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

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Post by vitorbaptistaa »

cperciva wrote: post #470
vitorbaptistaa wrote: post #158

https://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…

wget -qO shellshare http://get.shellshare.net && python shellshare Please don't tell people to do this. This is an idiom called "curl pipe sh"; you're asking people to run whatever code someone on their network decides to send them. As an absolute minimum, you should change that http to https , so that they're merely running whatever code YOU decide to send them; but even that doesn't quite fit with the "share your t…

Totally agree on the HTTPS. Wanted to change it for a while but life kept on the way. Changed it now, it's live on https://get.shellshare.net.

I also agree on the bad sides of the "curl pipe sh" pattern. Ideally, that command would be "apt-get install shellshare && shellshare", but haven't been able to write packages for it yet. There're 2 open issues about this: https://github.com/vitorbaptista/shellshare/issues/28 and https://github.com/vitorbaptista/shellshare/issues/31, if you or anyone else have some time to contribute.

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

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Post by icebraining »

alexdowad wrote: post #301
StavrosK wrote: post #12

I'm proud of many things :( * I converted a rotary phone into a cellphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8 * I wrote a personal bookmark search engine: http://historio.us/ * A site that talks to spammers so you don't have to: https://spa.mnesty.com/ * A pastebin: http://pastery.net/ * A remote-controlled GSM irrigation controller for farmers: https://gitlab.com/stavros/irrigation-controller * A button tha…

Spamnesty is really amusing! It would be even better if your bot had a wider variety of responses. I foresee that sooner or later, your bot will get stuck in an endless conversation with a spambot which keeps replying, leading to another round of replies and then another...

https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/zvtbgexy/

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

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Post by vitorbaptistaa »

Declanomous wrote: post #278
vitorbaptistaa wrote: post #158

https://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…

Wow, that's pretty cool. I've thought about moving my parents to Linux; my mom only uses the internet, and while my dad needs his computer for work, the software he uses supports Linux. I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to support Windows for them for much longer. I use Linux full time, and Windows is slowly changing. I can still talk them through most problems over the phone, but little changes here and there have…

Thanks! Glad you found it useful. I hope the transition to Linux goes well for your parents.

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

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Post by instakill »

xojoc wrote: post #601
wkoszek wrote: post #486

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you keep it out of spam?

I want it to be spammed. I was creating another site which accepted user input and the problem was: how do I avoid spam? I searched online and found some simple and clever solutions. Typed is a way to test these solutions and a way to come with new ones. This is not the only reason typed exists obviously...

Please expand on why you want it to be spammed?

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

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Post by slig »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #674

"A primer on Bezier curves", https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo It started as a small explanation on the basics of Bezier curves in 2011 and then kept growing until it's basically a full book now, hitting hacker news every year/half year, and getting lots of thanks for having made it by a very diverse crowd - from kids doing homework to engineers at software companies who have a question not covered by the material (…

Thank you for this! I've studied your material and I've able to understand an create a nice canvas coloring app.

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

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Post by rasz_pl »

weaksauce wrote: post #432

Not sure if this warrants inclusion in this list, but I'll share it anyway. I made a simple firefox/chrome extension for people that horde tabs as temp bookmarks. You might find it useful to find tabs and quickly navigate to them by clicking on the link in the list. It's free and open source. The github page has a gif showing usage. You can also type cmd-shift-e or ctrl-shift-e to switch to it. Chrome Extension: http…

Have you seen OneTab?

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

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Post by Dayshine »

viraptor wrote: post #684
flukus wrote: post #678

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Both require trusting others, how is this any different?

Out of band verification. When you're doing curl pipe sh, you're trusting the host and that's it. With packages, you can verify the trust against external services like keybase, check website archive for changed key ids, check signatures on the public key if the author is into things like web of trust. It won't protect you against someone being directly malicious, but it will against MitM, website hacks, etc. It also…

>Out of band verification. When you're doing curl pipe sh, you're trusting the host and that's it. With packages, you can verify the trust against external services like keybase, check website archive for changed key ids, check signatures on the public key if the author is into things like web of trust.

Your grandma is pretty advanced.

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

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Post by yogeshnachnani »

josho wrote: post #173
augustflanagan wrote: post #113

I built https://cronitor.io after having an important cron job fail silently for several days. When I mentioned this problem to a friend his first response was "we just had a major issue with cron failing silently at my work too". We decided to hack on it together, and we've since grown Cronitor from a tool built for our own needs into a small business with a couple hundred paying customers.

As someone about to write a cron job, what ways do you see Cron fail? My assumption is that cron is robust and reliable, it's the job script itself that may fail silently and need monitoring, yes?

The cron process can be killed by the oom_killer, resulting in missed crons. This may be aggrevated If the cron service is never respawned later.
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