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Puzzle solvers: Cryptoquote, Sudoku, Wordle. Display a chart that combines MyNetDiary and Fitbit logs. Correlate 1M bride & groom birth signs. Create election database from phone book. Battleship program (hard rules) Chart GQ EMF-390 EMR (electro-magnetic radiation) detection logs. Log oil furnace thermostat cycles (uses parallel & joystick ports). Convert county grave database to HTML pages for Website
A non-insignificant part of my job involves saving Gmail messages and their associated attachments to specific folders in Google Drive. I wrote a Google Apps plug-in that makes this a single-click activity. It used to take ~20-30 seconds per email to properly save the email as a PDF as well as the attachments. All resulting files have to follow a specific naming convention. I use this tool several times a day and it…
My custom keyboard layout Conkey [0] is surely my most prominent one — I use it constantly (including for typing this very comment). I hate the way the base US layout tends to get distorted in other keyboard layouts with good support for non-ASCII characters, so Conkey had the explicit goal of retaining that basic unshifted layout. I’ve also ended up porting Conkey to Mac and Linux — and given that I’m slowly switchi…
"Also, I made a utility to archive the full text of every website I view and store it in a SQLite database for searching. It’s proven pretty useful when I want to find something I saw a while ago and then forgot." This sounds wild. Is it an extension that just works automatically? Or?
I work as a doctor in the UK and decided to make this site due to a huge asymmetry of information when selecting medical jobs in the UK. In the UK postgraduate medical training is long (10+ years is standard). During this time recruitment is generally done nationally. Everyone does the same interview (for their given programme, e.g cardiology) +/- exam and is given a score. This score is used to rank applicants from 1 to N, and applicants in turn rank jobs from 1 to N. The highest ranked applicant gets their first choice job, the second highest ranked applicant gets their first choice (unless it’s the same as the top ranking candidate, in this case they get their second ranked job). This cascades down until all the jobs are filled. As this is a national process people often end up in jobs far from where they know. Unfortunately only the bare minimal information is given for each job, often just the name of the hospital and even this can be subject to change (they can move you to another hospital in the same rough area with minimal notice). Doctors are also very much temporary workers at a given hospital and are treated as such. It’s normal to only be at a hospital for 6-12 months. This makes doctors prone to poor conditions and harder to raise concerns. This along with a asymmetric power dynamic (if you raise a fuss in a small speciality the consultants in that specialty may make it harder for you to find a job once you complete training) can perpetuate a bullying culture and general poor work conditions for junior doctors. As such I created this website for doctors to write anonymous reviews for their posts.
It’s a bit janky in places and the jobs feature is broken while I update it. Regardless it’s now widely used and is hopefully helping people who are now going through the same struggles I did (my training is now complete).
https://github.com/piku , for sure. I was getting tired of deploying stuff manually or juggling containers for the simplest of apps, so I sat down and wrote most of it in a couple of weekends. I now deploy the vast majority of my personal projects with it (including container-based ones, actually).
I have a crackpot theory that two languages are related, so I'm writing a program to try to reconstruct root words that derive from a common language - using test-driven development.
I wrote a java-based "shortcut" program that runs on both the NAS and my Windows desktop PC.
This is so when I'm ssh'd to the NAS, I can just run a command to open any folder on the NAS in my Windows PC, and vice versa.
Basically both ends open a network socket listening for commands to execute on either side.
I can also enqueue music stored on the NAS in Foobar2k on my Windows PC, or play videos in VLC.
So in the ssh window to the NAS, I just type, "locate -i *michael*jackson* | onlymusic | sc enqueue", and that will enqueue all Michael Jackson music on the server in Foobar2k on my Windows desktop. On the windows end, if there is more than one file then it creates a temporary m3u (or was it m3u8?) playlist and enqueues that, instead of sending a thousand separate enqueue requests.
"onlymusic" is a simple tool I made to filter to only files ending in flac, mp3, wav, etc. I have "onlyvideos" as well.
It's the exact same program running at both ends, but it detects which PC it's running on by what OS is there, because it has to convert the paths to the files between both PCs.
I also set up right-click shortcuts that go the other way - they will open a new tmux window in the ssh session on the NAS in a particular folder.
It's probably all horribly insecure and took me much longer to create than the time actually saved by using it...
But it serves my purposes, and I learnt a lot by setting it up.