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Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by pdonis »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #87

Hundreds! Doesn't everyone? Most of them are just bash scripts, many of which have now reached a complexity so high that I wish I'd started writing them in a different language but it's too late now. The majority of the rest are Python. Off the top of my head, the most used ones are: * A replacement front-end for "tar" and various compressors * A script to synchronize my music library to a compressed version for play…

> Hundreds! Doesn't everyone?

I certainly have. Interestingly, one was the same "sanity check" program for my internet connection, because of the same ISP you mention. Amazing coincidence...I don't think. :-)

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by flobosg »

To name a few:

* A script that emails me every day a list of new articles published by a selection of academic journals. Using an RSS reader for this turned out to be too messy.

* A script that generates Spotify playlists based on my liked songs, optionally according to some criteria. The playlists can be sorted according to specific song features (higher to lower energy, for example).

* A zettelkasten engine, including search, rendering, and backup of entries.

* A system to generate and upload backups of my photos from my cameras’ SD cards.

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by mfarstad »

I made a headless sqlite dbms (not nearly as feature rich as the real thing) for my own embedded development. It can show the values of any table, view specific cells, update cells with a text editor interface, beautifies json, and takes in SQL queries as well.

Got some bugs with formatting complex lines of text, but it works well enough for me. I plan on porting to Rust one of these days.

https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by swores »

vax425 wrote: post #104
Trufa wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice! Can you share it?

Sure! It’s not really bulletproof yet and could use some more features, but I’d love to get your feedback and bug reports. I’m thinking about turning it into real product… https://headlamptest.com

Cool product, it's something I'd personally be interested in if free or one-off license, but as someone who just dabbles now and then (but including sometimes for business stuff) it's nowhere near worth the monthly cost for me. $50 one-off would frankly be possibly more than the value I'd get, but I'd definitely buy it in the hope it would be useful. (Appreciate, I'm not everybody and just because that's where I fit it doesn't mean your pricing needs to be aimed at me.)

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by joseloyaio »

I created a "darkmode" pdf reader. It helps a ton with my eyes. Reading long papers on white background is something I don't like so I changed it.

I created it for me but it is somewhat popular on github with hundreds of stars already.

https://github.com/librepgp/NightPDF

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by DyslexicAtheist »

most of what I use is only for me. it's a hobby to tinker. it's mostly workflow tweaks or modules for i3/sway, security relevant things based on netfilter / ebpf ... what all these things have in common is satisfy my curiosity and learn about something new on the way, other times they start out as a tinkering in a new language are a total abomination begging me to be rewritten ...

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by sgjohnson »

philmcp wrote: post #138

I have repetitive strain injury in my hands which made it difficult to play online poker (it's a lot of mouse moving and clicking i.e. folding) So I created a script which took a screenshot every 100ms, it scanned the image and checked the cards I had. If the cards were bad (e.g 2h7s), it clicked "fold" for me automatically

Auto-folders are explicitly banned by basically all online poker sites.

They are practically cheating. Of course if it folds certain hands a 100% of the time, then it’s just horrible for you, because no hand is a fold 100% of the time.

Even 72o is playable from the big blind if you’re the one closing the action and the price is right.

You should probably consider an autohotkeys script, or a mouse with macro buttons.

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by testplzignore »

vax425 wrote: post #104
Trufa wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice! Can you share it?

Sure! It’s not really bulletproof yet and could use some more features, but I’d love to get your feedback and bug reports. I’m thinking about turning it into real product… https://headlamptest.com

> Headlamp is like having a second manager on the team.

I'm not sure I would use that endorsement...

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by swores »

flobosg wrote: post #143

To name a few: * A script that emails me every day a list of new articles published by a selection of academic journals. Using an RSS reader for this turned out to be too messy. * A script that generates Spotify playlists based on my liked songs, optionally according to some criteria. The playlists can be sorted according to specific song features (higher to lower energy, for example). * A zettelkasten engine, includ…

I'd be curious to see the first script, if it's shareable?
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