I hate flashcards so I made my own app for studying Chinese after finishing HelloChinese. Very similar interface, but allows me to bring my own content.
this might help me though- I am in the same boat
Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
#262I built a hydroponic garden as a covid hobby. I wrote software to maintain the garden, water it on schedule, apply ph changes to the water, turn lights on / off, humidify, as well as monitor statistics (temperature, humidity, water temperature, water ph, water conductivity). Rough guess would be that I spent 50 hours actually working on the software. There's a handful of raspberry pis involved. I wrote everything in…
How does it automate ph changes to the water?
Not OP but I use aquarium peristaltic dosing pumps that pump General Hydroponics pH Up/Down solution controlled by a Raspberri Pi with an Atlas Scientific pH sensor.
Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
#263All the time
Many little handy scripts and tools I might even put in front of a web script to share.
None meant to see the light of day or ship.
One way to do it is just list them on a public website for yourself to use
Let seo pick them up and you’ll see if anyone wants it too.
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#264I made a music app for iOS for myself, after not finding anything that did what I wanted as a non-streamer: visualization, audiobooks support, section loops, bookmarks, sleep timers, import from any source, etc.
In the end, I did put it on the App Store (after months of cleanup!) but it's easily the most used app on my phone.
Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
#265Over the past two years I've been working on tooling that allows me to delink programs back into object files. What started out as a bunch of Jython scripts is nowadays a full-blown Ghidra extension that can export working object files from a program selection in two mouse clicks. I'm using it as part of a video game decompilation project, but it also enables a whole bunch of other use cases I've documented on my blo…
I know a linker developer, I'm going to send this to him :) Not sure about heresy according to computer science. Sure, it's not intended, but it's a very clever thing to be able to do.
Delinking by itself isn't a heresy (no more than disassembly or decompilation), but what I do with it definitively is. Ripping out MIPS code from a PlayStation video game and shoving it into a Linux program, dismembering a x86 Linux program and turning it into a native Windows program...
It's when you get creative and throw ABIs out the window in order to create some cursed chimeras that this really becomes heresy.
Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
#266Over the past two years I've been working on tooling that allows me to delink programs back into object files. What started out as a bunch of Jython scripts is nowadays a full-blown Ghidra extension that can export working object files from a program selection in two mouse clicks. I'm using it as part of a video game decompilation project, but it also enables a whole bunch of other use cases I've documented on my blo…
I know a linker developer, I'm going to send this to him :) Not sure about heresy according to computer science. Sure, it's not intended, but it's a very clever thing to be able to do.
Technology like this will create huge selection pressures against desktop apps if it becomes easy for people to reverse engineer, remove payment mechanisms, and then freely distribute. Wouldn’t you think?
Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
#267I wrote a program "syncdir" that will synchronize two directories. I use it every day for making backups. I originally wrote it for DOS eons ago.
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#268My wife is an optometrist (so, an independent worker), and she needs to check the list of patients she has seen (and the types of care they were given) to make sure that it matches correctly with the clinic's records. It is a tedious job, something that takes about 20 minutes per day. With a little scripting, I was able to bring that down to about 5 minutes per day. The time I saved her has added up to several dozens of hours now, and will amount to several hundreds of hours saved as the years go by.
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
this is a really cool project, you should send it to people at youtube, get a job there and implement this in their sidebar...
The projects are dead simple. I think if Youtube wanted to, the would have implemented this long back. It's probably a legal landmine and financial tar pit. But thanks nevertheless.
You’d be shocked at how hard it is to fund, start, and ship even a basic project at a company the size of YT or anything else in the Google/Alphabetaverse. It’s probably also a legal landmine and all that, but organizational friction’s more than sufficient to explain simple useful features failing to ship.
Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
#270Reminds me of a classic story that makes a good programming parable: Back in 2011, my girlfriend was working at a catering company that announced shifts via a webpage and workers had to sign up for them. Other workers tended to pick them up very quickly, so it was hard to get too many shifts. I wrote a quick web scraper to automatically accept any shift offered and email her. For a couple weeks it was great, suddenly…
As they say, Unix gives you enough rope to shot yourself in the foot.