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Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by mr_o47 »

boyneyy123 wrote: post #337

I have built a few tools for developers: - Mockit - A tool to quickly create mocked APIs. - awsicons.dev - Quickly find AWS icons - EventBridge Atlas - Discover and document your AWS EventBridge schemas I'm currently building a tool that will hopefully help all open source engineers in the world. I want to give open source engineers the ability to quickly create landing pages for their GitHub projects. I think README…

awesome project And I definitely love the idea of helping open source developers with the landing pages

Me as an opensource developer always have a hard time building a landing page as I suck at design

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by gervwyk »

paustint wrote: post #343
gervwyk wrote: post #41

We’ve created https://lowdefy.com and open-sourced it. Over the past 5 years we’ve been building custom B2B and back office web applications. Nothing in the market had the level of customization we required both from a technical and commercial angle. So decided to standardize how we “configure” apps into a platform. We did this by designing a schema by which to define web apps which is easy to read, write and underst…

This looks really cool! Just added a reminder to check out in more detail when I get to a computer :) Thank you for sharing.

Thanks! We are having great fun building it and making it useful for others!

Please reach out if you have any questions: https://discord.gg/WmcJgXt

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by andrey_utkin »

Wearable computer (on-body Linux) with audial calendar reminders and "normal" hand-strapped "desktop" https://github.com/andrey-utkin/wearable-computer/wiki

TODO list and personal project tracker - like TaskWarrior but SQL-accessible https://github.com/andrey-utkin/taskdb/wiki

sqlhub.net - Access to public datasets in form via PostgreSQL server https://github.com/sqlhub-net/sqlhub-net/wiki

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by RichardChu »

I'm making Notabase [1], which is a personal knowledge base for non-linear thinking. It's inspired by note-taking apps like Notion, Roam Research, and Obsidian.

I started it because I wanted a note-taking app for networked thought / Zettelkasten that is easy to use for the average user (not the average Hacker News reader). So you don't need to use Markdown if you don't want to, you can format text in other ways like using the formatting toolbar or through keyboard shortcuts. And syncing between different devices is handled automatically for you since it's a web app.

I also wanted to make it open source [2] so that anyone could look at the code and contribute to it if they wanted to. I'm not a big fan of the way that a lot of the apps in this space are closed source -- you don't really know what they're doing with your data, and it doesn't inspire confidence in the app's longevity.

It's still early in development, but I'm hoping to build a solid community behind it.

[1] https://notabase.io

[2] https://github.com/churichard/notabase

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by TheLocehiliosan »

Cyberdog wrote: post #297
TheLocehiliosan wrote: post #106

I created a dotfiles management tool, yadm https://yadm.io I'm a huge fan of Git, and the Git mental model just makes sense to me. I wanted to manage my dotfiles in the same way. At the time I had tried several other solutions, mostly similar tools like homeschick and vcsh. I wanted a solution that was very portable, which both of those existing tools were. However, homeschick became a bit clunky to use because each…

This looks cool. I currently have a nest of dotfiles I manage with Git, and since I try to use them across Ubuntu, OpenBSD and macOS, the platform-specific stuff seems useful. But is there a way to "promote" my existing Git repo to something yadm can use? If I just `cd ~; yadm status` I'm told a Git repo doesn't exist, when it most certainly does (`git status` behaves as expected). Or is the best way to just blow awa…

The best way would be to use “yadm clone” to clone the remote repo.

yadm will keep its repo in ~/.local/share/yadm/repo.git.

Once cloned, you do not need to be in any specific directory to run yadm.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by slooonz »

As a system administrator, I’m frustrated by two things :

* The existing backup tools, that are all hyper-specialized, all configured differently, all have slightly different feature sets, and so on. You will likely have very different tools to backup, say, your /etc folder and your mariadb database

* cron is cool, but its logging/alerts capabilities are… subpar, to say the least

So I’ve developed tools to alleviate my pain in those two areas.

I’ve just open-sourced the first one : https://github.com/sloonz/uback/. Feedback is welcome ! I’ll probably make a Show HN post about it when it hit 0.5.

For the second one, I’ve made some tools to monitor cron jobs. Not released yet, but open-sourcing it is on my TODO-list too. It will need way more polishing for it tho.

On another shameless plug (but it’s the topic of this post, so let’s be shameless indeed), I needed something very similar to vouch-proxy but that could protect multiple unrelated domains and be configurable with a database (because I’m not the one who is going to configure the ACL, and the guy who is going to configure the ACL is perfectly able to use phpmyadimn). Since the guys behind vouch-proxy were not willing to accept the changes necessary to make this work, I decided to create my own alternative : https://github.com/sloonz/ngx-auth

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by jvanderbot »

I made some CLI tools to show me just how bad I am at my favorite multiplayer games. It calculates some stats on my match journal and does hypothesis tests on various loadouts.

https://github.com/jodavaho/kda-tools

https://github.com/jodavaho/poisson-rate-test

https://github.com/jodavaho/kvc

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