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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
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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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)…
Imagine if this principle were applied to other software products. "Click here to download the Office installer, which will gain full admin-level access to your machine. We promise to only use that to install Office."
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#713https://instafavicon.com/ I created this favicon generator a few weeks ago to generate minimal favicons for my side projects. I'm not good with design tools so it saves me time when I start a new project and want a simple favicon in ICO format. I'm proud of it because it's server-less. I generate the multi-BMP ICO file in binary using ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays in JavaScript. I use a element to create the images/d…
oh cool! That's way better than trying to be a pixel artist in http://www.favicon.cc/ :D I solved a similar problem--- I was tired of websites that didn't provide favicons. So I have a chrome extension that hashes the domain and fetches a gravatar icon for it. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/replace-missing-fa...
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#714Made a python command line tool that decrypts and dumps assets from an indie video game called awesomenauts. I started knowing next to zero in assembly, reverse engineering and crypto. Took me about two months -spread accross 2 years- of work and learning to do it. The game uses a modified AES crypto, just the key expansion was modified, probably so it can be different enough to not look like AES, but still benefit f…
Can you eloborate on this? Why did you have to use assembly and how did you decrypt it? Hiw did you find the key?
I think answering the questions about decryption and finding the key would make a pretty nice blog post, if OP has a blog.
Edit: Looks like he made a really detailed follow up comment describing the process. Impressive.
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Oh man, I've been a fan of your app for so long! Have you ever considered an official iOS app? I think it's the only thing that keeps me from leaving Apple Notes.
I did make a TaskPaper iOS app, but then got overstretched and and wasn't able to continue working on it. I did open source the code here: https://github.com/jessegrosjean/NOTTaskPaperForIOS I think the most popular app that derives from that code is TaskMator: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/taskmator-taskpaper-client/i... I might make another iOS app for TaskPaper at some point. But as an individual developer split…
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#716source code: https://github.com/foray1010/Popup-my-Bookmarks
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#717Really proud of this, saves a lot of time and people tell me they love using it, if you want a REST API with all the features (OAuth, JWT, multiple databases, etc) without the maintenance, it's for you
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#718I built https://fancyjson.com in a day about 5 months ago. I've used it pretty often since. Its a fancy JSON beautifier. It tries to compact simple objects and spaces all delimiters. It also attempts to align array children. The idea was to produce the most compact, yet still easily readable form of a JSON document. I was creeped out when trying to find something like this online, because there are many which send yo…
Neat! just tried it with this json and it didn't do a great job: { "name": "vuejs-guide-test-1", "version": "0.0.1", "description": "My app", "author": "Duncan Lock ", "private": true, "dependencies": { "vue": "^2.0.5" }, "devDependencies": { "babel-core": "^6.1.2", "babel-loader": "^6.1.0", "babel-plugin-transform-runtime": "^6.1.2", "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.1.2", "babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.1.2", "babel-runtime":…
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#719A handy icon resizer, yet it's a simple script but it's benefiting many dev and designers now ;)
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#720I made this because as tutorial youtube lover I got distracted by the youtube "recommended" clickbaits
It simple hides all distraction videos -> simple turn off switch if you have some spare time ;)
wanna use your own ? https://github.com/franzherzog/youtube-distraction-free