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Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by nicolasrusso »

smaon wrote: post #88

Hope this fits the request, I created two simple tools recently: - The Simple Password Manager ( https://www.tspm.ch ), a "password manager" that generates a password from an easy to remember passphrase. I created that for myself and to make my friends stop using the same password everywhere. - Pokerplan ( https://www.pokerplan.ch/ ), a scrum Poker tool that I made for me and my co-workers for our scrum pokers during…

tspm might be useful as a chrome extension, wherever you type a specific password it converts it. Although maybe that comes w/ other security issues

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Post by blamazon »

gandalfgeek wrote: post #36

I have a small YT channel [1] and I used to spend 30-40 mins recording and then 2-4 hrs editing to get a final 10-15 min video. Then I fully scripted my video editing using Python+MoviePy [2]. The time savings are sweet. I just feed it my raw video and get the finished video a few minutes later. It cuts out all the dead air as well as the parts I don't want (which I indicate in-video). In general scripting video edit…

That is amazing. I have wanted such a thing for recording videos at work but had no idea how to articulate the idea that was so clearly laid out for me in this 4 minute video.

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Post by username91 »

fraetor wrote: post #159
username91 wrote: post #148

Made something really similar to apple's recently unveiled "universal control," but from Windows -> Mac. Lets me have the mouse wander off the side of the screen if "pushed hard" and it "pops out" on the mac. It has some issues with modifiers sticking and it's hard-coded to my network IPs and screen resolutions, PLUS it requires an unrelated tool I made to actually build the thing; it's on my "open source someday" li…

Synergy does this really well https://symless.com/synergy

Nice! I can feel less guilty about not trying to finish mine. :j

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Post by sturza »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #98

I had a major bike accident, shoulder dislocation that took weeks to recover and broken pinky. I couldn’t type with my left hand, but I couldn’t afford not to work. I looked into one-handed keyboards, found a variety of half-keyboards that mirrored the other half while holding the spacebar. These are patented, and I also couldn’t afford them. Being patented, I was also unable to find software offering the same. So I…

why was Objective C the solution for the tool you built? can you explain more what the product/output is and how you use it?

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by kevindong »

I use NYC's bike share system (Citibike) quite a bit. Unfortunately the app's map of bike/dock availability [0] requires a lot of scrolling and tapping to get info, in my opinion. It definitely looks pretty, but it's not so functional. So, I built my own version [1] that is far more information dense, but much uglier.

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/citi-bike/id641194843

[1]: https://github.com/kevindong/bbam

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Post by Kaibeezy »

k2enemy wrote: post #28

Probably not the kind of tool you are asking about, but I made a pair of woodworking planes that cut a quarter inch wide, quarter inch deep groove a quarter of an inch from the edge of a board. This operation is commonly needed for drawer bottoms and raised paneling. Two symmetric planes are needed so that you can always work with the rising grain of the wood. You can buy adjustable grooving planes and old molding pl…

I made an extra long wrench socket for field repairs of a heavy duty pivoting contraption by cutting a normal 1-1/4” socket in half and welding the wrench and handle sections to either end of a 6” length of steel pipe. The pipe had a smaller outside diameter than the socket halves, but big enough for the threaded rod.

Imagine the hijinks the first time I put that through an airport scanner. Good thing it was 2000 and not 2002.

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Post by compacct27 »

greenyouse wrote: post #80

I wanted frontend debugging in prod so I've been halfway through building a source map injection browser extension for a while. The problem is that source map comments don't work well when the same artifact is deployed across prod and multiple staging environments. For each env at work we have different asset paths which need to be generated. Each server already serves up its source maps behind a firewall (for other…

Oh hey, I’ve been thinking of doing this too. Do you have a repo or anything?

I took frontend bugging in a new direction for me as well—decided to add the file name as a prop to every element on the page (in dev only, just takes adding a Babel loader for it). Helps with unfamiliar areas

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