I'm a consultant who fills out a timecard every week. I made an integration for Toggl (https://track.toggl.com) that summarizes my week, and makes it easier to transfer my time into the timecard. It's mostly for my personal use, though a few coworkers also use it.
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#12I self-host everything, and I wrote an authentication framework, which I call "Fancy Auth". It is configurable by YAML and works like a proxy in front of all my web apps. It's like a glorified Basic Auth, but can connect to LDAP, htpasswd files, can login with QR Code and Magic Link or via SSH.
I plan to release it some day though.
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#13I wrote my own dns lookup tool in bash because most of the online ones are terrible or can't be customized. I made my own IP finder site because most of the online ones are terrible ( https://justyourip.com/ )
Ruurtjan from NsLookup.io here. Would love to hear your feedback, since you probably can name a thing or two to improve :)
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#14I wrote a web tool that automatically syncs all my brokerage transactions from multiple brokerages (either using their APIs or web scraping). It also grabs daily closing prices of my stocks and relevant foreign exchange rates from public sources, and then presents me with a bunch of graphs that I find relevant. It does my capital gains tax calculations every year.
It took me probably 6 months of hacking on it in my free time.
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#15I created a program that allows me to control the max charge level of my laptop battery on linux, and persists the change through reboot. Written in rust, and I use it several times per week.
I designed it for my system, but it should work on any linux system with a battery, kernel version 5.4+, and systemd.
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#16I wrote this program for doing my vertigo exercises.
ruby -e '5.times {%w(left center right center).each{`say #{_1}`;sleep 30}};`say exercise over`'
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#17I’m travelling around the world and writing program to help me categorize hotels / flights, show availability and weather for my trips.
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#18I spent a week or two creating a trading tool for the popular video game EVE Online. The tool identifies regional arbitrage opportunities between large market hubs and allows me to prioritise the movement of goods to maximise profit while minimising time investment. It also helps me update orders efficiently.
As it provides a decent competitive advantage I have no plans to publicise it, although it is on Github as a portfolio piece.
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#19A few come to mind:
A command line calculator. While it's on github, is really just made for me because I wanted something to do quick math and convert different units.
A note/todo app. Started it's life as just a text file in a git repo, but now has a web front end, a simple TUI front end, and a little backend so it can add repeating tasks or tasks future days when they come along.
I also have a little python script running to control my exterior Hue lights, turning them on at sunset and such. Just added a thing today that turns on the lights in my office to full brightness when I open Zoom. It's nice, but every time I go down the rabbit hole of home automation, my SO rightly gets annoyed at the silliness of it all.
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#20lots.
many of them live in my emacs config...
also, a TUI noaa weather interface, piles of little bespoke automations, etc. None of it's portable, none of it's really meant to be.