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Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by lukaszkups »

I've built a Vue.js table component plugin, because every time I was working with existing ones, I had to customize it anyway to fit my needs. So I've collected my most common use cases and created my very own plugin/component - Tavuelo: https://www.npmjs.com/package/tavuelo

I've also created my very own static-site generator. Why? Because I don't like hacking around existing solutions with glue and tape to fit my own needs. So I've created something that I feel comfortable using (and doing that for ~2 years already to manage my personal website): https://github.com/writteli/writteli

In addition to that, I'm slowly working on a destkop app that will be compatible with my static site generator - think about Desktop CMS that produces you a static website in the end.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by iveqy »

tartoran wrote: post #330
iveqy wrote: post #309

I build a ncurses distributed CRM system (that also have a web frontend). I use it for my consult business, with invoicing, event logging, todo lists, projects and so on. I love a quick, keyboard driven application and I also have good codebase to use as a testing ground for CI/CD, code analysis etc. Two weeks ago I actually got my first customer buying a license for it, after being in development for 9 years!

I miss the ease with which ncurse based software made navigation and managing things. Ncurse feels like instant and being keyboard driven makes you fly through tasks. Looking forward to using more ncurse software

Here's a short demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3kpD7om_aQ

I've a long way to go before it's polished enough to be released. But for me, I use it every day.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by fredsted »

mft_ wrote: post #253
fredsted wrote: post #177

• https://webhook.site - for testing webhooks, evolved into a SaaS for building workflows from http requests and emails • https://instadj.com - simple app for making youtube playlists, wanted a simple app for playing music at parties (example: https://instadj.com/wam ) Both are open source.

Instadj looks great! Tangent, but: I was dabbling with a YouTube webapp a while back, and ran into a problem where some of the music videos had a license that didn’t allow embedding - which was obviously necessity to play within my page. (Also at the time the api didn’t succeed in filtering out such videos within a search - tho I’ve not checked back to see if this is now fixed.) Did you encounter this, and circumvent…

I'm not sure about that, I can't remember having experienced it. I also think it's dependent on the region.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by fredsted »

senko wrote: post #208
fredsted wrote: post #177

• https://webhook.site - for testing webhooks, evolved into a SaaS for building workflows from http requests and emails • https://instadj.com - simple app for making youtube playlists, wanted a simple app for playing music at parties (example: https://instadj.com/wam ) Both are open source.

Thank you for webhook.site! It's phenomenal, just works and doesn't require I jump through signup just to get started. Definitely the best webhook test tool I've seen.

Glad to hear it. One of the goals was to make it as easy as possible to get started with.

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Post by tastyfreeze »

mathgenius wrote: post #390
tastyfreeze wrote: post #150

I made my own Java libraries for interacting with about a dozen crypto exchange APIs. I used it for awhile for a triangular arbitrage bot.

That sounds like fun (except for the java part!). How did it go?

Made a little money for a lot of time spent. It was fun though.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by stkdump »

kstenerud wrote: post #484
dragonwriter wrote: post #478

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The pitch sounds a lot like that for Amazon Ion: https://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/

Similar, yes, but Ion repeats a number of mistakes from the past: * The text format doesn't have a version specifier, so any future changes to the text format will break existing codecs and documents. * Uses ISO 8601, which has bad defaults (local timezone) and doesn't support real time zones (only offsets). ISO 8601 is also too big for what it does and non-free, resulting in inconsistent implementations (and thus se…

I think your format is closer to ideal than a few others I have seen. Like json, you don't have to prefix size of lists or objects, which is a plus (or in some cases needed) for streaming. Strings can be chunked, which can serve the same purpose for huge strings. The power of json is in its simplicity though. And a binary format should retain that a much as possible. The big advantage of binary formats is not the 'conciseness' (there are compression algorithms that can help with that, where needed) but the reduction in lines of code and CPU cycles needed to serialize and deserialize. Json requires escaping/unescaping of strings and base-2 vs base-10 conversion of numbers. A binary format should mostly solve these and beyond that be as simple to implement bug-free and secure as possible.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by yunohn »

snwfog wrote: post #353

An alternative Reddit client, that is compact and desktop friendly, cuz I dislike the "modern" (read: too much negative spaces) UI. It has a "TweetDeck" look and supports multi-accounts. - https://rdddeck.com

This looks great! Is the source code available anywhere?

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by shrikant »

fredsted wrote: post #177

• https://webhook.site - for testing webhooks, evolved into a SaaS for building workflows from http requests and emails • https://instadj.com - simple app for making youtube playlists, wanted a simple app for playing music at parties (example: https://instadj.com/wam ) Both are open source.

Oh wow, you made webhook.site??! Thanks so much for it, it saved me just last week when I was beginning to worry about one part of a data pipeline that I'm responsible for :)

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by Ilikeruby »

I did build some "tools" for example:

Azeroth Weather an app which shows you the weather and the coresponding WOW zone - https://www.azerothweather.com/

Or I made Splitstream where you can watch multiple twitch streams at once - https://splitstream.net/

Nothing fancy but I'm proud!

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by Ilikeruby »

Ilikeruby wrote: post #519

I did build some "tools" for example: Azeroth Weather an app which shows you the weather and the coresponding WOW zone - https://www.azerothweather.com/ Or I made Splitstream where you can watch multiple twitch streams at once - https://splitstream.net/ Nothing fancy but I'm proud!

Oh I totally forgot Hedlajn - https://www.hedlajn.info/ a news aggregator type website for my home country of Bosnia :)
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