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Post by lloydatkinson »

ceritium wrote: post #140

I did several small projects for me and my family: - https://consumebefore.jose.gr/ to keep track of when the food expires once opened - https://markdowntable.jose.gr/ generates markdown tables with a link to edit the table - https://mazes.jose.gr is a simple maze generator. It never got traction inside my family, so I didn't invest much time in adding features. - https://bookmarklet.jose.gr/ a bookmarklet generator…

I really like the maze one. How are you generating the PDF (and upscaling the maze) client side? I started working on a word search puzzle generator and was wondering how I was going to deal with the printing part.

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Post by leephillips »

hexomancer wrote: post #24

Sioyek: a PDF viewer optimized for reading research papers and textbooks. https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek It has a lot of niche features, but my favorite is the ability to preview or jump to references even when they are not linked in the PDF file.

I use it every day. Thank you for creating Sioyek.

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Post by eloisius »

A half-backed GUI app to learn writing Chinese characters.

When I was in Chinese class I developed a pencil and paper system that enabled me to memorize writing about 10 words per day. It's simple: I should be able to write a single word in about 15 seconds. I usually memorized a 20-word list at once. Set a timer for 15 sec * len(words) and speed through it looking at a list of definitions/pronunciation. Pencil down when the timer goes off. Grade harshly, a single mistake means the word is wrong. As I'm grading I rewrite each word I got wrong. Then drill again with the list of words that I got wrong again. Repeat until no words are left. Occasionally restart with the entire list.

I wrote it in Python using PyQt6 and standardizing on importing Pleco flashcard CSVs since many of them are readily available for most textbooks. I have lots of ideas and little time to improve it, but it is useful already.

https://git.sr.ht/~zacstewart/renzi

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Post by andreasscherman »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #420
andreasscherman wrote: post #402

Many of them! I've blocked reddit and now rely on getting the top updates from the niche communities I care about: https://redditletter.com There were no "declarative" sourdough bread recipe calculator, so I built one: https://breadfriend.com . All other recipe generators are based on entering the amount of flour and water -- but what you're (usually) caring about is the ratio % and total dough size. I was curious wh…

Reddit letter looks cool but only seems to allow one category

thanks! yes, if you want to have multiple categories, you'll have to click the "advanced" button which allows you to pick multiple individual subreddits from a category into a single newsletter.

it's a good idea to allow multiple categories directly though, but thought i'd keep it simple!

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Post by maximus-decimus »

mgirkins wrote: post #373

Like every programmer before me, I created a to-do list app of course! However, as a programmer, I prefer trees to lists so I made a to-do tree app. I have been using it religiously every day since to manage all aspects of my life in a way that I couldn't previously with tools like Wunderlist (RIP) or didn't have the time to make work in this way like Notion. Shockingly there aren't many other options out there for t…

I'm tempted to do something like that in Go.

I don't feel like I need a tree-based to do app for my personal stuff, but I just plain don't understand how people are okay with the feature->story->task list on Azure Devops. This clearly needs to be a task tree/graph!

What I feel all those apps are missing though is dependencies. like "I can't do task E until I do C and D and those other trees". Technically Task Warrior does that, but then it shows them as a flat list... My dream app would be one that combines dependency tracking and tree-based tasks.

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Post by eptcyka »

midgetjones wrote: post #120

A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn't always update the website regularly, and we'd find that any suitable cats would be snapped up before we'd even seen them. I spotted that the website served its data to the frontend via an unsecured internal JSON API, so I built an Elixir app that would poll the API endpoint…

My 3rd hand experience with animal shelters in the UK was that the more appealing animals were announced privately to friends and family of people running shelters before they'd be put up on for the public to adopt.

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Post by mihemihe »

I usually have to commit large changes in Active Directory in production environments, to accommodate merges, splits or acquisitions. I created a tool to monitor in real time the changes happening in AD so I can see if there is anything wrong or unexpected happening. For that I created this tool for personal use and I open sourced it:

https://github.com/mihemihe/myADMonitor

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