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My wife and I made it so that I could quickly paste timestamps from various log files and see the relative time between then and now. It also allows for a pretty basic relative time entry, like "2 weeks ago", etc...
My hakko soldering station doesn't automatically turn off if I leave it on. One time I was leaving town and had to worry about my house fire for the whole weekend. So I made an Arduino/msp430 from spare parts to do just that. https://gist.github.com/htruong/bed170c71983dfcc7c0968174aae... Other than that, I also made a Apple ADB to USB converter so I can use my old Apple Extended keyboard II with my new computer. Har…
Do you have any details on the ADB convertor? I have a few old keyboards I'd love to be able to use!
You only need an Arduino Micro Pro (the 5V/16Mhz variant). The cheap ones on eBay work just fine.
https://unshorten.link I work in security and have a paranoia of shortened links (bit.ly, t.co). I got frustrated with the options out there that forced me to right click every shortened link or paste it into a site so I made this Chrome extension / web app. It is pretty simple and keeps a list of 300+ shortened link services to check against. If your browser ever visits one it redirects you to the site to expand the…
Does anyone know of a Firefox equivalent of this extension?
It started as a small explanation on the basics of Bezier curves in 2011 and then kept growing until it's basically a full book now, hitting hacker news every year/half year, and getting lots of thanks for having made it by a very diverse crowd - from kids doing homework to engineers at software companies who have a question not covered by the material (yet).
It's been a mostly low effort investment and I could have just as easily not bothered, but just adding small bits at a slow pace parts of on the internet: five years of improvement would not have happened if I'd simply not bothered, and now there is an amazingly popular free resource for this material easily findable online.
https://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!
It's not totally unique, but I made a simple tool I call "watch" that runs terminal commands on file save. You specify a file glob and a command and it runs the command whenever a globed file changes. Also has a few handy flags. I use it ever day to automate my file save->compile->run workflow. It's amazing how much time you save by never having to up-arrow/enter a terminal after every save. Been meaning to update it…
For a brief moment I thought you wrote the Unix utility watch. Cool project anyway!
The simple tool I'm most proud of is spiped. If you have two systems which need to be able to talk over TCP without worrying about evilness on the network between them, spiped is the answer. The simple tool which has probably had the largest impact is bsdiff -- now found used in hundreds of millions of devices -- but I'm not particularly proud of it because it was a quick hack and horrible code written by a C novice.…
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I agree with the HTTPS part, but aside from that I can't really see how it's less safe than saying "here, install this .deb (which gets to run scripts as root) and then run the binary inside".
deb packages distributed to the public should be pgp signed and in a proper repository. It doesn't help people who will just force-install it anyway, but if they care it allows verification.
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That reminds me, I keep meaning to look into seeing how hard it would be to add a reverse mode to spiped. Right now it acts like a ssh -L tunnel, but doesn't have a mode where it acts like ssh -R, right?
Those are really the same thing, considering that you run a copy of spiped on each side.
"A primer on Bezier curves", https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo It started as a small explanation on the basics of Bezier curves in 2011 and then kept growing until it's basically a full book now, hitting hacker news every year/half year, and getting lots of thanks for having made it by a very diverse crowd - from kids doing homework to engineers at software companies who have a question not covered by the material (…