A very simple one I did is a clone of the iPhone calculator as a PWA so I can use it in the iPad. It is plain Typescript without a framework, can be added to the home screen (PWA) and work offline.
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#172Being a co-founder, I often have to wear lots of different hats and needed a way to better manage multiple identities in my browser. I tried Chrome profiles and Firefox containers, but both felt messy. Instead, I wrote my own browser called Wavebox. It started as an Electron app but after quickly finding all the limitations, dropped Electron and built directly on top of Chromium. We're now approaching Wavebox's 7th birthday and going from strength to strength!
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#173I mostly code my own games with a target group of 1, my favourites are http://lalo.li/lsd/ https://updownredgreenetc.franzai.com/ https://spinner.franzai.com/ https://dance.franzai.com/ (basically a lava lamp you can interact with) from the app side i like https://qrpwd.franzai.com/ coded to save my 2 factor backup codes qr encoded and encrypted in my photo stream and https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/thisismy a com…
The QR thing is really cool. Love it. I have often wondered how much "hard" data could be stored as images without loss in various environments such as iCloud, whatever Google has and so on.
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#174I wanted to help my mom keep her mind busy, because she started having memory problems a few years after retiring.
So I made a game that is like Sudoku but uses 9-letter words instead of digits.
Technically, it’s just a simple substitution.
But playing it requires much more mental effort than you’d expect. Due to the fact that letters are shuffled, so it’s not easy to keep track of them.
I’ve made an app, a web version and a paper book.
iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/word-sudoku-pro/id6472858788?l...
Website: https://wordsudoku.win
Paper book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GZDT5JQ
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#175I've written a podcast ad blocker. I'm not based in the US but listen to a few podcasts from large US-based networks. They don't have any ad inventory to sell so instead they fill the slots with ads for other shows on their network and I end up hearing 7 copies of the same ad for the same true crime sludge in each podcast episode. It works by fetching the XML feed, downloading the file and applying an open-source aud…
Do you mind sharing the code for this, or point me to the audio fingerprinting solution you use? I'd love to replicate this.
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#176- With a friend we created SongStitch (https://songstitch.art/) because I wasn't satisfied with the performance and optimisations of existing last.fm collage generators. I embed a last.fm collage on my website, and previous generators didn't resizing, didn't compress well, and were slow causing me to be kicked out of the 250kb club—so it was good enough motivation to build SongStitch (https://github.com/nkoehring/250kb-club/issues/337). We also developed it as open source from the start https://github.com/SongStitch/song-stitch
- I created `gcopy` (https://github.com/TheDen/gcopy) because I wanted to extend `pbcopy` to copy nontext data from the terminal to the clipboard, so I could quickly paste such data in Slack (or as email attachments)—I got tried to having to find it the specific file in Finder to copy or drag it to an app. I've since aliased `pbcopy` to `gcopy` since it's a drop-in replacement.
- Also created `galvani` (https://theden.mmm.page/galvani) to show and change the the power mode status on MacOS from the menubar
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#177https://www.breadcrumb.live/ - i use it as a visual diary of sorts throughout my day
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#178A simple Webserver with GUI for Windows. You navigate to the folder you want to serve and just click "Start".
I use it all the time when I need to serve up some data in JSON for example. I can specify IP and Port to bind to, it has directory listing enabled and it always sets the headers "Access-Control-Allow-Headers: " and "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: " for easier quick testing.
I just threw together some components in Delphi. ;)
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#179https://www.posterramen.com/ - I was having fun with THREE and shaders, and created a tool for making simple posters quick.
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#180I've built https://vokabeln.io to memorize German vocabulary from YouTube videos and websites. Currently at 16000 swipes.