A bash script that uses only builtins to truncate your PS1 to a fraction of the width of your terminal window.
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#22An in-terminal interface for performing polynomial fits of a small number of data points. I use it for calibrating gamma-ray detectors, and so it has lists of the energies of some common calibration sources.
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#23https://scri.ch/ draw => save => share (you can add .png to the URL)
https://gif.gg/ photos => save => share (you can add .gif to the URL)
I made them because they were useful for me, and I am still happily using them almost every day, especially scri.ch: nothing beats typing scri.ch in a browser from anywhere to quickly sketch an idea (except a napkin and a pen of course).
It’s nice to see other people using them too! :-)
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#24I made http://serializer.io 18 months ago and I still use it multiple times a day to follow tech news. It's how I found this thread.
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#25http://AnthonyDavidAdams.com/memescope
The Memescope is a dynamic kaleidoscope that uses images representing leading news headlines as the source material.
http://PlayTheLoveGame.com or http://amzn.to/2fSyUXX The Love Game started as an app here on HN, then a crowdfunded card game that ended up in Urban Outfitters, Ritz Carlton Hotels & Amazon.
http://AnthonyDavidAdams.com/spacejournals I took those images from NASA / JPL and created a series of 17 journals as part of a crowdfund. They are super beautiful and really incredible as a full set.
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#26I fixed my prediction market last weekend: https://github.com/qznc/prema
It used Mozilla Persona for authentication, which is now gone. Switched to Github OAuth, which went surprisingly well.
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#27Crab - SQL for the filesystem.
Bash is such a pain because of all the incompatible utilities. Its much nicer just to think about logic than to be searching for command switches and dealing with corner cases like .. file names that contain spaces(!)
Free for personal use, $5 / month commercial
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#28https://UpDog.co hosts websites with Dropbox. Currently making < 1k / m
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#29Nyan Mode. https://github.com/TeMPOraL/nyan-mode I made it as a simple joke, but for some reason it rapidly gained popularity among Emacs users, and now I sometimes find it or hear about it in unexpected places. (Also I fear that on my deathbed I'll look back and realize that the most used thing I've ever made in my life was an animated cat for a text editor... sigh )
I have been using this for years and all my work colleagues always ask me "what is that nyan cat on your text editor? that must be super annoying!" and I always have to tell them I just really like it.
Thank you for building this, it's awesome!
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#30I wrote a course scheduler for students at my previous university. It doesn't have that many users, but I get a "thank you" every now and then, which is enough motivation for me to keep it updated. In any case, I automated the entire course data update process, so I only need to run a Python script before the start of each semester.
It's running on the Heroku free tier with a cheap domain, so it only costs me a few cups of coffee every year.
http://jadawil.xyz (sorry for the crappy design!)