Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by thecatalinstan » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:51 PM UTC

I built it because I wanted to able to make websites in Objective-C and I didn't like any of the stuff that existed when I started.

I've learned a lot making it and enjoyed it. I don't know if I would start something like this again. Reading the RFCs and implementing FastCGI and HTTP was a lengthy and tiresome process. I enjoyed it though.

Sure, now you have a bazillion Swift server-side frameworks, but at the time Swift didn't even exist. Call me a dinosaur, but I like ObjC and the Cocoa stack and I think it deserves its place on the web.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by bpowell » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:51 PM UTC

https://github.com/bpowell/brocker

The place I work at is not ready to use something like docker, so I made a cloneish of docker for us to use. We are still in the early stages of it right now. Brocker is a combination of docker and kubernetes. Sorry for the bad documentation, I'm slowly adding more.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by thecatalinstan » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:52 PM UTC

vitorbaptistaa wrote: post #158

https://shellshare.net I have migrated my wife's (then girlfriend) computer to Linux and sometimes I had to configure something on her computer (e.g. a printer). This ended up generating lots of back and forth on the phone with me telling her commands to write in the terminal, and she reading the output out loud. I wanted an easy way to see her terminal. So shellshare was born. Shellshare allows you to run a single c…

Thank you for this one :)

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by iamgopal » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:55 PM UTC

I made software that track pour rate of liquid glass at 1800 centigrade using camera and control its pour rate by moving ~1 MW arc electrodes. I was in my teens and a local company need to quick fix it. My first actual earned money. 13 years later, its still working. :D

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by 0x1d » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:55 PM UTC

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #188

I got tired of remembering how to format date/times as strings and made http://www.foragoodstrftime.com/

I've used this more than a handful of times. Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by sandbags » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:55 PM UTC

I am pretty proud of

http://gosort.it/

My business partner and I often needed clients to sort things (features, objectives, pains, restaurants, you name it).

Eventually we built this tool together. You can create a list, sort it, then invite others to sort the same list and create an aggregate sorted list. There's lots we'd like to improve but it's pretty useful right now.

Hidden behind the JS front end is a Clojure sort-api server that provides an API to sort arbitrary data. We've no idea when that might turn out to be useful.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by Blahah » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:55 PM UTC

getpapers - https://github.com/ContentMine/getpapers

Command-line tool for mass-downloading scientific literature that matches a search query. The crazy thing is that it didn't exist already.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by jakobjs » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:55 PM UTC

dozzie wrote: post #3

There are several. * cfgen, a config files generator that is fed with config templates and parameters to fill them * CronBuilder, to pull a repository, run building command, and save the results in another repository * flowmon, which shows bandwith usage of different streams, each defined by BPF filter (a.k.a. "tcpdump syntax") * sftponly, a shell for jailing in chroot accounts meant for data transfer only (for scp,…

sftponly is really nice, needs updating and wider distribution (more packages for more distros).

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by corysama » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:58 PM UTC

http://paulbourke.net/geometry/polygonise/marchingsource.cpp

I wrote back in uni some 20+ years ago. Since then I've seen it copy-pasted, remixed, translated to different languages and integrated into little projects hundreds of times. It's falling out of favor lately. But, there was a time when it seemed like for each implementation of Marching Cubes, there was a 50:50 chance it was a derivative of that file.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by jaredandrews » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:59 PM UTC

averageweather wrote: post #82

http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data. EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shut…

Excellent work! I have been traveling down the East Coast for the past month and found all the similar solutions for this problem very clunky. So happy you posted this!