Simple visualization of the relative size of different planets and moons I made when my daughter was asking if the moon is bigger than the earth - http://callumprentice.github.io/apps/celestial_bodies/index....
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#242Disable Facebook's "Seen" function:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facesnoop/kebmejpc...
Definitely not the one that gives me most pride from a technical standpoint, but it is used by a thousand people every day and that's more than enough to make me happy about that small hack.
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#243Universal Beat [0] - When Apple Watch came out I had an idea for showing day & year progress 0-1000.* Open for feedback! * I'm aware that Swatch had this for the day only long time ago, it was called `swatch @beats`. [0] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/universal-beat-different-loo...
Decimal time is cute (albeit not very novel) and makes imho a lot of sense. I'm secretly hoping that maybe on Mars we could end up using millisols for timekeeping.
On the other hand dividing a year into 1000 does seem bit more of a novelty, and not very practical. I suppose it is bit of a reminder that the year is passing, in the sense "oh dear, this year is already 87% done"
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#244https://www.taskpaper.com
Plain-text todo list:
1. To create a project, type a line ending with a colon.
2. To create a task, type a line starting with a dash followed by a space.
3. Everything else is a note.
4. To create a tag, type the @ symbol followed by a name.
5. Tab to indent and create outline structure.
TaskPaper started as few days TextEdit hack in 2006. It's no longer a "tiny" project in terms lines of code. But the original simple idea–plain text todos with 5 formatting rules–remains the core of what TaskPaper is.
I'm very proud of that!
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#245My Elixir/Phoenix project Magnetissimo. When KickassTorrents died, I thought I should just build my own crawler and be done with it.
Elixir's OTP was a fantastic fit, I scrape stuff really quickly with minimal orchestration code. There are bugs here and there, and I haven't had time to circle back and patch a lot of the issues I noticed, but it "works".
I'm proud of it because it broke the 200 star barrier on my Github profile. With Elixir to boot! I love this language.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kudos for friendly easy-going presentation and sleek implementation, enjoyed checking it out. Would’ve signed up were I in the market!
> "were I in the market" > the market of dying is there something about your mortality that you'd like to tell us?
I don’t have a dog.
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#247Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#248I wrote Open-Publisher: https://github.com/chrisanthropic/Open-Publisher with a focus on easy fiction book creation.
Markdown manuscript input with high quality epub, mobi, and print-ready PDF output.
It's a wrapper (your choice of Rake, Bash, or Docker) combining Jekyll + Pandoc with custom PDF LaTeX templates for print-ready (valid PDF-X1A 5x8 and 6x9) and professional epub/mobi ebooks.
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#249http://bostontraintrack.com
Real time tracking of Boston subways, buses and commuter rails.
Made mostly in a weekend and available free and open source [1]. Though it's simple, I think it gives a nice overview of the trains and buses. Boston has stop prediction so in some sense it's kind of frivolous. I think the biggest 'innovation' was to integrate the "map icons" into a nicely visualized open street map [2].
Not super popular but it's been running for around 2 years with ~20 hits per weekday.
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#250https://github.com/geophile/osh
Osh (Object SHell) is a python application giving you a set of Linux like commands which can be composed similar to pipes. However, it is objects, not strings, that are passed from one command to the next.
It includes typical shell stuff, listing files and processes; database access, in which queries yield Python tuples; and distributed access, which distributes commands to the nodes of a cluster and then combines the results. For example, to submit a SQL query to each node of a cluster, getting a count on each, and combining the results:
osh @cluster [ sql "select count(*) from request where state = 'open'" ] ^ f 'node, count: count' ^ red + $
- @cluster: Relay the bracketed command to each node of the cluster. The bracketed command returns (node, count) tuples.
- sql: Submit a sql query (on a cluster node).
- ^: Denotes piping results from one command to the next.
- f: For each result from the cluster, run a function on (node, count) which returns just the count.
- red +: Reduce using +, summing up all the counts.
- $: Print result on the console.