I'd like something that eases in reverse engineering websites. Maybe it could record the screen, JS console, and HTTP requests, and enable interactive playback of that.
Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
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Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#22A 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?
I don't know if it covers your whole list, but github offers RSS feeds for a lot of functionality.
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#23I want an automated work timeline tool. There are things I do that are semantically linked, grouped by timing. For example:
I get an issue in Jira "enable AWS feature for project X".
I search for AWS and Terraform documentation on those subjects.
I edit code on a feature branch named for the Jira issue.
I save links and notes into my Emacs org-roam knowledge base.
I test the new feature.
I submit a PR.
I edit documentation to support the new feature.
I add to the architectural decisions for the team and the project.
I close the Jira ticket.
Why? The more data the better. Being able to search for "AWS S3 policies" and get information from all the bits my brain "touched" to implement something. This is also something that might help those team members who are less likely to correctly document or record their work.
Now imagine that, but for a team. This is a half-finished idea, born mostly from a desire to link my Firefox bookmarks' tags and the tags in my org-roam knowledgebase.
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#24CyberChef (https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/) has almost everything I need. It is described as "The Cyber Swiss Army Knife".
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#25Using: - rot13/rotN - hex to ascii conversion - multiple timers at the same time (one in 5 minutes, one in 7, one in 10, one in 15 for example) - translation, mostly for japanese/english. I use google translate and deepl - REPLs/playgrounds, when I want to test something in a programming language without installing it - specific video conversion, usually to post a .mp4 on Twitter. This could and should be a shell scr…
Out of curiosity, what do you use rot for so regularly?
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#26A 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?
Doesn't the GitHub dashboard (the page you see when you login) show you that? Not sure if it covers all your use cases but it's been improving lately.
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#27A 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?
Doesn't the GitHub dashboard (the page you see when you login) show you that? Not sure if it covers all your use cases but it's been improving lately.
When I go there for my work, for example, I see notifications _for every repo I've ever interacted with_. I would prefer it be a bit smarter, like focus in on most important repos / notifications.
I want kind of like a priority inbox of important stuff, and then a secondary inbox of stuff to ignore...
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#28CyberChef ( https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ ) has almost everything I need. It is described as "The Cyber Swiss Army Knife".
Seconded. And you can download the source and run it locally as well (see the top left).
Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
#29https://dateful.com/ especially the Time Zone Converter, has been pretty useful for me
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#30I use a JSON formatting tool a lot (https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/). I do wonder sometimes about pasting sensitive data into sites like this, and what they might be doing with it.
Strange in a way, that companies spend so much effort restricting how we handle sensitive data, and then you copy and paste it into any website with an input box and no one seems to care. Fingers crossed and all that.
These sites are like camera phones when it comes to data. Everyone pretends they don't exist and can't copy data; that our security measures all work, just because.
Also, RGB to HEX. I'm always looking to convert one to the other, or choose similar colors to one I'm working with. The sites I use (at the top of Google) are always lacking in some ways.