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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?
#632A widget that displays basic context sensitive help. I work in payments and we wanted to address user questions without polluting a simple UI and update the content without deployments:
A small directory for finding informal household services in Jakarta. Old service, ticking along - still proud of the mobile UI :)
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#633http://bostontraintrack.com Real time tracking of Boston subways, buses and commuter rails. Made mostly in a weekend and available free and open source [1]. Though it's simple, I think it gives a nice overview of the trains and buses. Boston has stop prediction so in some sense it's kind of frivolous. I think the biggest 'innovation' was to integrate the "map icons" into a nicely visualized open street map [2]. Not s…
Busses too?! Man, I wish this were around in the Bay Area!
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#634rsync.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!
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
rsync.net is a cloud service that provides a remote filesystem and ssh access. How do you envision using a remote storage provider to backup your laptop to your local server?
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#635Earlier quoted context omitted.
wget -qO shellshare http://get.shellshare.net && python shellshare Please don't tell people to do this. This is an idiom called "curl pipe sh"; you're asking people to run whatever code someone on their network decides to send them. As an absolute minimum, you should change that http to https , so that they're merely running whatever code YOU decide to send them; but even that doesn't quite fit with the "share your t…
What's a better alternative?
As viraptor said, putting code into a public repository (e.g., debian packages); that way there should be a paper trail if the code is modified.
Beyond that, there's a simple matter of advertising: "Share your terminal (read-only)" may mislead some people about what is happening. A more accurate description would be "Give us control of your terminal (we promise we'll only let other people read it, not write anything)".
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#636https://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…
Why not just SSH + shared screen / tmux? Not sure why you need to involve the browser.
Incoming SSH connections can/should be blocked by the router. There is also likely to be no static IP.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#637Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is actually one of the few types of examples that I think fit here. Most of the other people are just posting their side projects. When I clicked this I was expecting some quick bash/batch/python/etc. scripts that do useful things.
One less useful thing for you: https://onli.github.io/izulu/ . It is a bash script that changes the background of your desktop according to the weather at your locations, and can show the temperature and forecast. Doesn't have much functional value, but it was easy to write (though over the years it needed some care, mostly thanks to closing weather APIs) and it is a small simple thing I use almost every day, as it i…
That looks sweet! Is there a Windows version?
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#638http://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?
It's available on Android in Firefox (and is free). Unfortunately Chrome for Android doesn't support extensions like on the desktop.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#639Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you make a version of this that just texts my mom that "I'm okay". That'd be perfect. P.S: Yes I'm thirty. Y'all don't know Indian moms.
I'm over thirty. This isn't Indian specific...
Also over 30, starting to want them to send me messages that they're ok.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#640Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. rsync.net is a cloud service that provides a remote filesystem and ssh access. How do you envision using a remote storage provider to backup your laptop to your local server?
By using the cloud service to manage data transfer from one computer to the other, even if they are behind NAT, have changing IP addresses, ...? You know, just like CrashPlan, which otherwise also provides remote storage, does?
(rsync.net doesn't offer that, but it is not a totally outlandish idea that they could if you just know them as "cloud backup services")