I wrote git-genie to automate commit message writing with GPT & pre-commit hooks, works surprisingly well (most of the time) - https://github.com/danthelion/git-genie
Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#602I've created a Mac OS app that shows a progress bar 5 pixels tall and 100% the with of the screen when complete, it's always on top of any window. It's a menu bar app, so you click on the icon and there are a few options. - You can choose how long will take for the bar to complete, 1, 5, 10... ( I have hardcoded all minutes in intervals of 5 minutes up to 1h :D ). - Choose a color. - Choose the sound it will make at…
This sounds interesting too from a calm technology perspective (at least as far as I understand the concept). I often run into the problem of not realizing when I'm close to being out of time and having a less-intrusive way of quickly seeing when I should be getting close to done would help me prioritize how I'm thinking/working.
@alfonsodev, do you have a link to a repo or something where someone could download this?
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#603I wrote a chrome extension to do site specific browser automation that quickly adds grocery coupons and credit card rewards categories after watching my mom spend hours clicking to add each one individually. Free on the chrome store. https://www.throwlasso.com
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#604substrackr.com - track subscriptions
xpensetrackr.com - track expenses
https://fullcalendar-test.vercel.app/ - minimal journal to log my exercises
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#6051. I made a nice unixy clipboard manager for linux.
https://github.com/porridgewithraisins/coffee-pesto
Should get around to publishing it to the aur, but haven't yet.
It has support for all types of data, and you can put any custom information you want programmatically into the search index for the search feature. By default you can search by content, application name or datetime. Has a gui in gtk, but it's pretty modular so you can write your own simple rofi script for it if you wanted. It just stores stuff in a single folder so you can sync it by syncing the folder.
2. I made a simple tool that turns markdown into html+css in the exact way github does it with darkmode and everything. It uses the github web api to convert the markdown, and then uses the exact css as well (courtesy sindre sorhus' package)
https://github.com/porridgewithraisins/scripts/blob/master/g...
3. I made a simple colorpicker using gtk that copies the color to clipboard directly. https://github.com/porridgewithraisins/scripts/blob/master/c...
4. I made a GUI image batch resizing script that uses yad for the gui and imagemagick for the resizing internally. It is designed to be used as a thunar/other file manager custom action. But of course it works it you just pass all the filenames in args.
https://github.com/porridgewithraisins/scripts/blob/master/r...
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#606substrackr.com - track subscriptions xpensetrackr.com - track expenses https://fullcalendar-test.vercel.app/ - minimal journal to log my exercises
oh, and https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/red-border-chrome-e... - to see where the borders are around HTML DOM elements (helps with front-end code)
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#607Tool for easily transferring files between my devices. https://filepush.kevincox.ca/. Blog post about the implementation: https://kevincox.ca/2022/11/02/decentralized-via-webpush/
RSS-to-Email service https://feedmail.org/
Tool for identifying grids in D&D map images https://gridfinder.kevincox.ca/
A solver for the Ricochet Robots board game https://ricochetrobots.kevincox.ca/
A tool for quickly picking a first player when playing board games: https://playerone.kevincox.ca/
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#608A few years ago, I made a Telegram bot that I use daily to remind myself things I have to do: https://t.me/remembr_bot
You basically send it a message that says : "Pay water bill in two days at 9am", and it will send you a notification that says "Pay water bill" in two days, at 9am. You can also easily snooze notifications using handy quick-actions buttons.
It's free btw, anybody can use it.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#609I built a Chess app called SpicyChess(https://spicychess.com) that has a training component which leverages spaced repetition and strict time constraint to increase your pattern recognition ability for tactical motifs. SpicyChess also allows you to "bookmark" a puzzle for review later on. The philosophy behind the training regiment is inspired by the following two books which have been very helpful in improving my game: reading Rapid Chess Improvement, The Woodpecker Method.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#610A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn't always update the website regularly, and we'd find that any suitable cats would be snapped up before we'd even seen them. I spotted that the website served its data to the frontend via an unsecured internal JSON API, so I built an Elixir app that would poll the API endpoint…
Great example of a pet project :)
Made me paws and chuckle!