I use my simple little command line tool filewatcher to autorun tests. You supply it with file patterns and shell commands to be run when files matching the patterns is updated, added or deleted. It's available via gem install filewatcher. It was a great milestone when most of the code was from other developers pull request.
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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#502https://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…
This is great. I just immediately used it for my nascent blog.
Awesome, let me know if you have any problems with it!
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#503https://www.hireloop.io - Put an end to job appliant overload, with clearer 2-way communication between you (the hiring manager) and your applicants. No more ghosting.
How much are you making out of it?
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#504https://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!
No problem!
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#505https://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…
oh cool! That's way better than trying to be a pixel artist in http://www.favicon.cc/ :D
I solved a similar problem--- I was tired of websites that didn't provide favicons. So I have a chrome extension that hashes the domain and fetches a gravatar icon for it. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/replace-missing-fa...
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#506https://github.com/gregfjohnson/netnode
Netnode. It is a little like a unix pipe, a little like netcat, a little like tcpdump. But really simple.
You create a graph of communicating entities with netnode. The terminal nodes of the graph are external data sources/sinks (user input, udp/tcp servers and clients, shell pipes, named pipes, /dev/tty*, etc.) The internal nodes are a mesh of instances of netnode.
It is easy to insert a little instance of netnode anywhere, and have it print the traffic going through it.
I think it turned out really well, and I use it for everything. It feels like "connective tissue" similar to classic Unix pipes, but for the network age.
./netnode -h
-p/-P: tcp client/server.
-u/-U: udp client/server; client does pings to notify server.
-k: stdin/stdout.
-s: filename. works for /dev/ttyS0 etc., named pipes, regular files.
-X: tcp proxy; local_server:remote_host:remote_port
-w: raw network device interface eth0 etc. (requires sudo.)
-i next interface is input only
-o next interface is output only
-d: next interface is prefaced with time/direction
-t: next interface shows non-printable characters in hex
-b: next interface prints data formatted as hex dumpRe: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#507http://servpaid.com I wanted a simple frontend for Stripe to charge whatever amount. As a web designer and developer this is what I use to get paid, work as a charm.
Are you making money on it?
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#508http://saasful.com Successful. That's what I want for my SaaS developers. Whatever your core product is, it's always going to need - billing integration with Stripe - user authentication (for your customers) - access control (so you can drop in support) You can pull this off (of course!) but do you really want to deal with this portion at all? Wouldn't you rather focus on driving traffic, writing blogs, adding new fe…
I don't downvote but, to speculate on the answer to your question, I think you crossed the line by going into sales pitch mode
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#509https://puphpet.com I started working with VMs several years ago, manually setting up a Virtualbox image. It would take around 30 minutes, and whenever I'd screw something up I'd have to delete it and redo the whole thing. Sometimes I'd fat-finger a command and have to start the process all over again. Once I got tired of that I started to look into Vagrant, which recommended using a tool like Puppet or Chef. That le…
This is awesome! I shall use this from now onwards for my company as well as my personal projects.
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#510Earlier quoted context omitted.
this is really cool. feature suggestions: * range of dates * zip code support cleanup thanks!
Thanks! Range is something I am trying to figure best how to do. I know how, but it is "expensive" in terms of API calls etc. Like would someone pay for this feature? Zipcode - Django has a great library so that is a next step for me.
Can you save the DarkSkye data so you never make the same request twice? Over time, you would have data for all places and all days of the year.