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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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#292Many. Everything i create which is not specific to my own I.T. infrastructure gets posted at https://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/r/>.
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#293I built a local server environment, alternative to MAMP: https://www.servbay.dev
It is an integrated local web development environment management tool designed to simplify the setup and management of various services and development environments for web developers locally.
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#294A Pomodoro timer because I figured for such a simple app I could make one myself that I can adjust to what I want it to be. CheckYourList.app for routine checklists. A now discontinued Woolworths (Aussie grocery store) price alert per product when I used to bulk buy for my online chocolate business. A personal note taking app, focused on capturing hashtagged notes quickly into markdown files which I may release publi…
getfive.app seems to be down due to gatsby cloud. what did it do as i myself also have many todo lists
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#295I initially created Npkill (https://npkill.js.org) for my own use because as a web developer I was always running out of disk space. When we launched it quickly became popular because it seems that not only we had that problem and today it is the most popular tool for that purpose.
Another one I launched was Pill Reminder (https://zaldih.github.io/pill-reminder/). If you are taking something for a cold or medical treatment it allows you to easily swipe and note down when you have taken your medication and lets you know when you are due to take it next.
ScrollTabs (https://github.com/zaldih/scrolltabs-extension) was born so soon after I migrated from chrome to firefox years ago and I missed being able to switch between tabs with the mouse scroll.
+ many others that I would like to prepare and make public for the future.
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#296I wrote an optimized C++ FFMPEG player as a video surveillance system, initially to watch my pets in my yard, and then kept going adding (human) face detection, and then a DL/ML training scaffold, then Live555 re-encoding, then an embedded web browser, then I added tons of comments and turned it into a learning demo project. It's on Github, I still use it to watch my pets: https://github.com/bsenftner/ffvideo
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#297https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn It grew out of a niche, almost historical need: using a QWERTY keyboard, but needing access to German Umlauts (ä, ö, ü, as well as ß). Switching keyboard layouts is possible but exhausting (it's much more pleasant sticking to one); using modifier keys is similarly tedious, and custom setups break and aren't portable. So this tool can do: $ echo 'Gruess Gott, Poeten und Abenteuergruet…
The greeting seems Austrian?
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#298When it became clear many major email providers were going to require OAuth for IMAP/POP/SMTP access, I was pretty frustrated that I’d have to stop using clients/scripts that didn’t support this method.
Rather than spending lots of effort on migration, or switching clients entirely, I made a local proxy so that any IMAP (or POP/SMTP) client can be used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether it supports OAuth 2.0 natively: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy. No need for your client to know about OAuth at all.
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#299At one time the wifi password was altered every day at the office, so I wrote an Android app to get it and set up wifi on my phone.
I also have a bot to verify the agenda for my local consulate, because it is very hard to get an opening and they don't send alerts: you have to login and check the calendar.
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#300Bold Contacts is for me to help my folks who have Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease: https://boldcontacts.org