In the early days of rails I wrote a monkey punch for Active Record that'd raise a fatal exception if any query lacked a limit clause or returned more than a couple 100 rows. Just a couple lines of obvious stuff, but you wouldn't believe how much impact committing that to a repo back then would have.
Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
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#82In an MA program in biblical studies, I realized that the best way to understand what words mean in context is to see how they're used in similar contexts. To do that, you've got to be able to find similar contexts. I didn't like the solutions available from the major software vendors, but it turns out there's a whole bunch of tagged data that's openly licensed. So I built a webapp that has all the search functionali…
I like the layout of this. Do you plan on adding any other versions of the text? BibleHub also shows multiple versions of the text, but has a wide variety of translations to choose from. Though their layout isn't quite this elegant
Thanks, I have put a non-trivial amount of thought into making the interface friendly. I appreciate the compliment :)
I've got a staging environment at dev.parabible.com with other versions (it's a bit rougher and can break, but it supports searching in Greek along with a bunch of other translations). I've also added Apostolic Fathers there (which, I believe, is the first place that Ap. Fathers have been available in English and original language in parallel for free anywhere).
I'd love to get versions like the ESV, NIV, NASB... but they're all copyrighted and when I've spoken to publishers about licensing they want me to pay (and I'm a grad student with no income). There are some other free translations I could add (like the KJV, etc.), but I'm aiming at a scholarly audience, who I think don't care about most of the translations that you'll find for free (the KJV is one exception there, tbh).
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#83I've built a platform that helps furniture factory hire workers. Given that the typical factory worker is not that tech savvy, the platform did not see a lot of users, around 5k the last time I checked. Nevertheless some people found job using it. Everything using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS and JS.
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#84So far most impactful thing I've built is web app for police in my country. When I had issues with police, I noticed that they used my app to look up my details. It was somewhat funny. Didn't tell them, I don't think they would believe me.
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#85The thing that puts the title of the reddit link into the reddit URL. Massively boosted our SEO.
At least that's the most visible thing I've done.
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#86GetCalFresh.org. Way easier way to apply for food stamps. Felt good to have left after 6 years going from helping 1 person get help to over a million. Still going strong.
Also lots of strangler pattern iterations! That was fun.
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#87Not sure if it counts as building something concrete (I have been programming commercially for ~20 years so I'm pretty sure there's something if I dig) but does Stack Overflow impact count? I have over 6,000 answers posted and a calculated reach/impact of over 50 million people. That sometimes makes me smile and feel that I have contributed something.
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#88First implementation of CAPTCHA circa 1997
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#89https://flexbox.help/ I get a lot of people saying it was very useful.
Oh I like this a lot. This a helpful little tool.
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#90The 2nd most used analysis tool on NSANet in response to the 9/11 commission report that the agencies weren't sharing data. https://twitter.com/masonrothman/status/1521407937985404928
Spyspace and the Mitch Hedgeberg Quote Generator pages were a hoot!