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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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I am building a BRep CAD kernel from scratch.

I intend to open source it once fillets work real good. That will take a while, but I've made pretty good progress since I started 10 weeks ago.

Medium term goal is to release a GUI application that can be used to import STEP files and just do very high quality fillets in. Would be very useful for many hobbyists, I think.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Recently I got AI to help make a script to convert a CSV dump of trading activity on a trading platform for uploading into another stock trading analysis platform.

Later on, I managed to crunch the numbers in the script, and realised I could dump them out and display them in a dashboard alongside the trade activity. So I built that too,

An excel spreadsheet could have done the same job as the dashboard, but the script for conversion was greatly aided by the AI tool. The work otherwise would have been a bit of manual coding and back-and-forth testing.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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I am building a BRep CAD kernel from scratch. I intend to open source it once fillets work real good. That will take a while, but I've made pretty good progress since I started 10 weeks ago. Medium term goal is to release a GUI application that can be used to import STEP files and just do very high quality fillets in. Would be very useful for many hobbyists, I think.

As someone who is just learning CAD…what makes a fillet “ver high quality”?

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Paste manager that can sync: https://github.com/egeozcan/mahpastes

A web app to create anagrams (for now Turkish): https://github.com/egeozcan/anagramci

An RTS game for which AI generates classic AI scripts, so they battle each other or against a human: https://github.com/egeozcan/unnamed_rts play link: https://egeozcan.github.io/unnamed_rts/game/

clipt9n (clipboard translation / transformation): https://github.com/egeozcan/clipt9n

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Recently I made Vocast ( https://github.com/cnrmurphy/vocast ) - a cli driven tool that uses local TTS models to convert articles to "podcasts" and expose them via RSS feed. I wanted a way to listen to articles without having to pay for an app. I convert the article on my PC (which gets added to a managed library), run a web server, run Tailscale on both PC and phone, then I can use a podcast app to access my library…

I do something similar with Kokoro, Cloudscraper, and Trafilatura but just share the output to my phone with Airdrop. I use it for articles, PDFs, and HN threads.
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