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Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by npteljes »

I wrote a small PHP to present urls from a text file as RSS. I use this to mass-add torrent files to rutorrent. For each case, I just have to prepare the text file, which is usually done with a small javascript in the browser, then this tool, and rutorrent does the rest.

I also write a small program whenever I'd like to watch a product's stock or availability. This is also case specific, usually a small PHP snippet with some browser-exported cUrl command and parsing the HTML or API response.

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Post by mrek0 »

DarrenDev wrote: post #72

I built a tiny Windows desktop app to hide files on my lap top from anyone who might be using the lap top briefly - visiting in-laws, friends who wanted to check email, etc. Building it was triggered by a nosy but technically un-savy sister who was always poking around. This was about 8 years ago and I use it on all my machines since, even work ones. It 'hides' files by randomly renaming a folder's contents and remov…

Consider creating a dedicated user account for guests

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Post by mvind »

I built an online flashcard platform (memordo.com) which support live-rendering of latex and codeblocks, and custom study/repetition schedules. Memordo has totally replaced Anki for me, which is nice to build something you actually prefer to use.

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Post by culopatin »

devinmcafee wrote: post #338
culopatin wrote: post #212

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I’m on the same boat. I’m building a library website for biologists after seeing my girlfriend’s struggles. I have never built anything like this before, or anything at all really. I decided to use Spring boot because I want to boost my resume and my company hires Java devs. But I’m thinking I should’ve used something more trendy lol. I’m basically at the point of designing the REST API and I’ll have to go through th…

I would work on the project every Sundays for a few hours: sometimes just 1 hour, sometimes as much as 6. After a few Sundays I had a local dev environment running on my computer to be able to track workouts in. At that point I started using my app: I would write my workouts in my phone and then when I got home from the gym enter them into the app running on localhost. After a few weeks of doing that I got fed up and…

Thank you for your reply!

That’s an awesome experience and I am taking the same approach. I don’t have a front end yet either.

The thing that keeps me going is looking back and feeling comfortable now with things that a month ago I thought “I have no idea where to start, the quick start guide means nothing to me, how does this work? Why is it like this?” And now I’m like “oh yeah that makes sense” and I can read other people’s code better

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Post by selfhoster11 »

cheschire wrote: post #280
agency wrote: post #267

A couple years ago I moved somewhere where my only internet option is satellite (HughesNet). The data caps are pretty low (50 GB per month) but if you use data on the “bonus zone” (midnight to 8am IIRC) you get an additional 50GB quota, so I wrote a tool that lets me queue up YouTube videos to download in the middle of the night. It’s a pretty simple collection of scripts that shell out to youtube-dl. I wrote it in T…

There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that starlink isn’t ready for prime time. If you have trees, forget about it.

I'm saying this half in jest, but what about just mounting the antenna on a really long pole? Or on the roof.

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Post by umen »

rolisz wrote: post #356
gandalfgeek wrote: post #191

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Thanks for the kind words. Script is open for anyone to use or adapt. Credit and link back would be nice :-) https://gist.github.com/vivekhaldar/92368f35da2d8bb8f12734d8...

I think they mean that you should make it into a standalone product that can be used by someone who doesn't know what Python or GitHub is. So if you are ever looking for a side hustle, you have a good candidate already.

God help but even after the video i didnt understood what it does ... can some simplify it to me ?

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Post by n_cusan »

I wrote my own CSS reset stylesheet because I was tired of copying over the same additions to normalize.css on every new project and wanted to install it directly from npm. Basically it does browser style normalizing + reseting/removing (almost) all default styles.

https://github.com/nicolas-cusan/destyle.css

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Post by selfhoster11 »

sogen wrote: post #126
Osmose wrote: post #60

I built a music player for videogame music formats because the only other player on MacOS that supported them had a terrible UI and didn't support all the formats I wanted. I consider it a tool because I use it a ton during work to play infinitely-looping songs to help me focus. https://www.mkelly.me/moseamp/ The progression of me building the app was (over a span of maybe 7 years): - Prototype compiling GME[1] into…

Nice, any music suggestions to help focus? Something like EDM, but open to suggestions. Thanks!

Deep House for programming, for some reason. It works.

Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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Post by anonu »

I wrote a python script running on a raspberrypi: would listen for a button press on a sheet fed scanner, make a PDF and send to the destination of my choice.

I could have bought a fancier internet connected scanner but that would have been wasteful.

Does this fall in the tools category? Or it's more automation than tools?

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