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

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Post by compacct27 »

greenyouse wrote: post #331
compacct27 wrote: post #169

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Oh hey, I’ve been thinking of doing this too. Do you have a repo or anything? I took frontend bugging in a new direction for me as well—decided to add the file name as a prop to every element on the page (in dev only, just takes adding a Babel loader for it). Helps with unfamiliar areas

I guess I deleted the repo by accident when I was cleaning my computer out last year. Here's a very bad version of the repo that basically doesn't do anything. I'll leave it up for a week though if you want to fork it and roll with it. :D https://github.com/greenyouse/sourcemapper

Haha, will roll with it. Thanks!

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Post by dmckeon »

agency wrote: post #388
cheschire wrote: post #280

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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.

Starlink has an app to measure obstruction levels:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starlink/id1537177988

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Post by ree-san »

fumblebee wrote: post #192

I once wrote a script to record the Tinder profiles I swiped left and right on, then fine tuned a CNN using the data and integrated it into an automatic swiper. It swiped right on my now partner!

I find it so interesting that you did this! Have you blogged about what you did? I’d love to read it. On one hand it has viral feel good ending (net current partner) but it also seems like something you’d cool criticism for so I understand if you’d prefer to keep the details on the down low.

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Post by tejtm »

umen wrote: post #377
rolisz wrote: post #356

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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 ?

I have not watched the video but think I may be able to help with the comprehension aspect from reading,

making videos of all sorts of stuff has been normalized

To be less wasteful of your audiences time one edits the video to remove the lowest information content segments.

When you are generating the video you may have some notion the last segment was subpar so you flash a red flag in front of the camera lens and start over, when you think it was good enough you flash a green flag.

For post processing the software scans the video and edits out everything that is not the last interval before a green flag.

I would not be surprised if it could not also recognize quiet periods with low visual activity and optionally edit those out as well.

But as I have not watched the video... I dunno This is the sort of software that could help drag me and kicking & screaming into the current reality of sharing projects ... but really I would still rather someone else did it all.

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Post by weaksauce »

mattkevan wrote: post #364
itsinthenews wrote: post #343

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Nice I like the Etsy Ruby + Jekyll idea. Is the repo open source?

Yes, it's open source. Here's the link [1]. I'm sure there's some sort of rule against posting code this bad on HN, bit worried it'll get my hacker status revoked :). Was a total Ruby n00b when I wrote this (still am) - haven't even worked out how to handle offsets in the Etsy API. Anyway, it does a good job of creating Jekyll collection items from Etsy listings – here's the site I'm building with it, though it's sti…

for what it is and does it's pretty alright... I mean it's a simple script to munge some data and there isn't much more you need to do with it. you don't need fully well thought out full object oriented solution with a bunch of error handling and stuff for a scraper doing 100 records at a time. one nit is that ruby generally doesn't use tabs and only uses 2 spaces.

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Post by mrjivraj »

oezi wrote: post #316
mrjivraj wrote: post #69

Not sure whether this meets your "definition of a tool" but I started tracking my investments publicly a couple of years ago here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tBrZEMFK9XNWxiqOxE8o... The GoogleFinance Function has been a great way to help me "visualize progress" in a very different way compared to default visualizations provided by stock brokers I have also tried to keep track of analytics more manually bu…

Are you updating it as you invest or irregularly? Last investment seems to be from April.

Yeah, I tend to update regularly, usually within a few days unless i am super busy for some reason. But since these are meant to be held for a minimum of three years, so a few day difference doesn't matter much.

The last one is actually from June, not April.

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

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Post by eyelidlessness »

ptaken wrote: post #357
eyelidlessness wrote: post #98

I had a major bike accident, shoulder dislocation that took weeks to recover and broken pinky. I couldn’t type with my left hand, but I couldn’t afford not to work. I looked into one-handed keyboards, found a variety of half-keyboards that mirrored the other half while holding the spacebar. These are patented, and I also couldn’t afford them. Being patented, I was also unable to find software offering the same. So I…

There's also qmk's swap hands feature [1]. Qmk doesn't run on any hardware but if it does the possibilities are pretty much endless. Glad you made it through though and don't need it any more :) [1] https://beta.docs.qmk.fm/using-qmk/software-features/feature...

It’s cool to see this in software now! My little hack was useful enough for me but I didn’t bother taking it any further because I didn’t want to fuss with patents.

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Post by modeless »

themantri wrote: post #394
modeless wrote: post #17

Decoder Ring: https://james.darpinian.com/decoder/ to look up error codes. Started with OpenGL, then added Windows error codes, Linux, HTTP, and Vulkan. I was a bit frustrated always pasting error codes into Google, as it doesn't always come up with the best result. You often have to extract just the code from a larger message, and potentially convert to/from hex or signed/unsigned, e.g. Windows error codes like "-20…

Could you please explain more about how the Decoder ring works? And how it's data is maintained? Thanks for sharing!

It's all client side. The entire database of error messages is downloaded up front and searched in JavaScript. The database is just a JSON file that I put together with some scripts to parse a few header files and other documentation. The whole thing is fewer bytes than a typical news article page these days, so why not download it all up front? I wish more sites worked this way.

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Post by gitgud »

mrek0 wrote: post #373
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

Agreed, that's the entire point of user accounts... to hide sensitive information and restrict access.

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Post by bobblywobbles »

I frequently needed to look up x records by id/name/etc. I knew the values, but needed to format them to work in SQL! I took my list and copied it in a text editor and had to run multiple regex commands to format the list so it could be used in SQL, ie. ('value1', 'value2', 'etc').

I got tired of this and built a VSCode extension: https://github.com/reZach/listtosql

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