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#12A few of them.
1. https://github.com/hamon-in/invoice/ was a command line invoicing program that I wrote and used for 2 years before moving to something SasS based.
2. https://github.com/nibrahim/Calligraphic-Rulings is a command line (and later web based - http://calligraffiti.in/rulings) tool I wrote and use regularly while to practise calligraphy
3. https://github.com/nibrahim/Hyde And emacs mode to manage Jekyll/Octopress blogs which I use for my personal site
A bunch of smaller scripts for daily work (e.g. mini pomodoro timer, Emacs scripts to manage client conversations etc.)
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#13A really simple keyboard driven reminder tool for macOS:
https://github.com/Bogdanp/remember
I’ve been using it every single day since I wrote it.
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#14A way to look up error codes that's faster than Googling them: https://james.darpinian.com/decoder/
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#15I was annoyed at how parasitic recruiters started contacting me about jobs in crypto, so i spent the last year building a fully automated job board that ingests all job data automatically and structures it using openai, while also enriching it with relevant company financials to combat information asymmetry.
I’m now using it to find my next job :)
Check it out at: https://jobstash.xyz
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#16I created a note-taking app which works in every* browser, with and without JS and CSS, has bookmarklets for clipping, PKI-backed user accounts, completely portable data format, threaded conversations, completely auditable data structure, labeling, queryable with SQLite, web of trust for the user identities, and support for adding and running code.
* Mosaic has issues, and I have not tested on many pre-Mosaic browsers. I've never tested with WorldWideWeb. I've done extensive testing with Netscape and IE. Older versions of Chrome are extremely flaky for some reason, and often don't even run. Most old and retro browsers work, however, including sessions, posting, voting, etc.
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#17decision matrix web app. features
* automatic weighting & scoring
* draggable criteria/choices interface
tag-based file manager CLI app * keeps all files/directories in a "~/t/multi./tag./structure./" * directory structure is kept in a hierarchical order based on tag frequencies - most common tags are always at the top level directory.
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#18https://stockevents.app
I created it originally for myself. By now it has a few hundred thousand users.
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#19A daemon, which sends RSS posts to my email, because I didn't like any of the standard viewers:
A tool which allows me to embed shell scripts into text files. I use it to generate my website.
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#20I couldn't find an app that has clean UI and also doesn't collect any data for FIRE calculation, therefore I developed my own app and also put it into the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firecalc-early-retirement-age/... Also, developed another app to reduce my Twitter usage. The reason why I created this one is that even though there a lot of Safari Extensions out there, they can access to your Safari histo…
For retirement calculators monte carlo simulations seem like the best way to model risk, but all existing implementations are several orders of magnitude slower than they should be. I made https://james.darpinian.com/money/ to prove that it's possible to simulate a million scenarios in a few milliseconds. You can drag sliders and see simulation results update in real time. Even on phones.
Because I made it for my own use, the UI is terrible. The simulation result you need to pay attention to is the % success at the bottom, which changes as you drag the sliders. The simulation assumptions are reasonable and sophisticated (more so than many existing FIRE tools, especially the use of actuarial tables) but not documented except in the code comments. It would be cool if one of the real FIRE calculators out there with a real UI would implement a fast monte carlo simulator like this. I'd be happy to share how it works.