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Sioyek: 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.
WEB: I wrote a news app (plain-text website) that provides byte-sized news and optimizes for skimmability (https://news.tatooine.club/).
API: I needed to import indian mutual fund data into beancount, so I wrote up an API (https://mf.captnemo.in/) and wrote a small beancount plugin for that uses it.
CLI: I wanted to download songs from youtube, but they were often stitched as complete albums - so I wrote a youtube-cue generator that generates cuesheets that can then be used to split and tag the yt-dlp downloaded audio file. (https://github.com/captn3m0/youtube-cue)
It was mainly born out of my need to re-learn a lot of hotkeys when switching from using Windows to macOS. I wanted an easy way to record and keep all the new shortcuts I learned every day in one place.
CheckYourList.app for routine checklists.
A now discontinued Woolworths (Aussie grocery store) price alert per product when I used to bulk buy for my online chocolate business.
A personal note taking app, focused on capturing hashtagged notes quickly into markdown files which I may release publicly one day.
Beeptestwatch.com to do beep tests without sound from my Apple Watch
Autounsubscribe.me to clean up my inbox.
Getfive.app as an attempt to limit my infinite todo lists.
Some of these apps I released as products, but they all start as an app I built for myself.
I’ve been using it almost daily for the past couple of years, and so far it has served me quite well.
→ Project site / docs / demo: https://klog.jotaen.net
→ File spec: https://github.com/jotaen/klog/blob/main/Specification.md
Fun topic! These days I build everything for myself, then publish and see if someone else is interested (mostly not :-) First thing I built, when I started doing full-stack stuff: https://pushdata.io It's a super simple time series data storage. You don't even have to register an account, just do "curl -X POST https://pushdata.io/youremail@yourdomain.com/temperature/47 " and you've stored your first value. I use it a…
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I'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…