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Post by slmjkdbtl »

iamwil wrote: post #569
slmjkdbtl wrote: post #420

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the idea! Sushis are indeed very "pokemon-like" they all have very different characteristics and very cute looks. Have you thought about gamifying it somehow? Also I hope there's some kind of stats and lore on each sushi, so going on this page would be like exploring a pokedex.

I have thought about gamification, but I wasn't sure how you could verify the picture of the fish people posted was the actual fish. At best, people would play against themselves, just a collections game. Do you mean a made-up fantasy lore? Or actual background on the fish? What kind of stats?

I'm not a big sushi person, but stats could be stuff like freshness, juiciness, visual attractiveness, price, etc. Doesn't have to be that accurate but I think it'll add some appeal to the Torodex.

Lore could be just a description, if there's any history to this specific dish, what it's made of and how it's made, etc. and yeah could add some jokes / fantasy lore just to spice it up.

Mainly I'm hoping these sushis are all like manga characters and each have their own personality and stories (it's always exciting to read those manga data books), just my 2 cents!

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

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Post by mavsman »

dceddia wrote: post #246

Last year I built Recut[0], a native Mac app that helps speed up video editing by automating the rough-cut process. It finds silence, gaps, and pauses and removes them, creating a cut list that you can import into editors like ScreenFlow, Final Cut, Premiere and Resolve. Here’s the Show HN [1] from a couple months ago. I built it because I was making screencasts and cutting out silence + mistakes was 90% of my editin…

Starting to get more serious about video editing for my YouTube channel and I'll definitely be giving this a try, most likely purchasing it!

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Post by dceddia »

mavsman wrote: post #572
dceddia wrote: post #246

Last year I built Recut[0], a native Mac app that helps speed up video editing by automating the rough-cut process. It finds silence, gaps, and pauses and removes them, creating a cut list that you can import into editors like ScreenFlow, Final Cut, Premiere and Resolve. Here’s the Show HN [1] from a couple months ago. I built it because I was making screencasts and cutting out silence + mistakes was 90% of my editin…

Starting to get more serious about video editing for my YouTube channel and I'll definitely be giving this a try, most likely purchasing it!

Great! I'd love to hear what you think, whether it fits your workflow or if there are missing pieces that you'd need. Contact info is in my profile if you're open to a chat!

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Post by olingern »

amacneil wrote: post #188

Dbmate: https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate I found most database migration tools tried to be too smart (I'm not a fan of automatic migrations), were too tightly integrated with specific languages or frameworks, or didn't support basic developer workflow pleasantries such as dropping and recreating the database. I created a simple single binary migration tool that runs migrations (sql files), and keeps track of applie…

dbmate user here. used it for sqlite migrations and it has been a joy to work with!

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Post by atatatat »

eps wrote: post #374
cperciva wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Protocol complexity, number of vulnerabilities in the codebase, and for ssh there's reliability as well. (SSH tunnels multiplex connections over a single TCP connection, whereas TLS and spiped map one TCP connection to one TCP connection.)

But what's wrong with stunnel?

It's not Wireguard.

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Post by rozenmd »

I built OnlineOrNot - https://onlineornot.com because the UX of every website monitoring service I tried sucked.

I originally built it as a performance monitoring service (runs Google Lighthouse), then later expanded its capabilities to run uptime checks against HTTP/HTTPS pages.

Not open source, but I am planning on funding open source through the proceeds.

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Post by piotrkaminski »

apuchitnis wrote: post #561
piotrkaminski wrote: post #535

Starting in 2014 I built Reviewable ( https://reviewable.io ) because after getting used to Critique at Google I couldn't stand the workflow of GitHub's PR code reviews. Reviewable gives you interdiffs (even when rebasing), tracks what you've already reviewed, has a rich comment resolution system for multi-party reviews, and lets you know when the ball is in your court. It has also grown more customizable over the ye…

This is cool! I used Phabricator ( https://www.phacility.com/phabricator ) in the past, which I really liked, and this seems to have many of the same features. I think your landing page could be clearer though. If I hadn't had used better tools than GH in the past, I don't think I'd understand what I was considering signing up for.

Thanks! I agree that I suck at marketing and would love to hand that job off to somebody with more skill. :)

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Post by mro_name »

rcarmo wrote: post #502

There are four things I quite enjoyed creating, in no particular order: - https://github.com/rcarmo/pngcanvas because there was nothing similar that ran on Google App Engine - https://github.com/rcarmo/imapbackup because I needed a migration tool from Sun IMS to Exchange - https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap because it helped me survive well beyond Google Reader for a long time - https://github.com/piku/piku because i…

looking forward to see the revamped sushy code. Am currently hunting for further inspiration for the OCaml successor of https://github.com/mro/ShaarliGo

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Post by aryeshalev »

In 2017 I built Twitark - https://github.com/pantchox/Twitark Its a Node.js CLI tool that connects to Twitter Stream API to archive tweets and trends (all countries)

You can connect to Twitter stream API which is about %1 of whole twitter (was mentioned in their forums) and you can connect to Twitter Filter API with predefined hashtag monitoring or users monitoring and get all these related tweets.

Twitark creates daily rotated zip archives for each day structured in folders where each minute of tweets is set is a JSON file.

An archived day of Twitter stream API is about ~2GB per day.

I use this to analyze big data and trends with Twitter, also for past data. So far it is working very well and I've been working on database adapters such as Postgres, Sqlite which are on different branch (not yet committed to master) so you can write directly to your database instead of zip files.

The second open source project I released is actually being used in Twitark. It called Joebear (play of words of Jobber) https://github.com/pantchox/joebear

Its a Node.js serial queue manager, using old school Node.js event emitter. The goal of Joebear is to receive a list of jobs and run one by one, if one fails there is ability to reset or stop at any given time. In Twitark it is being used to monitor the Twitter Trends API.

I still hope more people will make use of my open source projects, I really invested time to write the documentation as well, but I don't have many stars on Github.

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