http://algebrarules.com It’s simple, useful, and I learned a lot while I was building it. And people use it (which is always a plus).
Love it. You should add example problems.
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#612http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data. EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shut…
Great project. Especially launching from 0. Have you considered adding a Celcius option for us quirky Europeans?
Thank you. After I switch to Google Places Autocomplete, celsius is next.
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#613Earlier quoted context omitted.
> getting remote desktop working is always a bigger pain Easy as cake with TeamViewer
>Screen sharing software was just one more thing to go wrong on their computers. This way, I don't have to worry about whether they have a version with a critical vulnerability, or if they'll fall for a social engineering attack and click on a teamviewer invite.
You can lock down Teamviewer pretty tight, including a whitelist that allows only you to log in.
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#614https://wootboard.com Draw something and share it. Like jsFiddle for drawings. In need of a rewrite and mobile support, but pretty useful if you just want to scribble something down and share it. And I like the borderless canvas :)
Ah ! This is really cool :) Do you mind if I ask what this is built on ?
Thanks. It's just plain JavaScript and some jQuery. It uses SVG so the browser takes on some of the work you'd have to do yourself with canvas, like having the shapes as their own element and detecting mouse events. This also makes it easy to export as SVG (just append .svg to the URL). Server stuff and a small backend runs on minimal PHP and MySQL, no frameworks. The data is stored in a JSON-based format. PNGs are generated from the SVG with ImageMagick. Keyboard shortcuts with jQuery.hotkeys.
Could be more modularized to allow touch input, multiplayer editing, use as a library etc., thus the needed rewrite :>
The endgame for this could be something like https://www.figma.com. They have collaborative editing, use canvas to completely do their own thing for graphics and React+Redux for the interface. Quite amazing.
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#615rsync.net. I am very, very proud of the (very simple) platform that we've built there. It's a basic tool that "just works" - and just works exactly like you'd expect it to . If I were a consumer of cloud storage, this is what I would want it to look like. It pleases me so greatly to know that, right now, someone is doing something like this: pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump" ... while simult…
Can I use rsync.net to backup my (selected) laptop files to my local-network linux server? (I'm currently doing this with CrashPlan but I don't like that the backup destination has the files in some proprietary format).
If so, I would love to be a customer.
Thanks!
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#616A simple wordsearch tool for scrabble players that I wrote twice:
updawg [https://github.com/martindemello/updawg] had the distinction of being the only wordsearch tool on the nokia n900. featurewise, it was a clone of lexpert, a popular app that ran on a few other mobile platforms. it was a vala/gtk/hildon wrapper around some open source wordsearch code, and it all just worked. the nice thing was after i wrote i for my own use, another scrabbler bought an n900 and was delighted to find she could get a wordsearch app for it.
varix [https://github.com/martindemello/varix] is my from-scratch rewrite of the same thing in ocaml, with more powerful searches. it's a linux TUI app so i haven't really tried to interest anyone else in using it, but i use it all the time and i love it.
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#617Right now, https://fromscratch.rocks a smart and simple autosaving note taking application. It's a rectangle you can type into, and if you use it like that, that's all it is. But if you want more, you can use note-folding, a whole bunch of text manipulation changes and best of all, it's automatically written to disk (no saving needed ever) in a real text file, so syncing and backup is really simple.
Super neat, but all the download links on the site are dead (tag name missing 'v' in 'v1.2.0'). I was gonna' submit a PR, but it doesn't seem to be managed via a public repo.
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#618http://algebrarules.com It’s simple, useful, and I learned a lot while I was building it. And people use it (which is always a plus).
Love it. You should add example problems.
Thanks :) That’s a good idea — each rule has real-number examples, but there’s nothing to solve. It would be fun to add test problems to use the rule on.
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#619readthedocs.org -- A site that automatically builds documentation for you when you commit to your VCS repo. It's been widely used in the Python ecosystem for a few years now, and started off as a 48 hour hack day project.
Having just recently listened to the Talk Python to Me (yesterday) and Import This (today) episodes with you, thank you so much for everything. Read the Docs is a truly amazing resource.
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#620http://www.beelinereader.com Helps people read more easily on-screen. Originally designed as a speed-reading tool for lifehack types, but it turns out to also be super effective as an assistive technology for people with dyslexia, vision impairments, and executive function disorders.
This looks really great. Can it be used in chrome on android?