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vast majority of my own code has never been seen anywhere. portion only by clients/employers because done for them. very tiny slice in FOSS projects
Heck yes, all the time. While it seems like the major computer/OS vendors these days are trying to turn computers into limited purpose appliances, I was first exposed to computers as a child in the late 70's, when it was expected that anyone who owned a computer would also want to program it for their own purposes. My own personal projects tend not to be very large in scope, but can be quite handy. Some examples incl…
Cool, are these open source?
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. :-)
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…
> A secure-but-readable password generator I love pronounceable passwords, but there's research indicating that such generators typically produce lower than expected entropy. Do you mind sharing what algorithm you use?
My biggest personal project is a streamlined android app I use to easily track my own job performance and statistics. I can back up my performance claims with real data, negotiate more valuable terms and identify optimization opportunities. It's helped me increase my profits by about 60% and also allowed me to work a lot less hours because I know how much time I need to accomplish each task and can optimize the use of my time accordingly.
I don't feel comfortable publishing things on github without at least polishing them a bit first and I no longer have enough free time or motivation to do it. Sometimes I come across an interesting concept that I just have to implement to convince myself it works and that I'm not insane for thinking it. Usually lose interest after it's proven, finishing it is a lot of work and it just feels pointless.
(I'd release it but the videos are copyrighted - the clips might come under fair use, but I don't know the law well enough to be sure)
I created a program that prints QR codes onto sheets of peel-and-stick labels. When someone scans the code, they are directed to a simple web app that manages food sharing with my four roommates. We noticed that we buy a lot of the same things (bananas, avocados, eggs, etc), so we implemented a system where anyone can stick a QR code onto something they want to share, and anyone else can scan it to record what they t…
A roommate taking 3 eggs from me doesn’t bother me. Firing off a text, “Hey, I took 3 eggs” is all I need.
We really just don’t like to share these days. That’s the problem we are now solving it appears.
You can check it out at:
set-opt: ensure settings in conf files in /etc. [2]
s4: when i need to do distributed data processing and don’t want to import an apache project. [3]
bsv: when i need maximum performance data processing. [4]
tinysnitch: for monitoring network connections to/from my laptop. [5]
new-gocljs: when i need to start a new fullstack web prototype. [6]
cli-aws: when i need to work with aws from cli or go, and don’t want to import the cloudnative equivalent of an apache project. [7]
aws-rce: when i need remote code execution on aws for great good. [8]
1. https://github.com/nathants/agr
2. https://github.com/nathants/bootstraps/blob/master/scripts/s...
3. https://github.com/nathants/s4
4. https://github.com/nathants/bsv
5. https://github.com/nathants/tinysnitch
6. https://github.com/nathants/new-gocljs