I recently wrote and was able to open-source https://github.com/weebly/tinydns-filter. I got tired of using online tools to create individual records that tinydns-data doesn't support, so I wrote a tool to process those "custom" records.
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?
#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
Might be better to go in the reverse direction - get them to store their DNS records under revision control and then when changes are committed/pushed they are deployed. I wrote something like that for Amazon's rout53, https://dns-api.com/ but it wouldn't be hard to wire up a git hook with APIs from DNSMadeSimple, Dyne, or similar I'm sure. (Of course if you don't host your clients DNS then it might be a fight to get…
I thought about that, but some of our clients use 3rd party contractors / internal IT to manage their DNS as well so getting those entities to use it would be hard. Eventually that would lead to mismatched records. The current way, I can actually monitor DNS changes to clients without them having to change anything they are doing. I have thought about a syncing type of feature where you'd be able to schedule a one-ti…
I guess it's good you've got a solution that works then !
If you had the option the simplest way to poll for changes would be to do a hourly/daily/weekly zone-transfer. But many DNS-hosts disable those for security reasons.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#293"Proud" might be a stretch, but some very small tools I get a lot of use-value-for-coding-time out of and thus feel warm fuzzies about:
https://github.com/brennen/bpb-kit/blob/master/home/bin/phot... - copy photos from some common camera media locations.
https://github.com/brennen/bpb-kit/blob/master/home/bin/gif-... - wrap Byzanz and Festival to record a gif of a screen region (and tell me what it's doing so I know when to do stuff).
https://github.com/brennen/bpb-kit/blob/master/home/.sh_comm... - an alias for navigating directory history.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#294http://antigen.sharats.me I'm not the original creator but currently maintaining Antigen: A plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle. Back in the days I made and found quite useful Dumpr: Command line download tool written in bash. https://github.com/desyncr/dumpr
The name suggests it's also inspire by pathogen :D
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#295https://github.com/bazurbat/spawn
A small script to ease chrooting (or docker running) into a development environment with usual set of workarounds (toggleable) like passing virtual filesystems, SSH/X11 env, home directory, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#296The simplest one that I also use the most is start.sh: https://github.com/JangoSteve/start I've been using it for 3 years now, but keep forgetting to tell anyone about it. It's a simple bash script that detects what kind of project your current directory is and runs the appropriate command to start the development server. I created it, because I found myself constantly switching between projects of different types, a…
Thanks for sharing, will definitely use it!
As a somewhat related tool, I started using autoenv (https://github.com/kennethreitz/autoenv) a while ago (automatically sources a .env file when you cd into the directory). I use it to set environment variables, start docker images...
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#297This is minor, but I used the Random Everything(https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Random%20Everything) sublime package at work relatively frequently. I eventually needed to quickly generate lists of up addresses. I used a small Python script locally for awhile and then finally decided to just make a pull request on the Random Everything package.
It was just cool to be able to contribute to a small package I used a lot at the time.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#298I was annoyed last week that ii (http://tools.suckless.org/ii/) didn't support
SSL, so i reimplemented ii inn Golang and added a few extra needed features.
https://github.com/Foxboron/iii
It's essentially just a file based IRC client. Using FIFO files as input, and spitting out the loggs into an out file. I really enjoy the simplicity of the idea and how easy it is to script. Been using it to learn goroutines and some more go, the code isn't the best but it's fun.
Planning to create something like "wii" where you can use the same structure but with HTTP requests. POST to send data into the FIFO file, and GET to read the out file.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#299rsync.net. I am very, very proud of the (very simple) platform that we've built there. It's a basic tool that "just works" - and just works exactly like you'd expect it to . If I were a consumer of cloud storage, this is what I would want it to look like. It pleases me so greatly to know that, right now, someone is doing something like this: pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump" ... while simult…
I have used rsync.net at work in the past, and the service and support is the best I have experienced in any commercial service, period. Good job.
On the other hand, we need a word about that scrolljacking on your homepage...
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought about that, but some of our clients use 3rd party contractors / internal IT to manage their DNS as well so getting those entities to use it would be hard. Eventually that would lead to mismatched records. The current way, I can actually monitor DNS changes to clients without them having to change anything they are doing. I have thought about a syncing type of feature where you'd be able to schedule a one-ti…
I guess it's good you've got a solution that works then ! If you had the option the simplest way to poll for changes would be to do a hourly/daily/weekly zone-transfer. But many DNS-hosts disable those for security reasons.
Yeah thats the trouble. The big providers disable zone transfers so you have to hope for an API. A lot of providers don't make one available. Besides the ones I have up there, there are only 2-3 more that provide a workable API which I'm planning on integrating soon (Dyn & Azure).