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For us in the rest of the world...
I know I know ... Sorry
Don't worry, it's a nice problem to have. Having users around the globe is something you should be proud of.
Congrats.
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#752https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…
Nice! But what if I lose my mobile phone or change my number? :D
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Can you eloborate on this? Why did you have to use assembly and how did you decrypt it? Hiw did you find the key?
Sure. Bit of a long story. TL:DR at the end. I wanted to dump sounds from the game, not for myself, but because I wanted a way for people to do videos/soundbanks without having to record them from the sytem audio, which would often contain other noises from the game. So that was my initial motivation. I started by doing it the brute force way, load game, dump content of ram into a file, use a command line tool (can't…
Great story, would be cool if you included this post in the repo.
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Google has a similar feature to give trusted people access to your data if you've been inactive for a given amount of time (so probably dead): https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive
Is it safe to put my 1Password's master-password into the message that is sent in case I'm dead?
The ability to attach files to the autorespond email is unfortunately arguable both for and against.
If at least one of your friends is technically minded you could probably use yEnc.
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#755http://datafart.com
When I was learning Go a few years ago, I build a simple way to generate line graphs from the command line by piping to a cURL command. A few people still actually use it.
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Have you ever considered installing remote screensharing software rather then having to troubleshoot over the phone? That's how I help out my parents.
Yeah, I've used it at times. It's great when it works, but getting remote desktop working is always a bigger pain than just trying to explain the problem over the phone. The individual issues aren't that big, but it means a 20 minute phone call turns in to a 1 hour phone call because we spend 20 minutes trying to get screen sharing working. For one thing, I'm generally away from my computer when they call me, and all…
I suggested this in a recent similar thread: if this is a desktop, you could switch to an entry-level server motherboard with IPMI.
Then run the IPMI cable to OpenVPN on (eg) an RPi or even directly on the router.
You can configure and soak-test the router/RPi/etc locally, and IPMI is OOB.
Using an RPi/similar has some nice properties: you could VNC to that and then go from there to the IPMI console, and also recovery images stored directly on the RPi would upload quickly etc.
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#757I wrote peewee, a single file Python ORM. It's codebase is very small but it is extremely capable. http://docs.peewee-orm.com
oh nice. I remember using it long back for some personal mp3 classification software I wrote.
Nowadays though I tend to use either Key/Value stores or straight SQL.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#758I wrote peewee, a single file Python ORM. It's codebase is very small but it is extremely capable. http://docs.peewee-orm.com
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#759https://invoice-generator.com I made this 4 years ago for those times when you just need an invoice. Today 10s of thousands of individuals and businesses use this each day to get paid. It's free to use with no login required. Instead it uses localStorage to remember data.
Homepage says lite is free and unlimited, pricing page says it's limited to 10 invoices per month?
You are looking at our paid service, invoiced.com. Invoiced saves your invoices online, and does much more, whereas invoice-generator.com only generates PDF invoices.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#760https://invoice-generator.com I made this 4 years ago for those times when you just need an invoice. Today 10s of thousands of individuals and businesses use this each day to get paid. It's free to use with no login required. Instead it uses localStorage to remember data.
One of the better examples I've seen, while still very simple. What has worked well to attract visitors/users?
Thanks! Listening to users and iterating.