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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#701
A couple bash utilities I use daily(ish)

lnks: List, Save, or Instapaper your Google Chrome links from the terminal. It uses a small amount of Applescript, so it is OS X/MacOS only for now. I'm working on getting around this. https://github.com/unforswearing/lnks

aliaser: a tiny directory traversal/command aliasing tool. https://github.com/unforswearing/aliaser

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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that Dead mans switch type of project is only funny when you want others to use it. That idea alone should make us reflect if we had lived a life being true to ourselves and told everyone what we wanted them to hear. OK, next its my turn: Ill create a dating bot that contacts users on Valentines day, and invites them to restaurant if they will still be single next year. How does it feel ?

I can't tell what point you're trying to make here. And how exactly does your dating example work? It invites them only if they agree to stay single for a year?

I think parent assumes users send their confessions and sins to people after they die instead of clearing things up beforehand or living an honest life. Says more about himself/herself than the product IMHO.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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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?

Thanks! I'm thinking about adding some of the Google web fonts.

Also, there's a neat technique to make the text color either black or white depending on what has more contrast against the background color.

https://24ways.org/2010/calculating-color-contrast

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#706
Bookmarklets:

• Pretty print JSON: https://gist.github.com/niedzielski/53c98af986955053aaabcc8a...

• Zoom in on pixel art (disable image smoothing): https://gist.github.com/niedzielski/63becce4640d28caaec1eaa2...

For Chromium / Chrome. Short bookmarklets are preferable to extensions for privacy and performance concerns.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Those are really the same thing, considering that you run a copy of spiped on each side.

Oh? Maybe it's just that the documentation specifically mentions ssh -L but not ssh -R. Can you do something like run spiped on a machine behind NAT or on a dynamic ip address to create a reverse tunnel via a publicly reachable host?

Well, spiped lets you say "when connections arrive here, encrypt/decrypt them and send them over there". But if "over there" is behind a NAT, there's no way to do that; you would need a persistent connection, which is what ssh does and what spiped is designed to avoid.

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After the final one hour warning, it should call you and if you pick up, the alarm cancels. So a final step that's not passive and only requires picking up the phone instead of opening the texting app and clicking a link. Also helps if you're somewhere where you have SMS/calling but no data. Although in that case, being able to reply "I no ded" would be more reliable.

In which case your murderer answers the call.

Would it be much harder to process a tone-based password prompt?

So you receive a call and it just beeps on says "enter passcode" and you enter the code. Though to be honest it's highly unlikely that will the hypothetical murderer would pick up a phone call unless they were expecting it...

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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rsync.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…

Your website is unreadable on iOS chrome

Started with http://rsync.net/products/aws.html but all of them linked at the top are unreadable

https://youtu.be/4sz5_XsNDaQ

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#710

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What is this magic?

I didn't check the source, but rendering the to a data URL, and using something like this [0] would work. [0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5199902/isnt-it-silly-tha...

Yep, this is the strategy that I'm using. I export the canvas to data URL and place the data URL in the href attribute of the favicon . I'm not sure if this works in every browser though.
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