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But forked an ActivityPub server (GoToSocial) to proxy Rss feeds (https://github.com/Timshel/RssTooter).
Spent a couple of days on it initially (but had made something similar for Nitter before). Mainly use it to track Xkcd and software release outside of Github.
Almost all of the software I make in my free time is for my own use. My most used tool I have is a note taking web app that automatically saves markdown files to S3. The most important feature I added was a little button that would automatically make a note for the current day, and put it in the daily notes folder, all sorted and organized. I also have full text search which is very helpful for finding old notes. I a…
For this, I made a Spotify playlist with 41 hours of instrumental soundtrack music that helps me focus. It's not random like yours, but with that many hours, there's enough variation if you put it on shuffle.
It's mostly epic and uplifting movie scores. Or suspenseful and building up to something... none of that 8-bit video game beep boop shrill stuff.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/31buZEaVGW9f5Y4cEcKtbt?si=...
I pretty much stopped writing code for myself/as a hobby when I started writing code as my day job. There really is something about losing passion for a hobby once it becomes work, at least in my case.
I went from writing my own tricked out Web 2.0 blog, writing my own 6502 NES games, writing myriad utilities and scripts to… remodeling my home, learning how to operate and maintain a pool, work on vehicles, garden and homestead.
I think in hindsight my hobby isn’t programming, it’s learning and I just enjoyed learning programming and kicked out into a good career.
I have a 3-letter domain that I use as my personal playground (think "xyz.com"). It features: - One-click anonymous upload of text, clipboard, and files. So from any computer, I can visit xyz.com + ctrl+v to upload the clipboard, write notes to myself, drag and drop a file, etc. It's a risky feature, but there's nothing to attract attention and you don't even get a URL back. - Authenticated sessions see a list of upl…
https://github.com/drewbuschhorn/a_strange_mood_podcast_tran...
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https://astrangemoodpodcast.com/2023/01/17/episode-1-is-dwar...
(1) A script to solve a resource-allocation problem in Grim Dawn (ARPG).
(2) A tiny bit of code added to Garmin's developer kit, to pick apart their .fit files and show me some running metrics that were hard to get at otherwise.
I do have one other thing I've been wanting to do recently, which might even be worth putting out there if/when I finish it. Then again, maybe not. Having been a maintainer for a project with hundreds of contributors before, I can say that coding for oneself feels very liberating. Only as much infrastructure and process as necessary to get the job done. No need to deal with feature requests or bug reports. No commit races, or battles in code-review comments. You know the requirements perfectly (or have a perfectly compliant customer who is willing to change) so if you want to take a short cut you can. I was often a stickler for doing things "the right way" when I was working, but part of the reason I left is that my work seemed to be all about shepherding the process and not the joy of making code grow and do new things. Having total freedom on a project, even a small one, is good balm for a jaded programmer's soul.
To avoid this, I made an extremely simple video platform. I save all my videos there instead. It's still my hobby project that I use the most.
The code is at https://github.com/AlbinoDrought/creamy-videos
There's an optional youtube-dl importer UI at https://github.com/AlbinoDrought/creamy-videos-importer (separated for easier updates)
The importer repo also contains a Firefox extension so any target can be right-clicked -> Import to Creamy Videos -> Select a set of tags -> sent to the importer UI, youtube-dl, and then eventually video storage: https://github.com/AlbinoDrought/creamy-videos-importer/tree...
https://github.com/sirodoht/frank
I use it all the time in combination with pass:
$ frank $(pass hetzner.com | sed -n '4p') | c
Plenty of scripts and stuff to automate and data log various things in our household.