https://icanhazdadjoke.com
Probably not the best example of a "tool", but it does have an API and a Slack integration. Probably one of the more favorite things I've published.
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#332Angular CLI Tools
https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular-cli-tools
I started with the official Angular CLI (for Angular 2) back when it was still using system.js and it was painfully slow on a windows machine. I realised that 95% of what I needed the official CLI was for generating components/modules/pipes...etc. So over a weekend a friend and I wrote our own CLI tools that generate components and decided to use a simple webpack seed for our projects. Been using our own CLI ever since for (m)any Angular 2 projects.
I heard that the official CLI has gotten better but I don't have a reason to go down that route any more.
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#333https://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!
Thanks! :)
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#334I built https://www.findlectures.com, which is categorized list of lectures and speakers, inspired by the faceted search on Newegg and Amazon, which I wish Youtube had.
It's been a fun project, because I've had to build tools to come up with a lot of quality measures for the dataset.
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#335https://github.com/hnarayanan/shpotify
Shpotify, a command-line interface to Spotify on a Mac. :)
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#336Create Save Prompt
https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Create%20Save%20Prompt
Allows you to quickly save a new file to a location in Sublime Text's input bar by pressing CMD+S, instead of opening the OS dialog which takes a lot longer (especially on OSX).
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#337http://www.betthebill.com/
It's a simple website that randomly picks someone to pay for the entire bill when eating as a group. But unlike credit card roulette, your odds of paying are proportional to your meal's cost, so your expected value is fair.
I know it's simple, but it was my first foray into javascript and d3 and angular. I am proud of how it turned out.
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#338Recently started making http://www.git-browser.com - browse repos by thumbnail.
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#339http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data. EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shut…
Excellent work! I have been traveling down the East Coast for the past month and found all the similar solutions for this problem very clunky. So happy you posted this!
Thanks, I appreciate it.
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#340I made a localization extension for WPF which can take any source of data and turns it into a switchable localization, which is not possible with stock WPF.
https://github.com/SeriousM/WPFLocalizationExtension
I'm pretty proud of it any many users use this extensions, from private to commercial. It's free and open source and I never charged for it (sadly). WPF is now dying and my work will eventually die as well...