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

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https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl Scientific plotting in the terminal. I didn't come up with the idea of abusing unicode characters in such a way, just fyi. Example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl/ma...

Thanks, this is very impressive. I didn't know about braille unicode characters, very cool.

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

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http://yuml.me diagrams as an API. This was scratching and itch, yet get used by 1000s of people every day.

This interesting, any relation to yed and yworks? Are you making money from it? Are uml diagrams the only diagram offered? I had a similar idea years ago, web front end for dot and graphviz. Never acted on it though.

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

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Lua Newsletter(still WIP): http://luadigest.immortalin.com Merlot (Rapid website builder, WIP): https://github.com/Immortalin/Merlot Kloudtrader (Trading platform): http://kloudtrader.com

The signup workflow sends me to luadigest.github at the end, which doesn't work. Insta-subscribed though, Lua's on my todo list. (PS. I tried to reply to your previous comment but found you'd deleted it, thankfully found this comment via your account)

Thanks for the head's up. Fixed now!

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

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post #768

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The signup workflow sends me to luadigest.github at the end, which doesn't work. Insta-subscribed though, Lua's on my todo list. (PS. I tried to reply to your previous comment but found you'd deleted it, thankfully found this comment via your account)

Thanks for the head's up. Fixed now!

Cool! I'm curious though, where does the link go now? I wasn't able to find much else with poking around your domain.

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

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post #864

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the head's up. Fixed now!

Cool! I'm curious though, where does the link go now? I wasn't able to find much else with poking around your domain.

It brings you back to the newsletter page. I have a bunch of projects that are still WIP and not quite ready for their own landing pages which is why Lua Digest uses a subdomain and also why immortalin.com does not redirect to a home page. I have been trying to get HTTPS working on the site but CloudFlare's requirement to transfer over DNS control is messing up a lot of site configs so it's currently non-https for now.

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post #864

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool! I'm curious though, where does the link go now? I wasn't able to find much else with poking around your domain.

It brings you back to the newsletter page. I have a bunch of projects that are still WIP and not quite ready for their own landing pages which is why Lua Digest uses a subdomain and also why immortalin.com does not redirect to a home page. I have been trying to get HTTPS working on the site but CloudFlare's requirement to transfer over DNS control is messing up a lot of site configs so it's currently non-https for no…

Ah, cool. Very nice.

Does CloudFlare not interoperate with Let's Encrypt et al? That's not great...

(Also, did you get my email?)

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

#867

http://bostontraintrack.com Real time tracking of Boston subways, buses and commuter rails. Made mostly in a weekend and available free and open source [1]. Though it's simple, I think it gives a nice overview of the trains and buses. Boston has stop prediction so in some sense it's kind of frivolous. I think the biggest 'innovation' was to integrate the "map icons" into a nicely visualized open street map [2]. Not s…

Busses too?! Man, I wish this were around in the Bay Area!

This is very possible [1]. I use NextBus for the real time bus mapping even though the MBTA offers it because I've found NextBus to be much more accurate and stable.

I'm a little nervous because I might be violating their terms of service in using their feed without being an official customer but it's been running for a couple of years now without issue.

[1] http://webservices.nextbus.com/service/publicXMLFeed?command...

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

#868
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unsubtitle-for-net...

Unsubtitle for Netflix - Sometimes Netflix force subtitles to appear when you're watching series. I found it really annoying and decided to create this Chrome extension to disable it.

http://www.vua.sh/ - Vua.sh is a simple website that encrypts messages on the client side and stores only the encrypted message. It generates a link that can only be used once, after clicking on the link and reading the message it is destroyed from the database.

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

#869

* Picnic CSS: a simple css library. I use it for both small projects from the CDN as medium projects with the SASS that I have carefully built: http://picnicss.com/ * cookies.js, a simple cookies library that uses a getter/setter style that I (and many people) like more. I'm considering taking the format and extend some other libraries like store.js. https://github.com/franciscop/cookies.js * drive-db, a tool that co…

Thanks for making Picnic CSS! I picked it for small project recently and enjoyed using it.

I'm a fan of Umbrella JS, too.

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

#870
BoardingBot https://boardingbot.boorgle.com Is a tool I made few weeks ago over 4 days. I started it as a Facebook chat bot which sends TestFlight invitations and then realized it's also worth turning it into a more complete tool which creates a website and invitation request form which automatically sends TestFlight invitations. It was featured in ProductHunt and I was generally surprised with the positive feedback. I'm wondering if it's worth investing more time into it...
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