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

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Spamnesty is nothing short of amazing! :) I hope you'll also distribute the code so hopefully anyone not necessary trusting your service to not harvest email addresses or resell them (or get hacked) would be able to deploy that on a custom server. In any case, was very fun to read.

Actually I just noticed that your repo is available. Awesome!

Yep! Feel free to issue merge requests for features!

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

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What's a better alternative?

You could use hashpipe ( https://github.com/jbenet/hashpipe ), from Juan Benet (the author of IPFS). It simply checks that the input to the command matches a given hash, so you can do `curl | hashpipe | sh`, and if the output of the curl command is different than expected it won't be passed in to `sh`.

Ironically the prebuilt binaries of hashpipe itself are provided without means of verification :I

So if you are going to use hashpipe, I think you should download it in source form, read it -- it's under 100 SLOC -- and then build it from source yourself. This way, you do that once and then in the future provided that you trust those sending you various scripts and binaries and the channel they used to provide the hash, all is well and no further manual verification is needed on your side of things ever again for any of those.

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

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https://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…

Are the SMS being sent from Lambda or another service like Twilio?

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

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Right 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.

Thank you for that! I use your app regularly.

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

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Does anyone know of a Firefox equivalent of this extension?

No, but you can use Chrome Store Foxified to install most Chrome extensions in Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...

That's pretty neat!

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

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I wrote a concurrent, super fast webcrawler for my job with Go (~300 LOC) to get data out of customer sites fast even when they have 1.5 million pages or more. You can basically filter everything to get a .csv file in the end with the links for the given domain, the source for that links, link number, link depth, timestamp, HTTP Request Codes (200, 404 etc) that fits that filter. Filters: Number of concurrent http(s)…

Is it in github?

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

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How does it work? What does it do?

The premise is to build a json file to represent "parts" of the face. For example say I wanted to landmark a feature like the image's left eye. Here is a GIF walking through the labeling process. http://i.imgur.com/63UXkUg.gifv I would select "+New Shape" and enter in the name of the shape, in my example "left-eye". This will add the shape to model and enable cross hairs as you drag across the screen. As you click, a…

Ah, cool! I couldn't figure out how to get in a mode where you can actually place points.

This is actually pretty useful for creating stuff like image maps...

Thanks for sharing!

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

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https://www.hellobox.co

I've been building HelloBox for the good part of last 3 years. Certainly it has been the longest project I've worked on without losing interest and for that I'm quite proud, since I used to jump from a project to a project. Not planning to stop any time soon either!

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

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https://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…

"im ded :( plz walk doggie" Man, that's not how I would want to find out that a friend or family member has passed away. :-|

Oh, it's all customizable. You write whatever you want, like "I haven't checked in in a day -- please make sure I'm alright."

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

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"im ded :( plz walk doggie" Man, that's not how I would want to find out that a friend or family member has passed away. :-|

I don't know, getting that as a final joke from the right friend or younger family member might be my favorite way to be informed, and then I'd go walk their dog. I'd still be sad, of course, but there's really no good way to be informed of this. In all likely hood, I'd already be informed, and then I'd get this half-assed reminder and be all "oh my god, it's so like them!" Actually when considering likelihood, they'…

Yeah, you customize your own message -- write whatever you'd want to send, e.g. the location of a spare key.
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