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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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#68225 years ago I needed an app that would transliterate my writing in English to my native language (Nepali), as I did not know how to type in my native language (which I still don't). So I made a 1 person use transliterater. The fonts used for my native language then were mostly ascii fonts with typefaces changed to characters of Nepali. When unicode became more common, then an app that would change from those ascii fonts to unicode.
Then I needed units converter as Nepal uses different units of measurement compared to metric as local levels. Hence unit converter for myself.
Few more applications on the way, but most have been replaced by Google.
In the last 4 years I have moved away from programming to being a full time farmer. Here I needed simple app that would take market data from past years to figure out when I would get the best price for a crop. Hence I made one for myself that would aid me make my crop calendar. Now working on a simple 1 person app for a crop calendar.
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#6831. https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space Space Nerds in Space, a multiplayer starship bridge simulator for linux 2. Gneutronica, a MIDI drum machine program https://github.com/smcameron/gneutronica 3. gaseous-giganticus a program to generate textures for gas giant planets https://github.com/smcameron/gaseous-giganticus 4. explodomatica, a program to generate "explosion noises" by filtering white noise htt…
you win my coolest app names prize, for your apps 2, 3, 4 and 7 ! :)
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#684A while ago, I wrote gearfinder, to help find gear combinations to match a given ratio. [1] It's a little GUI written in Lazarus
I've written a BitGrid simulator in Lazarus.[2] BitGrid is a hypothetical computing architecture I've been noodling with for decades. I'm hoping to learn Verilog/VHDL/RTL enough get a chip made in one of the free shuttles.
Then comes the hard part... programming the thing. I keep pushing myself back into perpetual analysis paralysis.
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#685A lot! i've just written everything down here: https://jerrynsh.com/a-look-back-on-7-years-of-automating-st... it was alot of fun and a good reminder of why i started programming
the one that meant the most for me was earlier this year, I made an add-on for me and my friends that automatically syncs esports matches (e.g. Valorant, CS, LoL etc.) to Google Calendar . Things took some turns 10 months later I now have 100+ users (https://tournacat.com/).
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#686I made my own tab manager as a Chrome extension, it gives some statistics, and let me filter out tabs.
I wish the grouping API was available on Chrome, even if the docs say they are, they just don't work properly.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#687I have been working on a universal calendar app, named, Clendar.
My goal is to learn SwiftUI and explore new technologies.
The app is now open source on GitHub as well, it's my way to give back to the community as I was learning it.
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[1] Download link: https://apps.apple.com/app/clendar-a-calendar-app/id15481020...
[2] Landing page: https://vinhnx.github.io/clendar-site
[3] GitHub: https://github.com/vinhnx/Clendar
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#688Like every programmer before me, I created a to-do list app of course! However, as a programmer, I prefer trees to lists so I made a to-do tree app. I have been using it religiously every day since to manage all aspects of my life in a way that I couldn't previously with tools like Wunderlist (RIP) or didn't have the time to make work in this way like Notion. Shockingly there aren't many other options out there for t…
Cool! I had been meaning to try my hand at a to-do app ever since I read "Getting Things Done" a few years ago, and I finally spent a couple weekends on it this month. The tree structure is 100% the way to go, and it's surprisingly uncommon as you note. It's been a fun & educational project so far. It's only SQLite file & some Python functions, no polish whatsoever. Probably will never get to the level of what you have, so hat's off!
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#689I created a note-taking app which works in every* browser, with and without JS and CSS, has bookmarklets for clipping, PKI-backed user accounts, completely portable data format, threaded conversations, completely auditable data structure, labeling, queryable with SQLite, web of trust for the user identities, and support for adding and running code. * Mosaic has issues, and I have not tested on many pre-Mosaic browser…
Wow! I thought I was familiar with the history of the web, but I didn’t realize there were pre-Mosaic browsers! Just to confirm: you are referring to this link in your profile, correct? https://github.com/gulkily/pollyanna Edit: glad to see w3m in the supported browser list!
Yes, the first browser was WorldWideWeb, written by TBL himself. Then, there was a small ecosystem of other browsers before Mosaic came into the picture. Mosaic was the first browser with a "must-have feature" which allowed it to become very popular compared to the others. This must-have feature was inline images, using the tag. Before this, if you wanted to include an image to a page, you linked to the file with an tag. After Mosaic became popular, the team who developed it started Netscape, which was unofficially called Mozilla, i.e. Mosaic K*lla. This was sort of the "zeroth" browser war. Netscape's must-have feature at the time was frames using the and tag. After that, came IE and the "first" browser war, between IE and Netscape...
(I wasn't there, but I've done a lot of research into this.)