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

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Post by porsager »

megous wrote: post #600
porsager wrote: post #301

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Thanks! I'm curious - What's the reason you don't like the tagged template literal? It's those that give you implicit safe parameters and let's you avoid doing parameter counting when writing queries.

I don't like the sql() helpers part, and that they try to guess whether I want a helper for insert or update, based on some regexes and that helpers for different things all are sql(something) while doing very different things. https://github.com/porsager/postgres/blob/master/lib/index.j... I also tend to compose queries out of smaller static parts dynamically, and tagged syntax does seem to make that hard. Patterns…

That makes perfect sense. Thanks a lot for the feedback.

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

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Post by doctor_eval »

newusertoday wrote: post #554
doctor_eval wrote: post #381

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I found that I wanted something really specific, and built a tool in Go that lets you write, modify and use plpgsql functions as if they were regular source code files rather than database objects. You can write them as Go packages, import those packages into other Go projects, and write tests - without maintaining migration files for anything other than the tables. Combined with IDEA’s plpgsql language support it’s…

can you give more details, i am generating golang and js functions corresponding to plpgsql functions in somewhat hacky way. I am curious to know what approach have you taken, is it something similar to this project https://github.com/gchaincl/dotsql

hey sorry i didn't see this earlier. it's not a code generator, as such, it's really just a structured way to write PLPGSQL functions alongside Go code, and have it deployed and upgraded automagically.

It would be great to generate Go stubs from the SQL definitions and I don't do that. I'd like something a bit like dotsql but ideally where it creates actual Go funcs out of the SQL function signatures.

The bit that I've done so far lets you package up SQL functions into a schema and treat them as a Go package. you can include them in go.mod and the functions are maintained without writing migration scripts.

I'm under the pump at the moment but I'll try to write something up about it and maybe ping you on github some time. Sorry i don't have much time at the moment!

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

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Post by theSealedTanker »

wenbin wrote: post #136

Early 2017, I built Listen Notes [1] , so I can search podcast episodes by keywords and listen to individual podcast episodes without subscribing to the entire podcast. A few years ago, most podcast apps assume you wanted to subscribe to podcasts first then listen. Maybe I’m not a typical podcast listener. I don’t like subscribing to podcasts. I just want to listen to individual episodes then move on. Similar to cons…

I applied for listen notes API request but didn't get a reply back. I hope you get this sorted out. Time is valuable

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

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Post by megous »

porsager wrote: post #601
megous wrote: post #600

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't like the sql() helpers part, and that they try to guess whether I want a helper for insert or update, based on some regexes and that helpers for different things all are sql(something) while doing very different things. https://github.com/porsager/postgres/blob/master/lib/index.j... I also tend to compose queries out of smaller static parts dynamically, and tagged syntax does seem to make that hard. Patterns…

That makes perfect sense. Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Anyway, I'm a fan of suckless (https://suckless.org/) and I try to use minimum set of dependencies (incl. transitive dependencies) in my node projects too. I like your project a lot from this perspective and that given its small size and lack of dependencies, it's also easily malleable to different needs, than the ones you anticipated.

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

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Post by schappim »

schappim wrote: post #399
schappim wrote: post #391

I made a macOS script that OCRs text on screen. It is super handy for dealing with everything from scanned documents with account numbers to web pages with text in images. When I press F16, I get an image capture cursor, and the area selected is turned into text. Example: https://files.littlebird.com.au/Screen-Recording-2021-05-17-...

Edit: I'll clean the script up and make it available as a "Show HN:" soon.

As promised, the Show HN is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27227925

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

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Post by jareklupinski »

Thomaschaaf wrote: post #170
jareklupinski wrote: post #142

I built a really simple cloud watchdog using only free-tier services: http://www.watchdog.email/ https://github.com/jareklupinski/watchdog-email planning on adding a timeout parameter soon!

Maybe I missed it. But what use case is this for?

I have a few microcontroller projects scattered around that phone home to the watchdog server once a day. If one goes a day without phoning home, I get an email to go check it out :)

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

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Post by nathansherburn »

schappim wrote: post #605
schappim wrote: post #399

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edit: I'll clean the script up and make it available as a "Show HN:" soon.

As promised, the Show HN is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27227925

Thank you!

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

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Post by nidhaloff »

Last year I built deep-translator https://github.com/nidhaloff/deep-translator

I wanted a tool where multiple translators are integrated and where I can get translations from different sources but only using one tool. I then tried to build a cross platform mobile app using python (which is not the best language for this, I know) https://github.com/nidhaloff/Translator-pp

Probably the best project I built/started last year is the machine learning package igel: https://github.com/nidhaloff/igel

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

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Post by elbrujohalcon »

All of them for Erlang, but still…

https://github.com/inaka/worker_pool - A pool of workers

https://github.com/inaka/elvis_core - A linter for Erlang

https://github.com/adroll/rebar3_format - A formatter for Erlang

https://github.com/adroll/rebar3_hank - An oxbow code detector for Erlang

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