http://fooltools.net
MP3 file cutter (still rough around the edges)
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#722I have some sideprojects around the internet, but so far the most useful thing I made has been http://paralleltext.io A tool that helps you learn languages by reading public domain books. I should continue working on that...
This is incredible!
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#723Right now, https://fromscratch.rocks a smart and simple autosaving note taking application. It's a rectangle you can type into, and if you use it like that, that's all it is. But if you want more, you can use note-folding, a whole bunch of text manipulation changes and best of all, it's automatically written to disk (no saving needed ever) in a real text file, so syncing and backup is really simple.
Super neat, but all the download links on the site are dead (tag name missing 'v' in 'v1.2.0'). I was gonna' submit a PR, but it doesn't seem to be managed via a public repo.
Yeah the site's separately managed from the app. I noticed it after someone filed an issue and fixed it straight away. Thanks :)
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#724I got tired of remembering how to format date/times as strings and made http://www.foragoodstrftime.com/
I use this on almost every project. Thank you!
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#725We're a bunch of web devs out there doing "JavaScript code-golfing", for fun. The goal is to make mini apps, or mini-games, with the smallest possible source code. Here are some handy apps / cool demos that we've made: (the full list is here: https://gist.github.com/xem/206db44adbdd09bac424 ) - https://github.com/xem/miniSpeechSynthesis (73b+ speech synthetizer) - https://github.com/xem/miniSpeechRecognition (100b+ s…
Very nice. I'm going to star all of these. Reminds me my CPU model in 60 lines of code: https://github.com/wkoszek/cpu60
Cool! I'm also making a tiny x86 emulator :)
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#726There are several. * cfgen, a config files generator that is fed with config templates and parameters to fill them * CronBuilder, to pull a repository, run building command, and save the results in another repository * flowmon, which shows bandwith usage of different streams, each defined by BPF filter (a.k.a. "tcpdump syntax") * sftponly, a shell for jailing in chroot accounts meant for data transfer only (for scp,…
sftponly is really nice, needs updating and wider distribution (more packages for more distros).
What do you mean by "needs updating"?
And with packages, I disagree. I only use Debian (and have used Red Hat some time ago), so it would be quite troublesome for me to provide package build scripts for anything else. I wouldn't expect any developer to provide packaging for the whole variety of distributions and OSes. But providing a sane build process is enough for anybody to build a package for their OS.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#727https://shellshare.net I have migrated my wife's (then girlfriend) computer to Linux and sometimes I had to configure something on her computer (e.g. a printer). This ended up generating lots of back and forth on the phone with me telling her commands to write in the terminal, and she reading the output out loud. I wanted an easy way to see her terminal. So shellshare was born. Shellshare allows you to run a single c…
I like https://tmate.io/ for this. It also has a read-write option. :-)
This is another great option, with much more features than shellshare. At the time I started working on shellshare, it only allowed read/write sessions, so I wrote it anyway.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#728https://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…
You can use
to make color selection more flexible.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#729Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's a better alternative?
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)…
As usual, you can never be sure unless you read the code, luckily, it's very small: https://github.com/vitorbaptista/shellshare/blob/master/publ...
The only thing sent to shellshare's servers is the text in your bash terminal. There's no return channel for the servers to send commands back to the computer.
You could argue that you're giving control of the terminal because you're running a third-party executable, but that's the same for any executable you run.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#730I've just made this interactive periodic table of elements. It's a periodic table that you can interact with like Google maps or similar. Zooming in progressively reveals more information about each chemical weekend element including images, video and Wikipedia content http://periodictablemap.com
Really like it :-)
Useful and great example of how to show data.