Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's a better alternative?
Download it, audit the code, and then do python shellshare
> Download it, audit the code
Applies to your operating system as well, plus any firmware.
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#622https://instafavicon.com/ I created this favicon generator a few weeks ago to generate minimal favicons for my side projects. I'm not good with design tools so it saves me time when I start a new project and want a simple favicon in ICO format. I'm proud of it because it's server-less. I generate the multi-BMP ICO file in binary using ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays in JavaScript. I use a element to create the images/d…
Cool. I like the fact that the icon shows in the actual tab as a preview. I guess what is missing is the option to select a font?
What is this magic?
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#623Nothing like as interesting as your other responses, I think, but I got quite into userscripts (eg for Greasemonkey) when Facebook was trying out different kinds of adverts, in the news feed and sidebar etc. Wrote a few little userscripts to stop them showing up. It was nice to regularly spot something I'd made was installed in friends' browsers.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#624https://slackpass.io
It's the missing invite system for Slack.
Let's anyone create invite pages that can accept payment (monthly, one-time) for access to a Slack community.
It's been a blast to work on. Learned React, Redux, and got into Flow and Tcombs while building it. Interest so far has lead me to realize more people are interested in creating private/paid communities online than I had previously expected.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#625https://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. Inst…
This sounds amazing! I can't seem to get it running on Chrome, but I'll check back on it!
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#626http://www.responsivetester.net
Not sure it's the project I'm most proud of, but as far as a simple tool I use everyday, this is it.
One reload shows you the site in multiple sized iframes, so you can quickly test breakpoints.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#627https://shellshare.net I have migrated my wife's (then girlfriend) computer to Linux and sometimes I had to configure something on her computer (e.g. a printer). This ended up generating lots of back and forth on the phone with me telling her commands to write in the terminal, and she reading the output out loud. I wanted an easy way to see her terminal. So shellshare was born. Shellshare allows you to run a single c…
What a great way to create huge amounts of IT maintenance work for yourself.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#628One weekend, to scratch my own long-time itch, I coded up a simple browser extension to display GitHub repo code in tree view [1]. It now also supports GitLab, works on Chrome/Firefox/Opera/Safari and has almost 90K users. [1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/octotree/bkhaagjah...
Dude, I use this every day! It's super handy for doing code reviews. Thanks :)
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#629https://10minutemail.com I built it to learn JBoss Seam, and recently re-wrote it using DeltaSpike. I personally use it almost every day!
You're a lifesaver, I'm glad I scrolled down the thread this far. Sometimes I hop around these sites when one gets blocked, but yours seems to be consistently helpful for me.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#630Stackie. It's a stack machine texture generator using single character instructions. This lets you produce textures from a very small encoding.
For example, this URL contains code for a flame texture.
http://fingswotidun.com/stackie/?code=x1x-*5*dx4**y3*p%2By!-...