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Post by Kexoth »

zokier wrote: post #243
Kexoth wrote: post #186

Universal Beat [0] - When Apple Watch came out I had an idea for showing day & year progress 0-1000.* Open for feedback! * I'm aware that Swatch had this for the day only long time ago, it was called `swatch @beats`. [0] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/universal-beat-different-loo...

Decimal time is cute (albeit not very novel) and makes imho a lot of sense. I'm secretly hoping that maybe on Mars we could end up using millisols for timekeeping. On the other hand dividing a year into 1000 does seem bit more of a novelty, and not very practical. I suppose it is bit of a reminder that the year is passing, in the sense "oh dear, this year is already 87% done"

I also don't think that you can orientate on dates in a decimal manner. With dates it's easier to orientate, but you don't get the exact feeling on progress.

So yes, same as you, when I'm seeing it from time to time I get motivated to do more in the time remaining for the year :)

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Post by 0x1d »

partisan wrote: post #302
0x1d wrote: post #221

https://instafavicon.com/ I created this favicon generator a few weeks ago to generate minimal favicons for my side projects. I'm not good with design tools so it saves me time when I start a new project and want a simple favicon in ICO format. I'm proud of it because it's server-less. I generate the multi-BMP ICO file in binary using ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays in JavaScript. I use a element to create the images/d…

Cool. I like the fact that the icon shows in the actual tab as a preview. I guess what is missing is the option to select a font?

Thanks!

I'm thinking about adding some of the Google web fonts.

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Post by 2color »

mk4p wrote: post #116

https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…

"The workaround is to POST directly from the browser to an S3 bucket and then handle that AWS event with a Lambda. "

Great article and nice project. Do you upload an "event" to a queue type folder on S3? what triggers the Lambda function after the file upload?

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Post by civilian »

lc, or "List Commands used in this directory". It's a bash_history that's directory specific, because the terminal commands I type are usually directory-specific. It is only like 10 lines of bash, and I got help with the bash, but I'm proud of it and I use it everyday. I think my most common usage is `lc | grep partialCommandIcCantQuiteRemember`

https://github.com/pconerly/lc-listcommands-bash/

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Post by Ace17 »

vitorbaptistaa wrote: post #158

https://shellshare.net I have migrated my wife's (then girlfriend) computer to Linux and sometimes I had to configure something on her computer (e.g. a printer). This ended up generating lots of back and forth on the phone with me telling her commands to write in the terminal, and she reading the output out loud. I wanted an easy way to see her terminal. So shellshare was born. Shellshare allows you to run a single c…

Can the same effect be achieved via GNU screen (potentially combined with an SSH tunnel)?

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Post by labjerk »

jessegrosjean wrote: post #244

https://www.taskpaper.com Plain-text todo list: 1. To create a project, type a line ending with a colon. 2. To create a task, type a line starting with a dash followed by a space. 3. Everything else is a note. 4. To create a tag, type the @ symbol followed by a name. 5. Tab to indent and create outline structure. TaskPaper started as few days TextEdit hack in 2006. It's no longer a "tiny" project in terms lines of co…

I use TaskPaper throughout the day, every day. I've tried at least a dozen task-management apps and TaskPaper is the only one that I keep coming back to. It strikes just the right balance between simplicity and customization. I could go on and on, but just know that I, for one, think your pride in the project is justified ten times over!

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Post by jedimastert »

coleifer wrote: post #166

I wrote peewee, a single file Python ORM. It's codebase is very small but it is extremely capable. http://docs.peewee-orm.com

This was actually the first ORM I used. It's currently in a super simple newsletter script I wrote for my university and I plan on using it anywhere else I run into databases and Python. Thanks!

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Post by cushychicken »

I wrote this script three years ago to grab screenshots from my networked Agilent oscilloscope at work. Ten lines of Python, but I use it every day. It saves me a ton of time moving screencaps from my scope using USB (ugh). More importantly, it spares me the agony of trying to rename them and classify them in a batch, hours after I took the original capture. Definitely the best junky little tool I've ever made.

http://cushychicken.github.io/agilent-screencap

I also have some unpublished ones for doing worst case setup/hold analysis in point-to-point DRAM interfaces.

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