經閣 / Sutra Reader — mobile-first PWA for the CBETA Chinese Buddhist canon
Vertical RTL by default, three paper modes (washi/sumi/ash) Offline reading, saved-list + per-position bookmarks
Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#312I made a media center replacement for something like plex or jellyfin, streaming video or audio whenever I am; transcoding, subtitles, specialized dupe and renaming metadata. A little automated datawarehouse that manages all my output in an object store. My own tag system of course. A personalized eval system for llm tools.
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#314Virtdev, my own rootless development virtual machine system. Use it every day. Even integrated it with tmux.
Pugneum, my static site generator based on pug/jade. Technically made many years before LLMs, but AI is fully maintaining it now so I think it counts. It's gotten to the point I believe it's superior to markdown.
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#315A Javascript framework called places.js for creating interactive UIs using web components. It has support for cross component state management, backend data fetching, and web scraping protection. https://codeberg.org/createthirdplaces/places-js/src/branch/...
Here is a website I made with places.js for DC area board game events. https://dmvboardgames.com/
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#316Three that have been really beneficial, and all support/build on a hobby / volunteer effort of mapping mountain bike trails: This one generates maps from OpenStreetMap data + some custom curated info in YAML: https://github.com/c0nsumer/trailmaps.app-map-generator This one converts a basic chunk of OpenStreetMap data to an SVG so I can mark it up (by hand) in Adobe Illustrator to make specifically-styled print/PDF ma…
Ooh the heatmap to tiles idea is cool!
Thanks!
The idea came from using the Strava heatmap in JOSM to trace the proper location of mountain bike trails. I'm trying to use Strava less, and usually have ridden the trails enough myself before mapping them that I could use my own routes... So I figured why not have my own heatmap tile server?
It's also cool to just look at.
I could take it a lot further with time boxing what's displayed and whatnot, but generating the tiles is computationally expensive, so I just stuck with what I have for now. It meets the need.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#317https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek
The wow moment came when it wrote syntax highlighting rules for 40 languages and file formats in ~10 minutes:
https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek/tree/HEAD/render/rule...
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#319I built a mac native PDF reader called Xeil with toggleable darkmode that preserves images (inspired by veil), vim keybinding and fuzzy search. Before this, I was using Skim with inverted color to simulate dark mode.
Dont have the code up for sharing but I documented xeil (along with a few other tools) in my blog: https://paul.mou.dev/posts/2026-04-28-software-for-one/#xeil
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#320I shipped a QA harness for Claude Code. Instead of clicking through flows by hand, it reads your code diffs, identifies the affected UI flows, and tests them in real browser Plus after each run you get screen recordings with console logs, network requests, HARs, and Playwright traces so you can inspect exactly what the agent did :) https://github.com/wizenheimer/canary P.S. I attempted to do a Show HN but got flagged…
Oh, that looks lovely. A much more coherent version of the scraps I've been assembling for myself. Kudos, I'll be giving it a whirl :)