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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

#81
tiny-snitch, mighty-snitch: monitor and prevent internet connections

libaws: make aws easy

aws-exec: make services easy

aws-gocljs: make webdev easy

s4, bsv: make big data easy

arch-setup, alpine-setup: make laptop bootstrap easy

backup: make backup easy and unborkable

all at https://github.com/nathants

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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I created https://a.foo a while ago which just summarizes URLs for me. Like, if I don't have time to read an article or something, I just pop 'a.foo' in front of the URI and it gives me a quick rundown. EDIT: semi worried it'll go down now that I've posted it here but meh.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

#85
I've written a podcast ad blocker. I'm not based in the US but listen to a few podcasts from large US-based networks. They don't have any ad inventory to sell so instead they fill the slots with ads for other shows on their network and I end up hearing 7 copies of the same ad for the same true crime sludge in each podcast episode.

It works by fetching the XML feed, downloading the file and applying an open-source audio fingerprinting library to identify timestamps of the same segment repeated multiple times, using ffmpeg to delete all instances of repeated segments, and republishing a new XML feed that I then consume with a standard podcast app. It works surprisingly well.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

#86
FinalKey - Hardware password manager - Includes a CLI and GUI client

DSTream - Bespoke music player for web - Includes web gui and android app

eepromlogic - LISP package for turning EEPROMs into simple programmable logic

RacingGPSTracker - Package for rendering a nice GPS overlay on top of gopro videos when road-racing.

superawesomedraw - For my (then) 2 year old son to learn how to use a mouse

justhpscan - hook scanner up to raspberry pi and scan via web gui, no drivers required so it can be used with any computer/phone on the network

u64view - bespoke client for receiving the video and audio streams from the Ultimate64 FPGA implementation of a Commodore64, for streaming on twitch

boilerController - The firmware and hardware for automatic startup and turnoff of my wood gasification boiler

chromogen - static image gallery generator for making online albums to share with friends and family

I've made many more small tools, but the above are what can be found on my github

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

#87
post #80

I created an app for tracking buses in Wellington NZ - I use it every day and I love it. I always meant to publicise it widely, but to be honest it works perfectly for me and I can't be bothered dealing with issues specific to other people.

    #!/bin/sh
    echo "Bus $1 has been cancelled :("

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

#88

I created https://a.foo a while ago which just summarizes URLs for me. Like, if I don't have time to read an article or something, I just pop 'a.foo' in front of the URI and it gives me a quick rundown. EDIT: semi worried it'll go down now that I've posted it here but meh.

How did you manage to buy such a short domain? It's nice!

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

#89
post #33

I wrote something on Android a few years back called Reward-o-matic. Basically every time one of the kids did something really good, you pressed a button next to their name and a counter went up by £0.50. At the end of the month that got added to their pocket money as a bonus. Both the app and the idea worked pretty well.

That's phenomenal! So simple and elegant.
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