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Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by jlelse »

mro_name wrote: post #269
jlelse wrote: post #242

I built my own blogging engine (source at https://jlel.se/goblog ). Previously I used Hugo, but there were just too many workarounds to get my IndieWeb and ActivityPub setups working the way I want them. Writing my own blog software also enabled me to implement other features and focus on performance and simplicity. In addition to that I built a few other tools, like my link shortener. It does everything I need it to…

Interesting. What do you think about such an approach to (micro)blogging for a broad, tech-layperson audience: https://mro.name/o/2021-03-30-142424-prototypefund10-068.pdf

Really interesting!

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

jp1016 wrote: post #223

I have created Codekeep.io that lets you store and share bits of code and text with other users. Snippets can be organized into folders/labels for instant reuse. Create code screenshots and link it with codekeep. It was inspired from Google keep ,I have made the ui and ux similar to it and also added syntax highlighting https://codekeep.io

Pretty interesting, especially the discovery feature. Based on the landing page, do you really have over 1.5k users? That is quite impressive!

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Post by sawyerjhood »

I built auger-state [1] a few months back since I was really unhappy with most front end state management solutions for React. I was tired of the Redux song and dance when building apps with centralized state and I wanted something that was quick to get up and running with, but scaled a bit better than useReducer + context. It has really helped me hit the ground running when building apps.

[1] https://github.com/SawyerHood/auger-state

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Post by dceddia »

ronyeh wrote: post #254
dceddia wrote: post #246

Last year I built Recut[0], a native Mac app that helps speed up video editing by automating the rough-cut process. It finds silence, gaps, and pauses and removes them, creating a cut list that you can import into editors like ScreenFlow, Final Cut, Premiere and Resolve. Here’s the Show HN [1] from a couple months ago. I built it because I was making screencasts and cutting out silence + mistakes was 90% of my editin…

Genius. You need to find a way to market to the right audience and up your price to $79 or something. The current price seems too low for all the time it saves (if I'm a serious vlogger). I'll definitely check it out (and maybe purchase it before your price increase, haha).

Hah, I’ve been thinking about exactly both of those things! $79 is the ballpark I was gonna aim for too.

I’m thinking the YouTuber audience might be a good place to start. People seem to “get it” right away, but nobody knows about it yet.

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Post by Cyberdog »

TheLocehiliosan wrote: post #106

I created a dotfiles management tool, yadm https://yadm.io I'm a huge fan of Git, and the Git mental model just makes sense to me. I wanted to manage my dotfiles in the same way. At the time I had tried several other solutions, mostly similar tools like homeschick and vcsh. I wanted a solution that was very portable, which both of those existing tools were. However, homeschick became a bit clunky to use because each…

This looks cool. I currently have a nest of dotfiles I manage with Git, and since I try to use them across Ubuntu, OpenBSD and macOS, the platform-specific stuff seems useful.

But is there a way to "promote" my existing Git repo to something yadm can use? If I just `cd ~; yadm status` I'm told a Git repo doesn't exist, when it most certainly does (`git status` behaves as expected). Or is the best way to just blow away my existing .git directory and start over using only yadm? I skimmed your docs for an answer to this but couldn't find it.

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Post by asadawadia »

amacneil wrote: post #188

Dbmate: https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate I found most database migration tools tried to be too smart (I'm not a fan of automatic migrations), were too tightly integrated with specific languages or frameworks, or didn't support basic developer workflow pleasantries such as dropping and recreating the database. I created a simple single binary migration tool that runs migrations (sql files), and keeps track of applie…

I love Dbmate! Such a great library!

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by neolog »

djedr wrote: post #205

Created TAO[0] -- a minimal syntax that's even simpler than S-expressions. Building notations on top of it, currently focusing on one for data -- an alternative to XML, JSON et al. Open-source, prototyping on GitHub[1]. Keepin' it simple ain't easy. [0] https://tree-annotation.org/ [1] https://github.com/tree-annotation

Is your project related to the tree notation project or are you the same guy?
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