Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

#1

Post by s-xyz » Sun, Jan 02, 2022, 3:35 PM UTC

When we speak of online tools, one can think of converters, calculators or even auxiliary functionalities.

What kind of tools are you currently using, missing or think can be improved?

Some examples:

- timestamp to date converter (e.g. https://magictools.dev)

- input tools (e.g. https://www.google.com/inputtools/)

- text comparison tools (e.g. https://text-compare.com/)

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

#2

Post by hobr » Sun, Jan 02, 2022, 3:39 PM UTC

I find myself using Rubular (https://rubular.com/) quite often for experimenting with regular expressions.

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#3

Post by aent » Sun, Jan 02, 2022, 3:54 PM UTC

I use ratingraph.com quite a lot for seeing the TV-show season trends and if something's worth watching

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#4

Post by LinuxBender » Sun, Jan 02, 2022, 4:00 PM UTC

There are many tools mostly scripts for converting IP addresses, CIDR blocks, aggregating CIDR blocks and ranges, calculating netmasks and much more. Most of those tools are written for IPv4. I have not seen many of them written to calculate the same things for IPv6 or even convert existing IPv4 networks to fit into IPv6 networks.

If someone went back and forked or rewrote all those C, Perl and Python scripts into modern code then perhaps adoption of IPv6 would be slightly higher as network engineers would have more tools in their hands to manage and assign network configurations. Even better, if there was a public git repo that tracked all the older projects and the evolution to newer code in one place I think the adoption of usage would be really high.

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#5

Post by ivankuz » Sun, Jan 02, 2022, 4:13 PM UTC

I'm using CyberChef (https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/) quite a lot for different tasks.

I love the simplicity of writing a program in mere minutes and distributing it with a single link.

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#6

Post by higgins » Sun, Jan 02, 2022, 4:15 PM UTC

I use followupthen for fast email reminders. Clears the inbox and perfect for inbox zero! https://www.followupthen.com/

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#7

Post by adictator » Sun, Jan 02, 2022, 4:21 PM UTC

I use mint.com to consolidate all my financial details. But it is so buggy. Every time I access it seems to generate all stats from scratch, which means that it has no idea about accounts I have closed, renamed, moved etc.

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#8

Post by adictator » Sun, Jan 02, 2022, 4:22 PM UTC

I use https://nimbletext.com/live to generate/convert commands from/to csv etc. It has been extremely useful for my regular work.

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#9

Post by freddref » Sun, Jan 02, 2022, 4:22 PM UTC

I built a simple email API that I use frequently for notifications and reports. https://batsign.me

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#10

Post by softwaredoug » Sun, Jan 02, 2022, 4:32 PM UTC

A better way to keep up with Github

I don't want email notifications spamming Github. I want a smarter feed of things I should care about and need to keep up with to do my work. PRs I probably need to review, Issues related to what I work on, etc... I haven't found a great way to do this, maybe others have ideas?