Ask HN: Tools you have built for yourself?
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#42https://github.com/openshiporg/openship
Built it to automate my e-commerce ops
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#43I built a CDC utility that reads from postgres and automatically syncs incremental table snapshots to BigQuery.
https://github.com/loicalleyne/leftshove
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#44I work in a large monolith that doesn't always have the package and code separation that I'd like. I built PackageMap to help me visualise the codebase, and see where the natural seams were -- or should be. https://packagemap.co I use the tool to build a directed graph of the type and method usages, and to see which code is grouped into which packages. The code is rendered in a graph diagram that I can see, query, an…
This looks very useful! I'm gonna try to give this a shot some time this week.
I'd be very keen to hear your feedback if you do manage to give it a go.
You can mail me hello@ .co
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#45Re: Ask HN: Tools you have built for yourself?
#46Back in my Applescript days I wrote a number of small apps to remove various repetitive burdens (most have been lost to the ages), then carried on to Objective-C and shell scripting. • "BatchPrint" : Standalone Applescript app with GUI front-end; allowed a designer to perform a query-based batch print of InDesign files. For example, "print all color ads running in tomorrow's New York Post to the 4th floor large-forma…
> Nuke the Metadata I have the same type of script, but very specific to file types and not just a general "remove all metadata from the input file". I assume yours works the same way? How many file types can you use this on and how?
No, mine's quite brain-dead. I'm sure yours does a better job on specific file types, and I'm sure there's stuff I'm not getting, now that I think about it. But I've downloaded the images (for example) that I uploaded post-nuke and didn't see any obvious references to me or my organization. A more robust nuker might make for a nice project in my coming off-time (post layoff).