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

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Post by cperciva »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #472
cperciva wrote: post #438

The simple tool I'm most proud of is spiped. If you have two systems which need to be able to talk over TCP without worrying about evilness on the network between them, spiped is the answer. The simple tool which has probably had the largest impact is bsdiff -- now found used in hundreds of millions of devices -- but I'm not particularly proud of it because it was a quick hack and horrible code written by a C novice.…

> The simple tool which has probably had the largest impact is bsdiff -- now found used in hundreds of millions of devices In your thesis, you mention an updated algorithm that produces smaller patches. Do you have any code available that implements that algorithm?

Some of that, and some further improvements, made their way into https://github.com/cperciva/bsdiff . But I don't think anyone is using that new code; the company which was paying for me to work on it decided not to continue with that project before I had a chance to finish polishing the work.

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

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Post by thelambentonion »

0xCMP wrote: post #172
munchor wrote: post #29

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I have been using this for years and all my work colleagues always ask me "what is that nyan cat on your text editor? that must be super annoying!" and I always have to tell them I just really like it. Thank you for building this, it's awesome!

Same! But sadly when I switched to Spacemacs I haven't set it up again.

https://github.com/TheBB/spaceline/blob/master/README.org

Scroll down for nyan mode, if you don't mind using an external package. :)

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

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Post by Declanomous »

jjawssd wrote: post #459
Declanomous wrote: post #439

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Yeah, I've used it at times. It's great when it works, but getting remote desktop working is always a bigger pain than just trying to explain the problem over the phone. The individual issues aren't that big, but it means a 20 minute phone call turns in to a 1 hour phone call because we spend 20 minutes trying to get screen sharing working. For one thing, I'm generally away from my computer when they call me, and all…

> getting remote desktop working is always a bigger pain Easy as cake with TeamViewer

>Screen sharing software was just one more thing to go wrong on their computers. This way, I don't have to worry about whether they have a version with a critical vulnerability, or if they'll fall for a social engineering attack and click on a teamviewer invite.

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

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Post by kingkool68 »

wkoszek wrote: post #478
kingkool68 wrote: post #9

https://dummyimage.com

So taking your project as an example, and having Carbon Ads, how much $$$ do you get out of them?

I don't pay attention to it and I can't for the life of me figure out how much it earns monthly but there is over $800 in my account. My hunch is $10-$15 a month or so.

I just moved it to a cheaper hosting plan so it's actually turning a minuscule profit now.

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

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Post by mbrookes »

git-pull-request - CLI tool for insanely easy check out of contributor PRs from github:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/git-pull-request

Code is hacky, but hey, 350 downloads a month for something I threw together, and have never promoted...

Proud? Not really, but thought someone here might find it useful.

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

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Post by pascalxus »

I've always felt that an entrepreneur's toughest job is to find just the right prospects and leads for their new business. So, I created a tool to helps people find highly targeted leads and prospects. You can target users based on location, # of followers, twitter bio, and 7 other filters too. Give it shot:

https://www.find70.com/?t=hnews

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

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Post by tgb »

lavrton wrote: post #354

I have two small kids (2 and 5) and I am travaling a lot with my family around the world. I found out that it can be hard to find a good place to spend some time with kids. So I build a simple tool that helps me to find such places. https://www.gowithkid.com/ This tool already helped me a lot.

I added two suggestions for my city, since I only saw parks listed. Great idea! The interface to add things is a little clunky. Most places being added are already listed on the base map, so being able to select something from there as the base recommendation would be great, then just add a few notes on the kid-related aspects. Also I wanted to be able to add a picture from the location's website instead of downloading and then uploading it.

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

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Post by nommm-nommm »

averageweather wrote: post #124
lpasselin wrote: post #122

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Nice website! Some urls are weird though. You have a trailing / somewhere I guess. http://www.averageweather.io/averages//Tokyo/11/15/

Thanks ... I've been seeing those on google analytics ...

Support for entering postal codes would be really nice. :)

Also it would be nice to per-populate the date field to today's date.

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

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

cperciva wrote: post #470
vitorbaptistaa wrote: post #158

https://shellshare.net I have migrated my wife's (then girlfriend) computer to Linux and sometimes I had to configure something on her computer (e.g. a printer). This ended up generating lots of back and forth on the phone with me telling her commands to write in the terminal, and she reading the output out loud. I wanted an easy way to see her terminal. So shellshare was born. Shellshare allows you to run a single c…

wget -qO shellshare http://get.shellshare.net && python shellshare Please don't tell people to do this. This is an idiom called "curl pipe sh"; you're asking people to run whatever code someone on their network decides to send them. As an absolute minimum, you should change that http to https , so that they're merely running whatever code YOU decide to send them; but even that doesn't quite fit with the "share your t…

I agree with the HTTPS part, but aside from that I can't really see how it's less safe than saying "here, install this .deb (which gets to run scripts as root) and then run the binary inside".
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