Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by xcubic » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 9:21 PM UTC

csbartus wrote: post #440

xcubic wrote: post #436

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you give more details regarding 2?

Sections of the article / book are code modules. They are imported and displayed as text and as graphviz nodes / node groups. At the end I see a graph associated to a long text making sure I’ve covered all ideas and their relationships. https://imgur.com/a/dEeoF1m

You should open source one of those, or at least an example. I think it seems an interesting idea to explore: treating text as code.

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

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Post by cheschire » Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 10:19 PM UTC

agency wrote: post #388

cheschire wrote: post #280

Earlier 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.

Saw this today and thought of you stranger.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/o1zgt2/starlink_di...

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

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Post by ssd » Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 11:50 AM UTC

I spent untold number of hours in my doctors waiting room watching Judge Judy, so I built this app which could tell me where I am in the queue, so I can go out sit in a cafe. https://youtu.be/RZ6vnLXtIcY I tried to sell this to my doctor but he didnt buy it. If anyone has any use for it, let me know.

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

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Post by lirantal » Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 11:54 AM UTC

I built dockly - https://github.com/lirantal/dockly

An immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers to help me do that from the command line

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

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Post by rodjomatic » Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 3:05 PM UTC

thescriptninja wrote: post #47

Wrote a VS Code extension to solve a very minor inconvenience. All it does is that it adds a shortcut to add the current date. Needed this as I use VS Code for journals, notes. Midway, I found another tool that already did the same, but was too excited to build my first extension, so did it anyways :) https://github.com/parth-paradkar/ClipDate

You should check out Autohotkey. The advantage of AHK over what you have done in VSCode is that your shortcut will be available globally, not just in VSCode.

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

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Post by lucasfdacunha » Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 3:51 PM UTC

pietre wrote: post #168

Tool to generate a random order of a popular food delivery service in The Netherlands. Wanted to discover new local restaurants instead of eating the same 3 things always. http://thuisbezorgdroulette.nl/

Do you have a chance to review what is being ordered? How do you make sure you're getting enough food or not too much food?

Some restaurantes like sushi for example have items that are just a couple of things and that would not be enough for a full meal for example.

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

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Post by tonixx » Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 3:52 PM UTC

I buy and sell sites and I often need to leave my email in forums and public groups, so I've created a simple site that allows you to create a contact link which you can use anywhere and you'll be protected from spam

Here it is: https://contact.do

If you want to see it in action, here's my contact link: https://contact.do/toni

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

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Post by xk3 » Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 8:08 PM UTC

I like traveling but I always feel like I do it inefficiently or I skip out on smaller towns because Google doesn't show them unless you zoom in far enough so I built this

https://unli.xyz/city/calc/

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

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Post by saddington » Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 6:56 AM UTC

i built yen.chat so that i didn't have to pay for slack... i use it for internal communication with my team as we build a b2b saas tool.

i hate slack.

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

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Post by jcubic » Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 10:10 PM UTC

I've created Python Script for adding GPS coordinates to my photos. First version was using Google Takeout JSON file. Then later I've added Android App support (GPS Logger) and recently I've added support for hardware GPS watch that I've purchased on AliExpress. The code was little bit of a mess, I've improved it a bit after someone asked if can see the code. I've also added a License and README.

* https://github.com/jcubic/gps.py

I've also once wrote a tool that downloaded files from shared hosting sites. It was long ago when RapidShare was main site of this type. It was working with all the sites that was available back then and it was waiting before download the file. It was before captcha was invented. I was using router and dynamic IP and I've even added a function that was disconnecting/connecting the router to change IP when download the files.

The code is in Ruby and on GitHub I think this was one of my first project there https://github.com/jcubic/Downloader