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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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#722We used to play DnD with a TV screen flat on the table. The DM would show city/battle maps on the TV, and we could walk across them with our miniatures. We liked to play with a grid, but not all maps had one. So I whipped up a tool just to get a grid on a picture and save it: https://www.gridtool.xyz
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#723I created PyLaunch, a web UI for running scheduled Python scripts. For my personal use, it has usually been to send daily/weekly notifications about things: weather, metrics about my projects, news about TV shows and video games, shopping/prices, etc. I am basically sending stuff to push notification services like Pushover or Ntfy.sh. It has been working really well. I was surprised to see a few sign-ups already in less than a month.
If you're interested: https://pylaunch.com
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#724three windows tools for my surface book (only first is device specific):
https://gitlab.com/WRFpcT/surface-tools
filcker-fix (ahk): fix top line flicker bug of SB1 and SB2.
cursor-keys (ahk): maps right shift + cursor to home, end, pgup, pgdown
event-filter (java): get event logs in useful text format
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#725The outgrowth of an overburdened spreadsheet, I made a task management system in Elm specifically designed for recurring, non-urgent tasks: https://www.lunartasks.com
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#726I was tired of checking text files for texts that I need frequently (passwords, logins, accounts, snippets, server ips, ... ) so I created this clipboard manager to retrieve that data with keyboard shortcuts, then I polished and decided to publish it
in case you want to check (only osx):
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#727Not sure if this qualifies as an "app", but I wrote this little powershell script to test for an active internet connection. Beeps when connected. I use it almost every day, because my cable modem takes a variable length of time to boot up, and I got tired of checking manually
$connected = $false
while($true)
{
if (-not $connected)
{
$connected = Test-Connection www.google.com -Quiet
}
else
{
Write-Host "Connected"
[console]::beep(1000, 500)
}
Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
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#728Fun topic! These days I build everything for myself, then publish and see if someone else is interested (mostly not :-) First thing I built, when I started doing full-stack stuff: https://pushdata.io It's a super simple time series data storage. You don't even have to register an account, just do "curl -X POST https://pushdata.io/youremail@yourdomain.com/temperature/47 " and you've stored your first value. I use it a…
Nice, with pushdata, do you check if someone uses the same GMail account using GMail's "plus" and "dots" [0] features? (E.g. given bob@gmail.com, then bob+anything@gmail.com, b.ob@gmail.com, bo.b@gmail.com, b.o.b@gmail.com etc are all valid and points to the same address.) 0. https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...
Nope, there is no restriction for plus addresses. I validate email addresses and specifically allow + and . in the part before the @ sign. myemail+1@mydomain.com and myemail+2@mydomain.com will be considered two different users.
Have to add also that the "plus feature" isn't a Gmail-specific invention but a standardized way of referring to the same mailbox using different addresses. But some email providers don't support this feature, and many input validators out on the Internet don't either.
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#729I made https://whatwasontvlastnight.com for myself so I can check what new shows were on the previous night and have them emailed to me. I couldn't find anything that would do that. 10 random people found it and signed up too :)
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#730A Marvel comics reading list manager. It lets you subscribe to series, see what came out any given week, then mark things on your list read or skipped.
It uses the Marvel API so it's not monetizable and it's hard to get motivated to run a money-losing project. I've reconsidered modernizing it and opening it up now that I have more disposable income for hosting.