I made a powershell script that automatically creates zoom accounts from a excel sheet. It also sets their profile image.
Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
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#382I was tired of bringing up environments with multiple tools (packer, ansible, terraform, chef etc)
So I wrote a tool that coordinates tools. It's configured as a graph, more specifically, it's configured as a Graphviz file.
Here's a graph that brings up Hashicorp Consul, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Hashicorp Vault, Java private web server, Debian repository, bastion box. It brings up workers as part of the build process. The workers run the actual tools.
https://github.com/samsquire/mazzle-starter/blob/master/arch...
The graphviz looks like this: https://github.com/samsquire/mazzle-starter/blob/master/arch...
Essentially you define dependency -> depender in the graphviz file.
It runs all the tools in parallel and has a GUI.
Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
#383My own newsletter / database of tech links: https://bengtan.com/interesting-things
My own css colour selector/picker: https://bengtan.com/css-named-colours-picker/
My own anti-email-tracking service: https://bengtan.com/blog/email-cleaner-clean-tracking-links-... / https://bengtan.com/blog/email-untracker
My own accounting app: https://www.gigobooks.com/
Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
#384I have made this tool for myself:
https://github.com/Otaka/LuaTextProcessor
it is something like C preprocessor, but with macros defined in lua. I am using it for assembler development in assembler that does not support macros. With this tool I can use high level structures
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#3851. Trading automation platform (with a decent GUI)
2. Dropbox like command line functions for single user repos to be auto-synced across multiple devices
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#386While in a long distance relationship with a med student I once made an email preprocessor that would look up every word longer than 7 characters in a medical dictionary and add a hover over tool tip for any matches.
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#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
IIRC it requires a very wide angle of visibility to the sky. I'm not an owner, I just read some articles about the issues a couple months ago.
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#388A 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 have a pretty clear view of the sky so I’m hoping for the best. HughesNet is barely usable for anything but basic browsing and the plan I’m on is more expensive than Starlink to boot.
Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
#389Two that I can think of:
- a Makefile to export and upload pico8 games to itch.io: https://github.com/tducasse/pico8-deploy
- a tiny in memory database in JavaScript, that I used as a way to keep a global state server side in a multiplayer game https://github.com/tducasse/js-db
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#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that starlink isn’t ready for prime time. If you have trees, forget about it.
I have a pretty clear view of the sky so I’m hoping for the best. HughesNet is barely usable for anything but basic browsing and the plan I’m on is more expensive than Starlink to boot.
Indeed. I'm only encouraging you to go in with your eyes open, rather than discouraging you from trying altogether. Internet quality is definitely one of the downsides to living outside of major population centers, and I do respect HughesNet for managing to provide internet to so much low density space. I hope that starlink does become a solid competitor in these regions though once the kinks are worked out.