- A simple php script that emails me daily asking "what did you do yesterday" and logs my replies (using Mailgun's free threshold). I've now had a diary for 10 years.
- A simple php script to log the dates of mp3's I add to a certain folder, which helps me organize my monthly radio show (So I'm sure I play the new music I get).
- A WordPress install to store recipes I like.
- A small browse extension + php api to catalog social accounts I visit often. I often mention the same people in my twitter, facebook, instagram posts (I review their music), so I don't have to look up their multiple accounts every time.
Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
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Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
#422I 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!
That’s awesome, is the source available?
Why release the code when they can fine-tune it and make money off other people looking for love on Tinder?
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#423About 18 months ago I started using Letterboxd. Also, I like Roger Ebert's reviews. I wanted both in one place. So I wrote some code to scrape his nearly 8000 reviews from rogerebert.com and then import them to letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/re2/ (I only put the first two paragraphs of his review on letterboxd then link to his full review on his site.) The hard parts of this were: - Extracting the text of his rev…
ohh so random that this was you!!, i've been following the roger user for a long time
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#424I have a small YT channel [1] and I used to spend 30-40 mins recording and then 2-4 hrs editing to get a final 10-15 min video. Then I fully scripted my video editing using Python+MoviePy [2]. The time savings are sweet. I just feed it my raw video and get the finished video a few minutes later. It cuts out all the dead air as well as the parts I don't want (which I indicate in-video). In general scripting video edit…
I personally know a few people who could very likely be your customer,so I second other commenter: do release it as a product.
While I completely relate to the sentiment and, I'd say, similar to the usual HN crowd find products to be a goal, I've personally lost complete interest and even develop resentment/hate toward personal projects the moment I tried to make them into a product.
I think the huge shift that happens from "this project is fun/useful for myself" to "I need to integrate payment/multi-user/backups/uptime/user requested features/random uses of the product that I never thought of" is wildly underestimated!
But, that's just me, after killing more than a few projects that I enjoyed by trying to make them products...
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#425I 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
why use OS-provided functionality when you can write you own? :P
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#426I have recently developed my own terminal-based UI for todo/task tracking [1] in markdown files because I was sick of rearranging todos in other tools. The main advantage is that you can "migrate" all unfinished todos to a new page/day and thus get a clean start each day. This idea comes from bullet journalling. To get it done I had to dig a bit into ncurses, which turned out more interesting than I thought. For inst…
I'm also learning curses but went the LuaJIT ffi way and it's been a blast!
LuaJIT ffi allows me to load the ncurses shared library and use straight C to call whatever ncurses functions I want, or write light lua wrappers. I've been breaking my head thought over separation of concerns, coded myself in a corner a few times already but mixing the UI with the data...
Re: Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
#427I wrote a script that would build a list of printer brands and their corresponding toners.
https://github.com/kurcz/PrinterTonerDB
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#428Romylms.com - I hated training people in the same material over and over. Now I train once and record it and send all future people to watch that recording and take a quiz. 100+ courses now.
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#429I don't make tools I write rubbish scripts that do my job for me. My job involves filling crappy designed forms on worse designed systems that seem to be designed for maximum clicks and slowness.
I'm not allowed to install anything so thank god for autohotkey!
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#430http://hndeck.sawirstudio.com viewing HN side by side