until a browser connects to the websocket server? If multiple browsers are connected, will it broadcast all stdin…
tedchs on HN
Alternatives named
websocketd
From 2 comments
I am sure I saw similar tool months ago on HN. Someone commented that it looks like inetd in disguise.
est on HNYou probably mean websocketd? Yes, this is really quite similar, but also much simpler.
apgwoz on HN
wswatch
From 1 comment
I did something related, but by running a command repeatedly like Unix watch(1): https://github.com/jzwinck/wswatch
jzwinck on HN