I built my own word processor software because word & google docs is way too heavy to my own standards..
Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
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#102My mother refuses to uses computers/smart phones but loves seeing pictures I take. I built PostcardMailer.us to quickly send her/other relatives/friends postcard photos. I got a bunch of weird Tor signups so I turned off new sign ups. But a handful of family and friends have accounts and we send each other postcards. It is the most embarrassingly bad Rails codebase I can claim, but it has Just Worked for 4 years. I d…
Is it a private website, postcardmailer.us ? I am always interested in looking at online to print systems for curiosity. The website is not opening.
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#1031) Semantic search for legal documents. Found it annoying that, as a lawyer, I have to use search engines that require me to guess the keywords that might be used in the documents I'm looking for... as well as to skim through the entire documents the system found in order to judge whether or not they are relevant to my case. 2) Discovering audiobooks I'll enjoy. Someone here on HN mentioned "random sampling" as a gre…
About (1): May I request you to throw some light? Is your reference that the keywords are not synonymized to find equivalents within documents? Help?
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#104My current one is https://limnology.co/ , organizing the top 70k educational youtubers in 20 languages. Youtube's channel discovery is pretty bad, and I wanted an easy way to find new channels about the topics I'm interested in. Still a work in progress as the problem turned out to be a lot harder than I thought.
Nice catalog! YouTube channel discovery is terrible even for people already subscribed to channels. Simply clicking on English -> Photography brought me back to a few people I subscribe to but haven't checked out in over a year. They literally never surface in my recommendations even though I'm subbed.
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#106After my servers and projects have been raided by some fellow Russian cyberthreats and some idiots from 4/8 chan that were persuaded to "the cause", I've come to realize that the state of cyber security and automated cyber defense solutions is basically a charade and utterly useless. All major players in the field oversell their own solutions, and nothing of them works. It's always forensics, and too late to actually…
How effective has this approach been so far?
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#107This is on a significantly smaller scale than most of the comments here, but I was exhausted of having to go through endless essays on smoothies before actually arriving at the recipe/ingredients - so when the lockdown first hit, I spent a few days working on https://choosemysmoothie.com. I don't (and didn't at the time) know how to web scrape, so I manually scoured tons of websites to manually write down ingredients and recipes. It was fun to do, specially since it's been on the back of my mind for a long long time.
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#108My village is divided in four zones, every year they prepare a parade for the village festival and the best one win a prize. The classification is made by a selected jury made by theater director, actors, writers, etc. Every year people that attend the parade complained about the winner being not the best one according to the common taste. So I wrote a web app to permit vote by SMS (nothing fancy). It was a great pro…
May I ask which village? sounds very interesting
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#109You asked for it: https://htmx.org https://hyperscript.org I hated angular when it first came out and couldn't believe what insanity people were willing to put up with, so long as it came from google. (e.g. GWT) I created https://intercoolerjs.org out of frustration with that, and the lack of progress in HTML/hypermedia in general, so I could build a web application I was working on ( https://leaddyno.com , since sol…
Super superficial (?), but the "press and hold" example on https://hyperscript.org/ has a bug (feature? :) in that if you move away the pointer while pressing, then let go, it keeps cycling, and won't stop even if you go back and press and let go again. It will stop if you press outside the button and let go inside, so apparently the actions stack. (On Firefox Linux.)
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#110Encrypted backup to AWS Glacier Deep Archive ($1/TB/month)
https://github.com/mrichtarsky/glacier_deep_archive_backup
And for ErgodoxEZ:
Compress your keymap so you can add more features without hitting the limit
https://github.com/mrichtarsky/ergodox-compress-keymap
Generate Heatmap from your keypresses so you can see whether your layout is optimal