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Re: Ask HN: Tools you have built for yourself?

#14
Lots of little web apps:

- https://hw.leftium.com/ is HN the way I want to read it (https://github.com/Leftium/hckrweb)

- Unique format for weather forecast (with historical data): https://github.com/Leftium/ultra-weather#readme

- Pretty veneer over Google sheets/forms for my dance club: https://www.modu-blues.com/

- Quick way to view formatted TaskPaper files: https://plaintext-press.leftium.com/https://www.dropbox.com/...

- User-friendly UI for PwdHash: https://ph.leftium.com/

- POC app my real-estate friend keeps asking for: https://hyunwoo.leftium.com/

- Beat-aware video player: https://phrasier.leftium.com/

- Search for images on multiple sites at once: https://is.leftium.com/

- Custom fork of oTranscribe: https://otranscribe.netlify.app/

- CLI tool to convert YouTube transcripts for oTranscribe fork from above: https://github.com/Leftium/otrgen

- Quick converters/calculators: https://cc.leftium.com/

- Update perpetual calendar event with notifications (for a game I used to play): https://ff.leftium.com/

- Visualize some data (for same game): https://orbs.leftium.com/

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have built for yourself?

#17
I translate children’s books in my spare time. One time, I got a little book called “The Wonky Donkey”, in which all the rhymes rhyme exclusively with the word “donkey”. The task here was to find the appropriate rhyme to my native language’s equivalent of “donkey” (gomar), while at the same time retaining the original meaning. So I built a tool to find all the rhymes to a given word.

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have built for yourself?

#20
My backup script, called with ./backup, and will incrementally backup my servers on the local machine using rsync and brtfs snapshots.

The command "list" to find stuff in the current directory, recursively. Basically "find | grep". Works if you have the Python module or Java package name / path, since "." will match any character, including slashes :-)

    #!/usr/bin/env sh

    if [ "$1" = "-h" ]; then
        exec cat 
And "fkt", which will open the files returned by list with your preferred editor (f for find, kt for kate, because that's my editor and didn't find any fitting name for this command)

    #!/usr/bin/env sh

    editor=kate

    if [ "$FORCE_EDITOR" ]; then
            editor=$FORCE_EDITOR
    fi

    help () {
        exec cat 
Turns out, I use "list" dozens of time per day, I forgot a bit about fkt but I might get back to it thanks to this post because I often copy-paste results from list to open them. I had forgotten about adding this confirm prompt :-)

I'm sure there are existing, better, tools for this though.

(I've never tested them on non GNU systems, there might be GNUisms in them)

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