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* Converting music files dropped into a folder to a format supported by my car (on a USB stick)
* Detecting HDMI connection (connect/disconnect) and switching audio outputs based on this
* Allowing ufw to whitelist by dynamic DNS hosts
* Zero downtime deployments for web projects (written well before Laravel's Envoyer/Forge but with similar functionality)
* Detect backup HDD and prompt for password / auto-mount when connected
a youtube downloading and playlist system that uses yt-dlp and newsboat rss feeds of my subscriptions.
Thing is, when I create a program for personal use, I go ahead and make it available for the rest of the world because why not?
I’m going to be building software to manage my kids schools science fair project for next year that I’ll also share with the rest of the world.
I personally wrote:
* Scripts to command my window manager (i3): move workspace to other screen, create a temporary workspace, move a window to a new workspace * CLI scripts to send an ascii version of my calendar to Telegram / Slack * Scripts to generate complex transactions for the accounting of my consultancy company (eg. salary with the social taxes distributed to the right accounts). I use Ledger, so I also use its Python library to read all the transactions and output benefits/expenses/... graphs with matplotlib. Thanks to the matplotlib-backend-kitty project, I can have the graphs directly in my terminal. * Scripts to send convert ePub/mobi and send PDFs to my reMarkable, also a fake printer that directly sends the PDF to the reMarkable * A Pomodoro service with the possibility to subscribe to specific events, eg. play a gong sound when a pomodoro starts
A social media client to my and a friend presences: interacting with followers, more with the more important ones, proposing new ones to follow or some to unfollow (and doing that in bulk), and a few other handy shortcuts. It runs serverless crashing maybe once a month for always novel reasons and costs me like 60$ (AWS costs) and a few hours of programming every month.
Do you mind sharing the code?
Sounds dumb but is surprisingly useful.
Most recent program: I wanted time-lapse photos of some potted plants I'm trying to grow. So I stuck QR codes on the pots and take a picture of each one each day with my phone. That goes to Google Photos, and a cron job scans new photos, recognizes the QR code, and copies the photos into directories for each plant with filenames that sort chronologically. Most of the plants died. I am a better programmer than gardene…
Wouldn't it be easier to just use org-mode's capture functionality (https://orgmode.org/manual/Capture.html)? I.e.
(setq org-capture-templates
'(("j" "Journal" (file+olp+datetree "~/journal.org") "* %?")) ;Add more templates as needed
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c c") #'org-capture)
When starting my freelance career back in 2012 I had a pretty simple idea on how to track time using only google calendar and this tiny web app I wrote. Used it literally every workday since then, and even got a colleague (another freelancer) to use it with the quote “the first time tracker to ever work for me, and I’ve tried a lot!”. He is still using it last time I checked. So I guess it is actually used by one mor…
But deliberately not sharing your creation, keeping things idiosyncratic and a bit chaotic also has it's charm :) The bliss of knowing that you don't have to worry about code quality or users asking for new features!
I wrote some simple tools, e.g. a note-taking app, and scripts to organize photo's. I also wrote a time tracker :) but I open sourced that one (it's called timetagger).
It is missing autocomplete, that is a work in progress.
I just don't want to deal with the burden of answering to issues and tickets, so it remains as my personal toy.