Infinite clipboard history. Want to remember something? just copy to clipboard. I compress the logs yearly.
That sounds cool. Any chance you'll release that?
Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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#562I've been making a VR game Rogue Stargun (https://roguestargun.com) for 3 years on the side.
I don't work in VR or gamedev, but I do enjoy making models in blender. I was able to model roughly half the assets in the game and set up an elevenlabs.io integration in unity for AI voice generation.
It's almost exclusively been for my own entertainment, but I hope to get a beta release out by Christmas.
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#564I wanted a better dashboard for my Tesla solar/battery system:
https://www.netzeroapp.io/
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#565https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn 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 Abenteuergruet…
> custom setups break and aren't portable But this is a custom setup that's not portable? And how is it less tedious to have to select previously typed text all the time? Is it mainly better because then you don't need to do anything on individual chars, but do it in a batch?
> But this is a custom setup that's not portable?
Caught me.
> And how is it less tedious to have to select previously typed text all the time?
This is tedious, but I have that automated (AutoHotKey). So a single, AHK-managed hotkey does the equivalent of:
CTRL + SHIFT + HOME
CTRL + C
feed into tool, paste back
CTRL + V
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#566I built a website for box breathing: https://box-breathing.com It is basically a timer for your breathing exercises, as the idea is that you inhale and exhale slowly, hold your breath in between, each step lasting 4 seconds. I tried to make it as simple as possible, and to make it usable with old devices as well.
I'd add a couple of guides to mark the limits of expansion/contraction. Inhaling - https://i.imgur.com/t38mmax.png Exhaling - https://i.imgur.com/ZZ4SFXd.png If they gently fade-in when the movement starts, it shouldn't take away from the experience.
Thanks! I tried, but I have not yet found a way to make such guides unobtrusive. I will try out your suggestion. It is very motivating to see that people care about my little side project so much that they post a comment. So, thank you, made my day!
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#567Being a programmer, I created a todo list in the form of a text editor. Many, many shortcuts: links to files, outlook folders, azure, shortcuts, connection to the company VPN, basic text formatting. 6 months of excited coding. It looks great. I honestly don't know what I would do without him.
Some integration with tampermonkey and I have authentication on all the sites I use. Data is stored in pure files, indexed by sqllite.
My notes are typing-free. Images are turned into links and stored locally.
Dates are identified and placed on a calendar.
Desktop, made in C#, practical to the maximum.
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#568Slightly ashamed to admit that I built an online exam cheating tool using pytesseract/tkinter/ChatGPT and ShareX. I won't go into complete detail but it works like this. -> Define area to be screenshotted using ShareX -> Set ShareX auto-capture feature to screenshot defined area every 30sec (in my case, the area where the question and answer choices will be) -> Using pytesseract, parse the image and retrieve the pars…
I think it's hilarious that anyone smart & hardworking enough to build a tool this neat would bother cheating on an exam in the first place, haha.
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#569"pw" a simple perl script that prints a random password. default length is 16 chars but if I do "pw 8" it will return an 8 char password
I use it all the time, at least a few times a week.
I wrote it because the secure passwords generated by iOS and various password managers are overkill for most purposes and extremely hard to type out by hand to an airgapped destination
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#570A personal journaling web app that records my voice, sends it to a speech-to-text API, then sends that text to ChatGPT to rewrite it in a style of my choice (bulleted list, casual, professional, etc). Then saves that as a markdown file for viewing in the same web app. Pretty easy to make and I really like journaling with my voice.