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

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Post by franciscop »

averageweather wrote: post #82

http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data. EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shut…

This is really cool, would it be possible you add a toggle somewhere for Celsius degrees?

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

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Post by ensiferum »

jacobevelyn wrote: post #41

Compute for Humanity https://www.computeforhumanity.org It hasn't really taken off like I had hoped, but I still stand by the idea, and I think I really nailed the UX. For something fairly complex there's no account to create, no configuration, no installer, just open it once and you're done. Anything my 95-year-old grandma can use without help is a success in my book.

The landing page is confusing, quickly looking at it can't really discern what the page is about. Something about charity, by whom for whom and how? Can't tell, already clicking the back button.

My two cents.

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

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Post by id122015 »

StavrosK wrote: post #12

I'm proud of many things :( * I converted a rotary phone into a cellphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8 * I wrote a personal bookmark search engine: http://historio.us/ * A site that talks to spammers so you don't have to: https://spa.mnesty.com/ * A pastebin: http://pastery.net/ * A remote-controlled GSM irrigation controller for farmers: https://gitlab.com/stavros/irrigation-controller * A button tha…

that Dead mans switch type of project is only funny when you want others to use it.

That idea alone should make us reflect if we had lived a life being true to ourselves and told everyone what we wanted them to hear.

OK, next its my turn: Ill create a dating bot that contacts users on Valentines day, and invites them to restaurant if they will still be single next year. How does it feel ?

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

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Post by cromo »

The simple tool I wrote that I get the most bang for my buck out of is synesthesia[1]. I spend a lot of my time tracing things down across multiple log files, and having to pick out the important lines visually or trying to isolate them with custom grep incantations was wearing on me. Synesthesia allows you to specify regexes, and it will color matches based on the value of the match itself, meaning that it's stateless and doesn't need to keep a dictionary of strings to colors. This makes keeping track of things like GUIDs easy - you can just keep track of e.g. the orange one and watch it fly by across multiple terminals. It's currently python 2 only and assumes a 256 color terminal, but it has been invaluable.

I've been toying with using the idea for forums so that it is easier to keep track of who is replying to whom[2]. I also would like to try using it as a layer on top of traditional syntax highlighting, perhaps as an emacs minor mode - if those can provide colors to the buffer; I've written hardly any elisp and don't know what capabilities are available.

[1] https://github.com/cromo/synesthesia [2] https://imgur.com/E1N1Zsm

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

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Post by brak1 »

averageweather wrote: post #82

http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data. EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shut…

looks nice - would be handy if it was in celcius too (and if it showed avg rain %)

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

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Post by averageweather »

franciscop wrote: post #91
averageweather wrote: post #82

http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data. EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shut…

This is really cool, would it be possible you add a toggle somewhere for Celsius degrees?

Thanks! I definitely will. Hopefully today. Very common, understandable request. I only launched it a few days ago. Definitely has things I want to improve.

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

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Post by JangoSteve »

The simplest one that I also use the most is start.sh: https://github.com/JangoSteve/start

I've been using it for 3 years now, but keep forgetting to tell anyone about it. It's a simple bash script that detects what kind of project your current directory is and runs the appropriate command to start the development server.

I created it, because I found myself constantly switching between projects of different types, and it always took me a few moments to remember if the current project was Rails 2 or Rails 3/4, Node, Jekyll, Rack app, etc. and starting the development server on port 3000 was starting to take 2 or 3 tries before getting it right.

Now, I just cd into any project and run `start`. It currently detects Foreman projects, Rails (old and new), Jekyll (old and new), Gollum, plain Rack apps, and Node; and it's easy to add new things as well.

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

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Post by averageweather »

brak1 wrote: post #95
averageweather wrote: post #82

http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data. EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shut…

looks nice - would be handy if it was in celcius too (and if it showed avg rain %)

Thanks. Agreed. Will add celsius. Rain % displays when the data is there. Otherwise I don't show it. Maybe I should show N/A or something ...

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

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Post by franciscop »

* 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 converts a Google spreadsheet into a small database for Node.js: https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db

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