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

#601
post #5

https://typed.pw - Simple way to write online.

How do you keep it out of spam?

I want it to be spammed. I was creating another site which accepted user input and the problem was: how do I avoid spam? I searched online and found some simple and clever solutions. Typed is a way to test these solutions and a way to come with new ones.

This is not the only reason typed exists obviously...

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

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post #116

https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…

Is it weird that I'm quite interested to final out how many "messages to contacts" have been sent out so far? :P

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

#607

It's not totally unique, but I made a simple tool I call "watch" that runs terminal commands on file save. You specify a file glob and a command and it runs the command whenever a globed file changes. Also has a few handy flags. I use it ever day to automate my file save->compile->run workflow. It's amazing how much time you save by never having to up-arrow/enter a terminal after every save. Been meaning to update it…

For a brief moment I thought you wrote the Unix utility watch. Cool project anyway!

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

#609

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google has a similar feature to give trusted people access to your data if you've been inactive for a given amount of time (so probably dead): https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive

Is it safe to put my 1Password's master-password into the message that is sent in case I'm dead?

I'd say no. I find an offline alternative to this.

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

#610
https://steam.dance/

I've been poking at this for 4 or 5 years now. It started as a simple simplified air pressure simulator for teaching logic programming. But now you can make all sorts of stuff with it, like logic gates, adders and I'm working on a replica 4004. (Links below)

The website is awful for new users - It doesn't work on mobile, there's no tutorial and no real documentation on how to use the editor. Instead of fixing that I'm working on making a dedicated puzzle game built around the engine to teach all the concepts up to and including getting players to build their own CPUs.

The backend is powered by a FRP compiler, which I'm really happy with. You can have huge steam powered worlds and incrementally edit parts of them, and it does fancy incremental recompilation.

Logic gates: https://steam.dance/nornagon/logic

2 full adders: https://steam.dance/josephg/adder

Miniaturised 8 bit ALU: https://steam.dance/josephg/alu

Work in progress CPU: https://steam.dance/josephg/4004_4

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