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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?

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Post by LongTermBond007 »

jimmies wrote: post #102

My hakko soldering station doesn't automatically turn off if I leave it on. One time I was leaving town and had to worry about my house fire for the whole weekend. So I made an Arduino/msp430 from spare parts to do just that. https://gist.github.com/htruong/bed170c71983dfcc7c0968174aae... Other than that, I also made a Apple ADB to USB converter so I can use my old Apple Extended keyboard II with my new computer. Har…

Do you have any details on the ADB convertor? I have a few old keyboards I'd love to be able to use!

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by SeriousM »

Aardappel wrote: post #281

http://strlen.com/treesheets/ It's a cross between an outliner / spreadsheet / mind-mapper and general note taker. I've spent significantly more hours using it than I've spent programming it, so that's a win in my book :)

I used it for a while but I forgot sometimes the key scheme so it got unusable from time to time. Anyway, it's awesome idea!

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Post by carapace »

I don't have it on this machine, but I wrote a little Python/Tkinter script that wrapped a call to GNU aspell.

Select text, activate script (by shortcut button on bar or global control key combo), and a little window pops up with spelling suggestions.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by komali2 »

blauditore wrote: post #200
mk4p wrote: post #116

https://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…

Google has a similar feature to give trusted people access to your data if you've been inactive for a given amount of time (so probably dead): https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive

Wow, going through that was a bit emotional. You've got to set up an email that gets sent to your contacts when you've been inactive for >3months. That'll only happen if I'm dead or imprisoned so, yuck. Did not enjoy typing that one up.
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