GDO: Garage door Opener, a passkey enabled web interface to trigger opening my garage door. It's basically just a 2 button website, 1 button opens and closes the door with a delay, the other just opens/closes the door.
It uses a passkey auth proxy which allows me to toggle user access.
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#22in theory some publications are available as torrents, in theory they are in batches zipped together and in theory one could, by requesting certain parts of the zip file using a crafted torrent client, download only the publication they are looking for, in theory
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#23Pretty much all my Raycast extensions to open VS Code projects, set Slack status, etc.
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#24Sioyek: a PDF viewer optimized for reading research papers and textbooks. https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek
It has a lot of niche features, but my favorite is the ability to preview or jump to references even when they are not linked in the PDF file.
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#25GDO: Garage door Opener, a passkey enabled web interface to trigger opening my garage door. It's basically just a 2 button website, 1 button opens and closes the door with a delay, the other just opens/closes the door. It uses a passkey auth proxy which allows me to toggle user access.
cool! Where can I learn about how to make a passkey enabled web interface?
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#26I couldn't find an app that has clean UI and also doesn't collect any data for FIRE calculation, therefore I developed my own app and also put it into the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firecalc-early-retirement-age/... Also, developed another app to reduce my Twitter usage. The reason why I created this one is that even though there a lot of Safari Extensions out there, they can access to your Safari histo…
For retirement calculators monte carlo simulations seem like the best way to model risk, but all existing implementations are several orders of magnitude slower than they should be. I made https://james.darpinian.com/money/ to prove that it's possible to simulate a million scenarios in a few milliseconds. You can drag sliders and see simulation results update in real time. Even on phones. Because I made it for my own…
That's cool! I'm planning to add Monte Carlo simulations into my app.
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#27MonsterWriter
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#28GDO: Garage door Opener, a passkey enabled web interface to trigger opening my garage door. It's basically just a 2 button website, 1 button opens and closes the door with a delay, the other just opens/closes the door. It uses a passkey auth proxy which allows me to toggle user access.
Any good ressources on how to setup passkey for such a project?
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#29I got fed up with using loads of different apps to keep track of my flights while doing long term traveling trips so made a simple site to track them using the AirLabs free API.
GitHub: https://github.com/PaulSinghDev/personal-flight-tracker
Public site: https://personal-flight-tracker.vercel.app/no-key
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#30Over the years I created several released and unreleased tools to scratch my own itches.
Software: Swift library to read and modify ZIP archives: https://peakstep.com/claquette/ Screen recording/video/GIF creation app for macOS: https://github.com/weichsel/ZIPFoundation A small CMS to maintain my websites (unreleased)
Hardware: A Time Machine compatible NAS based on a Raspberry PI (PoE powered, 3D printed mountable enclosure)