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I got fed up with using loads of different apps to keep track of my flights while doing long term traveling trips so made a simple site to track them using the AirLabs free API. GitHub: https://github.com/PaulSinghDev/personal-flight-tracker Public site: https://personal-flight-tracker.vercel.app/no-key
https://github.com/Leggin/dirigera
I use it for controlling my home via a telegram bot and logging climate data to a database for interesting plots.
Another bunch takes care of creating invoices, gathering bank statements, and paying using the bank account.
Finally, a temperature limiting daemon because thermald doesn't seem to work.
* Small util on an ESP32 to turn my garage lights on when I open the side door.
* An app to track players I've played against before in Dota2 and pop up before a match so I can skip matches with players who I've found to be toxic.
It grew out of a niche, almost historical need: using a QWERTY keyboard, but needing access to German Umlauts (ä, ö, ü, as well as ß). Switching keyboard layouts is possible but exhausting (it's much more pleasant sticking to one); using modifier keys is similarly tedious, and custom setups break and aren't portable.
So this tool can do:
$ echo 'Gruess Gott, Poeten und Abenteuergruetze!' | srgn --german
Grüß Gott, Poeten und Abenteuergrütze!
A niche need I haven't yet come across someone else having as well! (just the amount of text explaining what it's all about is saying a lot in terms of specificity...)
The tool now grew into a tree-sitter based (== language grammar-aware) text manipulation thing, mostly for fun. The bizarre German core is still there however.
[0]: https://github.com/alexpovel/betterletter/blob/c19245bf90589...
I've built it about 10 years ago for myself because I was too lazy to get up from the couch to control my media PC and the existing apps were all terrible to use. Turns out many people found good use for it, over 10 million across platforms by now.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steppschuh...
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For retirement calculators monte carlo simulations seem like the best way to model risk, but all existing implementations are several orders of magnitude slower than they should be. I made https://james.darpinian.com/money/ to prove that it's possible to simulate a million scenarios in a few milliseconds. You can drag sliders and see simulation results update in real time. Even on phones. Because I made it for my own…
That's cool! I'm planning to add Monte Carlo simulations into my app.
The project is on hold though, after the wife complained about it being a time sink.