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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

#611
I got into programming when I was 14 because I wanted to write addons (in Lua) for World of Warcraft. I've written many things since then (including addons -- my personal Lua repo has around 145k lines of code).

I did make one app public last year: AutoPTT [1]. It's a Windows desktop app that gives you advanced control on how your mic activates and deactivates in voice chat. It's written in C. I'd used it as a CLI for a long time myself but then a few others asked if they could use it too, so I added a GUI and released it.

At the moment, I'm working on a desktop image/comic viewer (in Rust, of course :) because I'm not happy with CDisplayEx.

[1] https://autoptt.com/

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Recently I have started started working on an offline Traditional Taiwanese Mandarin Chinese dictionary software for the desktop. I have been studying Taiwanese Mandarin Chinese for a few years now, two years of those in Taiwan at a language center and it has always bugged me that most Chinese dictionary software is 1. mainly focused on Simplified Chinese as it is spoken in Mainland China and Traditional Chinese/the…

> mainly focused on Simplified Chinese as it is spoken in Mainland China > and Traditional Chinese/the Taiwanese variant is just an afterthought > only has Chinese to English, but no monolingual definitions which are preferable for advanced learners I don't quite get it. You can distinguish "Mandarin Chinese as spoken in China" from "Mandarin Chinese as spoken in Taiwan"; for example, the concept "the day after [a co…

Thank you for your thoughtful feedback on my project! Your comments have prompted me to reflect on various aspects of my project, and I appreciate the opportunity to address them.

It's possible that my initial communication may have led to some confusion or misinterpretation of my project goals. I acknowledge that there may have been a lack of clarity in my description. Additionally, I recognize that some of my project goals may require rephrasing to better convey their intent.

Regarding the distinction between Mandarin Chinese as spoken in Taiwan and on the mainland, while I understand that mutual intelligibility is high, I believe there is value in catering to learners who have a specific interest in the Taiwanese variant. This isn't meant to create a division but rather to provide a resource for those who find exploring these distinctions enriching.

Regarding the choice between Pinyin and Zhuyin, I've opted for Zhuyin in my project to align with the phonetic system used in Taiwan. While both systems are valid, some learners may find it more beneficial when immersing themselves in the local language environment.

In light of your feedback, I realize that my project's goals and intentions may not have been as clear as I had hoped. I'm aware that there is room for improvement in my communication skills, and I'm committed to refining my project description to better convey its purpose and objectives.

I want to emphasize that my project is a reflection of my personal language learning journey and preferences. It is designed to cater to my specific needs, and I'm sharing it with the community in case there are others who share similar interests and goals.

I'm genuinely thankful for your input, and I'm open to further suggestions, insights, or clarifications you may have. Constructive discussions like these are invaluable in helping me improve both my project and my communication skills.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

#613

I have something of an obsession with being able to search my digital history. To this end I've created a few projects which I still use almost daily: - full text tabs forever [1]: chrome extension to provide full text search over web pages I've visited - browser-gopher [2] (formerly browser parrot): collect browsing history from all browsers - prompta [3]: a ChatGPT UI with full text search and some other niceties […

I really love full text tabs forever, but as another commenter noted, it’d be good if it was open sourced to make sure it’s not sending the data to the devil. Thanks for sharing!

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A 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…

Black cats are the best. Our last one was like a dog more than cat but also liked to sit on my Mac's keyboard :)

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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A 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…

Kind of similar, in the early days of COVID, I accidentally discovered that my state's website would have test results available several hours before they sent out the "view your results" email. So I made a script that would check the site every five or ten minutes and then ping me as soon as the result changed to something besides PENDING.

In the course of that I stumbled on https://ntfy.sh/ which solved the notification problem without needing Twitter, and I've used it since then to let me know when long-running scripts complete.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

#616
Nice question! Let's see...

CLI - TOTP/2FA tool with fuzzy search - A script on top of timetrap, to type a number and change your current activity (emulating a Timeflip) - A simple view of % of time spent for each activity - A few scripts on Python, PHP or Go to automate stuff at work

CLI/Web - http://gemugami.com/week/ Get the current ISO week

Web - A site to ask people of their preferred time for a meeting, trying to find one working for all (quite difficult :) - https://eapl.mx/price/ Compare price and sizes/weights of 2 products to know which one is 'more' convenient - https://eapl.mx/twtxt/ A public view of my twtxt microblogging, and a single-user admin view - http://gemugami.com/time/ Get your browser's timezone

Not tools, but quite interesting - http://gemugami.com/hexclock/ An hexadecimal clock - http://gemugami.com/clock/ A decimal clock ('hours' from 0 to 1000) - http://gemugami.com/kcolc/ Time goes in reverse from 24h to 0 - http://gemugami.com/solar/ Shifts the time to be 7am at sunrise, based on your location - http://gemugami.com/holmes/ A scoring app for a board game

And a bunch of game prototypes, mostly to learn new stuff and game design

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

#617
post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the "same-segment-repeat" check across multiple episodes? Or just a single episode has the same segment repeated a few twice, so it works for this specific network?

The current implementation searches only within a single episode. Searching across multiple episodes could be done but would introduce false positives if a show re-uses intro music or other assets, and personally I’d prefer to keep that stuff, so I’d need to figure out heuristics to differentiate it from ads.

Some interview podcasts start with a 3-4 second clip from the interview. Does this cause false positives for you?

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

#619
TLDR: https://github.com/ja-he/dayplan is a TUI calendar planning/time tracking tool I made.

Early in my University time I always felt most productive when sketching out my day in Google calendar, then keeping up with that plan and if necessary, adjusting it. For a long time I was envisioning something that would allow me to follow that workflow but without the browser window or telling Google my plans, ideally in the terminal, ideallyer something as nice to use as Vim.

When I sat down to learn Go I decided to make that my project and, although messy, it's become my longest-running (though sporadically developed) personal project.

Realistically, I wouldn't suggest anybody use this except to try it, but for myself it is really useful and a fun project to tinker with sometimes.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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post #553

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?

I already shared it in another HN comment. Find it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35135960
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