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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by 0x1d »

g4k wrote: post #466
0x1d wrote: post #221

https://instafavicon.com/ I created this favicon generator a few weeks ago to generate minimal favicons for my side projects. I'm not good with design tools so it saves me time when I start a new project and want a simple favicon in ICO format. I'm proud of it because it's server-less. I generate the multi-BMP ICO file in binary using ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays in JavaScript. I use a element to create the images/d…

Just tried it out and the file size is huge (350KB).

Right now I'm adding many different image sizes in the ICO file to cover many types of browsers and devices, but it's probably not a good default. I will expose sizing options or default to fewer sizes in the future.

Thanks for feedback!

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by vram22 »

vram22 wrote: post #303

Well, I wouldn't say "most proud", but here are some I had fun doing: An IBM developerWorks article: Developing a Linux command-line utility (selpg) http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/09/my-ibm-developerworks-arti... It's a tutorial on how to write a Linux command-line utility in C. Was up on the IBM dW site for long; now archived. Got some stars etc. Code and article text now available via (links in) the above post on m…

Forgot to include this point earlier, for anyone who wants to check out PySiteCreator - the current link for the project is here:

https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/pysitecreator

Also: s/There are few posts/There are a few posts/

It was a typo, I'm aware of the difference :)

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by rileyt »

rexpop wrote: post #196
rileyt wrote: post #169

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I have heard talk of this before, it would be great to get an answer from someone who works at Spotify. I wonder if saving the tracks in the playlist and not creating the backup until the next week would get around that? There is no way they are track all plays, saves, playlists, skips for every user over all of time.

No? Tracking all that stuff is trivial. For sure they are tracking plays, I do not see how they couldn't just as easily track saves/skips w/ one log entry.

Sorry, i meant that they arent talking all of that into consideration for each weeks playlist -- im sure they are tracking it.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by nommm-nommm »

0x1d wrote: post #221

https://instafavicon.com/ I created this favicon generator a few weeks ago to generate minimal favicons for my side projects. I'm not good with design tools so it saves me time when I start a new project and want a simple favicon in ICO format. I'm proud of it because it's server-less. I generate the multi-BMP ICO file in binary using ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays in JavaScript. I use a element to create the images/d…

Just used it for a placeholder icon for a new project. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by wkoszek »

jtsai1 wrote: post #179

http://www.ogjobboard.com/ After getting chew out by my last boss regarding scrapping job post off of oil and gas industry. I created this site to practices what I have learn so far on web scraping with c# by using selenium, phantomjs and htmlagilitypack. Its a site where I scraped job posting from major oil companies.

Something doesn't work there. Using Chrome on OSX I'm getting: Server Error in '/' Application. etc.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by lanius »

weaksauce wrote: post #432

Not sure if this warrants inclusion in this list, but I'll share it anyway. I made a simple firefox/chrome extension for people that horde tabs as temp bookmarks. You might find it useful to find tabs and quickly navigate to them by clicking on the link in the list. It's free and open source. The github page has a gif showing usage. You can also type cmd-shift-e or ctrl-shift-e to switch to it. Chrome Extension: http…

Very useful. The only other feature I'd want is the option to display URLs along with the titles.

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Post by averageweather »

detaro wrote: post #265
mrfusion wrote: post #260

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They have a free API that offers that kind of stuff?

not free, but cheap: https://darksky.net/dev/

What he said. Light years cheaper than any similar offering.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by olalonde »

https://github.com/olalonde/deisdash#deis-dash

I made this in a few days to learn React + Redux and it turns out a bunch of people now use it and have personally thanked me for building it. It's a web UI for Deis (an Heroku like PaaS that runs on Kubernetes).

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