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Currently working on a hub of “simple apps” which currently include a basic social network and car maintenance tracker. I plan to keep adding more useful apps, for example next on my list is budgeting app. Also will make it a PWA so that I can get notifications for example about posts from friends or maintenance reminders and such.
The most recent is a Chrome extension that plays a "server down" tone any time the word "critical" appears on our system monitoring web page (Netdata). It plays that tone when the number of "critical" words goes up, and plays a "server up" tone when the number goes down. It's dead simple and works to give me audio alerts so that when I'm hyper-focused on something, I can get pulled out of it by the "server down" tone. It's gone over well with my coworkers as well.
It uses an on-device model for language detection and results are sub 0.3s thanks to groq
If someone wants to try: https://testflight.apple.com/join/GBxPMw2h
For instance, I wrote a tool that tells me how many simultaneous users I need to simulate X number of real users who are hitting the server only intermittently.
If you write tools for your own use, unless they are really big you tend not to bother with coding style conventions. The important thing is being able to code it up quickly.
I used to write everything is Perl, but I’ve switched to Python. It’s a great rapid prototyping language, and basically everything I do is a prototype.
It allows me to launch vscode projects and devcontainers I often work on very quickly. Saves me so much time!