Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by DamnInteresting » Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 9:21 PM UTC

dlivingston wrote: post #239

DamnInteresting wrote: post #236

I operate a long-form nonfiction website, and back in 2012 we wanted to introduce a podcast episode version for each of our articles. I started tinkering with making recordings, but I suffered from the cringe of hearing my own voice, which was amplified by hearing every mistake and retake. I finally got past this problem by rolling my own audio recording software. I paste in the script, and the software highlights on…

That’s so cool. Any chance you’d be okay sharing the script?

This is a little embarrassing, but the tool is actually browser-based, powered by Javascript and PHP. I know that's not the ideal foundation, but those were the skills I had at the time. I do have a copy of it online that I used to demo it for a friend.

Being browser-based is not really a problem for me, because I run it on my local dev server and everything is instant. But over the web it has to upload each wav file to the server, which can be slow depending on bandwidth. It does however indicate when uploads are in progress so you can avoid interrupting it.

One of the ways the tool is unsophisticated is that it's designed for a single user. So anyone with the login can see/hear others' recordings, overwrite them, etc.

Anyway, if you're still interested in seeing it, just email me at: alan at [my HN username] dot com. I can send you the URL, username, and password.

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by snisarenko » Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 9:22 PM UTC

emailmynotes.com (the backend is down right now, working on moving to cheaper hosting)

Send yourself notes from an untrusted computer, without entering passwords.

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by maxrev17 » Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 9:24 PM UTC

I have an augmentation of clickup via their api which lets me report in different ways on subcontractors and tasks/projects/clients over different time periods and calculate overall/historical profitability. Works quite nice :)

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by jazzychad » Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 9:24 PM UTC

I made https://xbm.jazzychad.net as a simple online XBM image editor for use in various Arduino projects that use those little oled displays. It was also an excuse to learn React a few years ago.

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by rcurry » Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 9:24 PM UTC

Sounds dumb but I go camping a lot and still want to access various informational APIs when I’m in limited cell reception areas so I built a bridge that allows me to hook my APIs up to text messaging. I just send a text like “news” and get the latest headlines over sms. It works pretty well even when I don’t have data access I can still usually get the text messages back.

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by ondrek » Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 9:24 PM UTC

https://www.npmjs.com/package/bebusy

Seven years ago I needed time for finishing a school project and wanted to look busy at work. The packages prints random messages to terminal, so you look like you are are in middle of some deployment job or npm install.

Still works as far as I know.

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by aloisdg » Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 9:26 PM UTC

Recently I released a webapp to fix a problem I faced. I can paste any image from my clipboard (mostly screenshot in my case) to get its base64 version so I can integrate it directly in any markdown: https://paste64.vercel.app/

It was also an excuse to try out Svelte with TypeScript: https://github.com/aloisdg/paste64

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by toast0 » Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 9:30 PM UTC

DamnInteresting wrote: post #236

I operate a long-form nonfiction website, and back in 2012 we wanted to introduce a podcast episode version for each of our articles. I started tinkering with making recordings, but I suffered from the cringe of hearing my own voice, which was amplified by hearing every mistake and retake. I finally got past this problem by rolling my own audio recording software. I paste in the script, and the software highlights on…

> it also trims 0.1 seconds from both ends of each sentence's audio so the key press noise is removed

If you wanted to, you could probably use something to wait for sound level to drop, and then cut until the silence ended. Although a fixed cut probably works fine, too.

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by OJFord » Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

toast0 wrote: post #258

DamnInteresting wrote: post #236

I operate a long-form nonfiction website, and back in 2012 we wanted to introduce a podcast episode version for each of our articles. I started tinkering with making recordings, but I suffered from the cringe of hearing my own voice, which was amplified by hearing every mistake and retake. I finally got past this problem by rolling my own audio recording software. I paste in the script, and the software highlights on…

> it also trims 0.1 seconds from both ends of each sentence's audio so the key press noise is removed If you wanted to, you could probably use something to wait for sound level to drop, and then cut until the silence ended. Although a fixed cut probably works fine, too.

Or trigger on key up? Though I suppose maybe there's a slight sound still when the cap hits it's maximum travel if it releases the switch before that?

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by sentinel » Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

http://www.micktagger.app

I have a lot of Spotify playlists and I wanted an Alfred like tool to quickly add songs to my Spotify playlists, mostly using my keyboard. There was none out there that I was happy with, so I built it myself.

Fast forward to today, I've added a few more features I wanted for myself - auto removal of songs I skip often, auto like of songs I listen 100% and a smart playlist feature that gathers new songs from playlists I select into one separate playlist, every Monday.