Simple visualization of the relative size of different planets and moons I made when my daughter was asking if the moon is bigger than the earth - http://callumprentice.github.io/apps/celestial_bodies/index....
That's great visualization! Thank you!
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#382https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…
first world problems :)
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#383Let's Encrypt certs hosted: https://www.clearalias.com/
Simple story: I've been involved with a lot of SaaS in my career and unless you're running the latest and greatest, it can be hard to host customer websites on a plurality of custom domains. This just makes that really simple by hosting it for you.
Disclaimer: I posted this earlier today as a Show HN, but posting here as well in case anyone is interested.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#384https://shellshare.net I have migrated my wife's (then girlfriend) computer to Linux and sometimes I had to configure something on her computer (e.g. a printer). This ended up generating lots of back and forth on the phone with me telling her commands to write in the terminal, and she reading the output out loud. I wanted an easy way to see her terminal. So shellshare was born. Shellshare allows you to run a single c…
Wow, that's pretty cool. I've thought about moving my parents to Linux; my mom only uses the internet, and while my dad needs his computer for work, the software he uses supports Linux. I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to support Windows for them for much longer. I use Linux full time, and Windows is slowly changing. I can still talk them through most problems over the phone, but little changes here and there have…
Have you ever considered installing remote screensharing software rather then having to troubleshoot over the phone? That's how I help out my parents.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#385Fuzzyurl.
https://github.com/gamache/fuzzyurl.js https://github.com/gamache/fuzzyurl.ex https://github.com/gamache/fuzzyurl.rb
It's a library for parsing, constructing, and wildcard-matching of common-style URLs. Aside from being crazy useful, the fun part is that I wrote it for Ruby, Elixir, and JS with the same basic interface. Kind of like writing a poem that works in three languages. :)
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#386I built https://snowpool.org about 8 years ago. It's used in New Zealand for carpooling to ski resorts. I'm awful at marketing though so while there are US and Canadian resorts, it's not really used.
Still, it's nice to have a project which results in a little less carbon going into the atmosphere :)
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#387I built https://snowpool.org about 8 years ago. It's used in New Zealand for carpooling to ski resorts. I'm awful at marketing though so while there are US and Canadian resorts, it's not really used.
Still, it's nice to have a project which results in a little less carbon going into the atmosphere :)
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#388https://github.com/charlesdaniel/s3_uploader It's supposed to be a simple S3 file uploader GUI for non-techy people... 'proud' is questionable :)
So uh... general curiosity here. How often do people bring up 'the devil went down to georgia' to you?
Only every other week, much less often than they talk about that proxy app of which I shall not name.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#389http://launchaco.com/
I hate how long it takes me to find a name for my new projects so I made launchaco. It's super simple but has saved me so much time when ever exploring names for new projects.
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#390https://screensquid.com
I'm pretty sure this is best quality user session recorder out there. Just gotta work on the marketing bit :)