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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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#312A font-viewer for a specific phrase, with my own chosen list of fonts. Mostly for seeing how hebrew looks in different fonts for family name signs.
https://avimar.github.io/fonts-hebrew/demo.html?text=%D7%97%...
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#313I wrote an app for bowling so we can track our scores. It got out of hand and now we have a RPi that connects via BLE to the app to configure a game so all throws are filmed, segmented and stored.
Our bowling scores haven't improved much but it's fun.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#314A font-viewer for a specific phrase, with my own chosen list of fonts. Mostly for seeing how hebrew looks in different fonts for family name signs. https://avimar.github.io/fonts-hebrew/demo.html?text=%D7%97%...
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#315I built a micro-journaling app many years ago to help me get better at being emotionally honest with myself and I think I answered "How do I feel?" and "what's happening?" maybe 4,000 times over a 4 year period. I didn't maintain it and so it fell apart (but might want to revitalize it) but the demo still works: www.ifeelio.com I also started recording audio reflection drills to help me get better at saying how I fel…
Nice! I created a GPT to help me do something similar - it asks you how your day was and (is instructed to) ask insightful questions about the events you mention.
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#316I find that manually reconciling my accounts (bank, credit card, etc) forces me to think about the money I spend. For years I used Microsoft Money. After they discontinued it, I even used their “sunset edition”. I got tired of having to keep a Windows box around for it, and it didn’t run well on Wine, so I wrote my own replacement. It has changed over time. I think it started out as a desktop app using Qt. The current version is a web app written in Go using html/template, and a rewrite is in progress that includes htmx. There have been versions ranging from curses to express and react. This has basically become my test program to write whenever I want to play with a new technology, as I know the problem space pretty well at this point.
I’ve also written code for Arduino and for rtlsdrs to read my smart water meter’s RF mesh network and insert the data into influx / Grafana. This project came about after my city utility office called me when I was on vacation to ask if I was filling a pool. Turns out a toilet had been stuck running for days.
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#317I am subscribed to a lot of newsletters, hence I created a newsletter collector/reader to keep all the newsletters away from my inbox.
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#318https://sim-atc.com
Do online ATC on VATSIM and hated being unprofessional. Gives you airport names, abbreviations, and helps with some calculations.
Surprisingly annoying to get airport data.
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#319A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn't always update the website regularly, and we'd find that any suitable cats would be snapped up before we'd even seen them. I spotted that the website served its data to the frontend via an unsecured internal JSON API, so I built an Elixir app that would poll the API endpoint…
Why not go straight from the json to Twitter?
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#320The chore wheel [1], which my wife and I used to run on an old iPad to track evening chores. It uses local storage for recurring chores and one-off reminders. We tried a bunch of other tools but they were all too full featured or slow to ooperate. It replaced a paper list. When debugging network issues I realized I was going back and forth between my computer, router, and cables under the desk. I created an audible n…
Honest question: I was looking at Wednesday and it said: Cook dinner, Dishes, Trash out. What is the usefulness of tracking this in the app since just entering the kitchen gives you instant status to each of them?