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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by pronopython »

rambambram wrote: post #234
pronopython wrote: post #143

I created adult entertainment apps to organize and have fun with images and videos: - RuGiVi: https://github.com/pronopython/rugivi - Browse your collection of images on an endless screen. Tested with more than 700.000 images at once! - Fapel System: https://github.com/pronopython/fapel-system - Organize your adult images and videos by just using hardlinks and directories. - TopZemen: https://github.com/pronopython/t…

Nice work and the naming is just topnotch!

Thank you very much! I always look for some word-plays. Fapel is a fap-able element, like a Pixel is a picture element. And, um, TopZemen is very nautic, with its sea men ;-)

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Post by carronol »

I wanted to be able to watch the onboard cameras of endurance races all on one (full)screen as some teams publish the live feeds on youtube during races. So I created https://videwall.com where you can add video players (or other web pages) from a URL and they are set up in an optimal way to fill the screen as much as possible.

I used it for the 24 hours of Le Mans and the next races and had a blast watching them that way :) It was also a good excuse to learn React.

I plan to add a few more features and write about the placement logic when I get the time for it.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by klkvsk »

After using a Macbook for a while, I became very accustomed to the "drag with three fingers feature" (found in accessibility settings, as I remember). But I am mostly use Windows, and after getting a new Windows laptop, I really missed that feature.

There are apps for that, but I couldn't find any that is lightweight and able to get around some edge cases, like when while you drag with three fingers and let one finger up, it should let you scroll with two fingers, but let you to continue dragging if that was an accidental move and you put third finger back. And you have to address many such small details to have a seamless user experience with touch.

So I wrote my own, and have been happy with it everyday since. It works with any Microsoft Precision Touchpad certified devices, so driver-independent, but I found that implementation of it can differ from vendor to vendor, and it can malfunction on some. And it is very hard to debug without access to device, so I tested only on my laptop, and couple of my friends'. So due to it, I didn't try to make it widely available, and therefore it actually is for my own use. I'll leave the link if anyone want to try: https://github.com/klkvsk/precise-three-fingers-drag, but if anything, don't ask me, make a PR :)

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by dmoreno »

rtpmidid[1]. After getting some hardware synthesizers and wanting to connect them without using a computer.. but being able to use them too using the computer I stumbled upon with rtpmidi the protocol and it ticked all the boxes I needed. I could connect all my gear to a raspberry pi, use ALSA sequencer to connect devices to each other with another of my programs AseqRC[2], and then use my synths from my DAW without touching any cable.

So after a fast prototype I created rtpmidid and I'm quite happy on how it works.

And it also helps with the USB ground loop noise that it seems unavoidable some times.

For some time I had even two Orange Pis connected to two sections of my gear, using USB gadget support so my MPC One could speak rtpmidi. MPC One has support to connect as host to MIDI devices, but as guest (connect to the computer) only in controlled mode which is not what I needed to convert my MIDI tracks to my DAW.

[1] https://github.com/davidmoreno/rtpmidid [2] https://github.com/davidmoreno/aseqrc

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by lysecret »

A calorie counting app using ChatGPT. I got so bothered by existing calorie counting tools with endless dropdown and then they dont have your exact thingy I don’t care about anyways.

So in my app I usually at the afternoon I just write:

I had a large cappuccino a Bretzel a protein bowl with 500 calories a protein shake with 35g of p etc…

It then parses everything and adds it up and then I know my „budget“ for the rest of the evening.

So takes me a few seconds to enter it all I also integrated it with apple health.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by delboni »

At first I read this post and I thought: nothing, but then I opened my gh account and saw a bunch of random stuff I made.

Here my favorites:

https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/cajus-nfnl neovim configuration / documentation, focused on working with clojure, that I wrote trying to convince an Emacs friend to jump into nvim. (It didn't worked he still on Emacs :D)

https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/nota Static Markdown blog/site using Fulcro & Pathom with no backend source that I did for my blog and for learning cljs + pathom.

https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/super-dice-roll-clj Discord and Telegram bot that roll dices using using commands like /roll 4d6+4 that I did for playing RPG on telegram and testing a clojure backend stack I built.

https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/Graphmosphere A Twitter bot that create random geometric pictures and gifs using only clojure and Java that used GH Action as post trigger. (Disabled because the new api pricing thing on Twitter.)

https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/paro Tool for managing dotfiles directories; Heavily based on rcm that I did for learning Rust. (Horrible code)

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Post by iansinnott »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #191
iansinnott wrote: post #146

I have something of an obsession with being able to search my digital history. To this end I've created a few projects which I still use almost daily: - full text tabs forever [1]: chrome extension to provide full text search over web pages I've visited - browser-gopher [2] (formerly browser parrot): collect browsing history from all browsers - prompta [3]: a ChatGPT UI with full text search and some other niceties […

> full text tabs forever [1]: chrome extension to provide full text search over web pages I've visited This is amazing . But wouldn't this extension end up taking up a massive amount of space? Does it index text which is fetched and hydrated after page load? Also, does it strip HTML from the text so that text like this can be searched with exact phrase matching? Is the source code for fttf available? I'm sure you're…

It doesn't take up too much space. Currently about 70mb on my system. It will grow over time of course.

It used a distilled version of the web page, i.e. "reader mode" and indexes that rather than the full HTML. So yes it indexes plain text only and, in theory, ignores headers footers and other non-interesting parts of web pages.

Anecdotally I find it invaluable for finding a web page I know i've seen but can't remember.

It's not open source as of this comment, but the plan is to open source it. Agreed that OSS for something like this is important. It will index all your auth-ed pages too.

It's also not minified or obfuscated, so the source is "available" in that sense.

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Post by thorin »

patrykp wrote: post #237

https://microphonestudio.app I’ve built an app that connects multiple phones together wirelessly and records audio with all of their microphones simultaneously. Once you finish recording all the recorded audio tracks are immediately available on all the phones for full-mix playback. If you aim for the best, studio quality, you can attach any professional microphone to the phone, too. Should be a nice tool for musicia…

This actually fits with problems I've seen when trying to record practice sessions. Phone recording alone sounds terrible, but miking everything individual isn't really possible where I practice. Unfortunately I only have an android phone.

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Post by captn3m0 »

solarkraft wrote: post #121

A lot of the YouTube channels I watch fit perfectly into the audio-only podcast format. So I made a little script using youtube-dl that turns YouTube channels or playlists into RSS feeds for consumption in podcast apps. It gets rid of so much of the noise that makes consuming media on the platform itself a pain. It's more or less deliberately crappy because I spent just enough work on it for it to be useful to me and…

I've seen other solutions for this (https://github.com/frou/yt2pod, https://github.com/madiele/vod2pod-rss), but i like the approach of just generating these locally instead of keeping a web-server attached to the generator.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by jimkleiber »

I built a micro-journaling app many years ago to help me get better at being emotionally honest with myself and I think I answered "How do I feel?" and "what's happening?" maybe 4,000 times over a 4 year period. I didn't maintain it and so it fell apart (but might want to revitalize it) but the demo still works: www.ifeelio.com

I also started recording audio reflection drills to help me get better at saying how I felt and dealing with emotional conflict. Those are available at www.emoko.fit

I'm sharing these mostly in case others find benefit in them as well. And if you do, I'd love to hear about it :-)

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