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I also created a music player because I dislike the shuffle algorithm in Spotify.
And I have created a travel app for my family to provide public transport route suggestions, offline maps and reminders.
My Postman/Insomnia alternative is open-source for the public now: https://github.com/sunny-chung/hello-http
It's cool I've been using it a couple years now and one of my friends uses it too https://github.com/fsmv/daemon
I was annoyed by Wikipedia's noisy design choices, so I built a very scaled down read-friendly mirror of Wikipedia that presents the text as though it was a book, doing away with inline links. It's desktop-first as I don't really use mobile browsers, my fingers are too big. https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/article/Hacker_News
I like this. How does this work? Is there an api you use to obtain the text from the wiki articles?
>The wikipedia contents are from OpenZIM dumps, which typically lag behind the main Wikipedia project by up to a year.
That being said, while it wouldn't be a good fit for that project, Wikipedia, et al., have a fairly robust API: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API>
https://github.com/sosedoff/pgweb
The app is super simple, made with Go + jQuery and I still use it almost every day, and has brought it to every single company I've been with.
(Paste substitution ciphertext into the textarea on the left.)
Doesn't work so well for actual "cryptograms" because they're too short, but fun for substitution ciphers with longer texts.
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…
Standard, website bad and hard to use but there is a secret json feed of the useful data so hack up an alternative view. ( they have changed its format slightly once so far )
This one is cinema, local cinema ( https://thelight.co.uk/ 5 minute walk) has a monthly membership with unlimited films, but, hard to keep track of whats on time wise. EG planing to watch one film as another one ends, and also hard to tell what is the last showing of a film or even what is on right now.
So simple table view sorted by time.
https://notshi.github.io/dump/ the source is on github but as it is just a single html page with javascript embedded then the source is also the page :)
Kinda nice that it is such a simple hack.