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Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by lelanthran »

A fairly simple proxy for unencrypted HTTP transmissions (although it will proxy any TCP transmission): https://gist.github.com/lelanthran/0ab8830c753dba63bbc1c9851...

Clears any compression format headers so that both parties are forced to communicate in the clear. Generally I have a split terminal with client transmissions scrolling down on the left side and server responses scrolling on the right side.

This is something that I find myself using daily, especially when programming embedded devices that talk to a server (esp32, for example). It's nice to be able to switch to a screen and see all the messages scroll by, especially with esp32-type projects where there really is no good way to figure out what the device didn't like about the response (or in what way the request was mangled so that the server program didn't like it).

I use it on web projects as well, because frankly, the three-finger-salute I have configured for switch screens/desktops is much faster than clicking around in devtools.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by FabbbDev »

rsrihari95 wrote: post #55

If you watch Formula 1 racing, you'll know that the tyre strategy is a core part of the race. Inspired by that, I build a stripped down racing simulation game, over a weekend. It was featured on front page of F1 reddit and got some media coverage as well! Unfortunately it didn't support mobile browser since it was quickly done and that meant a lot of interested folks couldn't play it then. You can play it here - ( ht…

As an avid F1 fan I'm stoked to try this out, thanks for sharing!

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by aster0id »

A utility to share environment variables with others P2P - https://github.com/viraniaman94/sendenv

Had posted it here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39098133

Got a lot more GitHub stars than I had anticipated. Still getting stars here and there.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by johop »

Daily annoyance? Yes! The pre-roll ads on YouTube didn't get blocked anymore by my blockers of trust (Ghostery & uBlock Origin) so I decided to write my very first add-on for Firefox. I've never touched JavaScript or add-ons before - but with the help of ChatGPT I got it working over the weekend [1] and now watch my YouTube videos without any ads. (I also did a version for Chrome, still waiting for approval)

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/pureytv

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by actionfromafar »

ggrelet wrote: post #37
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #3

I installed a vpn on my AppleTV and couldn’t tell if it was actually working/secure. So I created my first ever swift app, for TVOS (AppleTV). The app checks if your vpn is active, and tells you your public ip and geo location on a map (also deployed a small service on fly.io to ping/detect this). Using copilot/chatgtp it was a doddle. Of course Apple refused to put it in the App Store because it doesn’t have enough…

How did you use copilot given that tvOS uses Xcode?

Probably opened a browser tab, started asking questions about how to code the thing. :)

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

bluescrn wrote: post #20

Game jams, when I was younger and had the energy to do a long weekend of coding after a week of work. Ludum Dare was particularly good fun in its early years (early-mid 2000s), when it was a fairly small community, when people were coding from-scratch, before Unity became an option and the event grew into something a lot bigger. Game jam coding is different to 'real' game dev, as the time pressure encurages you to ju…

I had a good run doing LD in the 2010s. Half of all entries were unity last time I was in. The others were mostly unreal or something else. I don't think godot was big yet

I remember the big SPA rework of the website that seemed like overkill. Then a couple people bitched me out for preparing base code, so I stopped. How dare I try to get myself halfway to where the unity devs started, I guess.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by tnolet »

https://github.com/checkly/headless-recorder

- got ~15k GitHub stars.

- AWS copied it.

- We deprecated it as better stuff came on the market with @playwright/test's codegen.

But I did code the initial version in a weekend. Was called Puppeteer Recorder then.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by ronyfadel »

I made TextShot [1] in a weekend. It’s a free utility that allows you to copy text on screen that you otherwise can’t copy (from an image or a video), with a simple key command.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/textshot/id6444068061

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

ggrelet wrote: post #37
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #3

I installed a vpn on my AppleTV and couldn’t tell if it was actually working/secure. So I created my first ever swift app, for TVOS (AppleTV). The app checks if your vpn is active, and tells you your public ip and geo location on a map (also deployed a small service on fly.io to ping/detect this). Using copilot/chatgtp it was a doddle. Of course Apple refused to put it in the App Store because it doesn’t have enough…

How did you use copilot given that tvOS uses Xcode?

Write the code in another text editor and only use xcode to compile?

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by KiranRao0 »

My grandmother's primary method of communication is a cheap Android tablet. It unfortunately includes a preinstalled SMS app that upsells a VoIP SMS service. My grandmother gets extremely frustrated by accidently clicking the message icon and opening an upsell page. There's no way to uninstall the VoIP app.

So instead of giving up and buying a new tablet or paying for an unnecessary service, I hacked together a way to open WhatsApp instead.

https://github.com/Kiran-Rao/openwhatsapp

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