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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
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Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
#852Hey! I am building a sailing simulator built on my own openGL engine. See this:
https://archipelagosim.com/
Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
#853My grandmother has dementia. About twice a day, she calls my parents every 5 minutes, forgetting that she just hung up. The calls are always the same: "You live there now. Yes you have money. We came to visit you yesterday." This can go on for an hour or so. My parents are incredibly patient, but after a couple of these calls, they'll just leave the phone to ring. The soundtrack of the phone constantly ringing in the…
"The soundtrack of the phone constantly ringing in the house, and the guilt associated with not picking up, is unbearable."
Hit me right in the feels.
Thanks for sharing pigcat. Beautiful problem solving.
Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
#854I'm late to the party, but I'll compensate by posting 2 things.
1. [Zircon][zircon] is a text gui library I have been working on for a few years in my spare time, although I haven't contributed much to it lately. It also comes with a tutorial in which I implement a simple roguelike game ([Caves of Zircon](caves-of-zircon)).
2. This is more recent (in fact I haven't finished it yet): I have been working on a toolkit in the last few weeks that includes a scheduler, an event bus and a state machine library ([Cobalt](cobalt-ts)). Using these in conjuncion you can easily implement a workflow engine (that's what I'm gonna use this for). The interesting part is that it is implemented by using functional programming. Feel free to check it out if you need something like it (permissive license).
[zircon]: https://github.com/Hexworks/zircon [caves-of-zircon]: https://hexworks.org/posts/tutorials/2018/12/04/how-to-make-... [cobalt-ts]: https://github.com/Hexworks/cobalt-ts/blob/master/libs/hexwo...
Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
#855I just moved to the bay area. I made an app that scrapes all bay area events from meetup, eventbrite, and a couple of other sites- This way you end up with around 100 events a day, way too much to read through. So next I take each event, send it to chatgpt3.5 and ask it to rate this event on around 20 parameters. Next, I take the latitude/longitude of each event and measure driving distance from my house. Then I have…
this is brilliant, please open source it. I need AI to tell me which AI events to go to.
Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
#856A software developer and football (soccer) fan who lives in an antipodean time zone, I enjoy watching games on demand the morning after they occur. Apart from watching the games of the team I support, I like to watch one or two of the most entertaining games in any given week, but score spoilers absolutely ruin the experience for me. So, I created https://laterball.com : a web app the algorithmically determines the b…
That's a great thought! But, how does it decides the score for watchability or how interesting the games are?
Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
#857For 6 years I had a long distance relationship between Peru and Germany. When you are in different timezones it can actually be nice to fall asleep with the other person "close" to you; so we kept Skype running while one of us went to bed and the other person was working on the PC. Unfortunately the internet connection would regularly drop, ending the Skype call. Now you did not want to wake the other person by calli…
Did the same with Google Hangouts which wouldn't end the call if someone dropped, and when their internet came back up they would automatically be back in the call. I think that's how it worked.
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#858During the COVID19 pandemics I wrote an app to help my mom cook with anything she had at home, so she could go fewer times to the supermarket, considering her heavy smoking and old age, the best is to avoid exposure.
The app is just a search where you input the ingredients you have and you get a list of possible food you can cook with it. I crawled over 6000 recipes over the network. In fact I have over 120k recipes in Portuguese but can't display them due to legal restrictions. After some time I decided to create a site and open-source it:
I added some recipes in english as well.
Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
#859Blind developer here; I often write tools for myself to perform some task that is not well supported by my screenreader. For example: * I wrote an add-on that allows me to read HN comments in a structured way. A typical screenreader would present page in a linear manner, so you'd have to read all replies in order, which is quite tedious in popular posts. My add-on parses the page and identifies the level of each comm…
I'm not blind but I wrote an EPUB to Text-To-Speech reader using Coqui (a really good AI TTS project). There are books I wanted to listen to while doing other things, and I couldn't find audio-book versions of them, so this worked out perfectly. It could be that I did not do enough searching, but I was surprised I didn't see anything out there that already worked this way.
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#860When I was a student there was this power-of-two game on my friend's iPhone that I was literally addicted to. I didn't have an iPhone and eventually the game even disappeared from the AppStore. I missed it very much and my friends jokingly mentioned building a copy just for me. They never got around to it but at some point I thought "maybe I should give it a try?". So I gave it a try with no game dev knowledge and th…
4000pts even and I'm done for the day
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