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[1] makes it easy for sellers to collect and showcase genuine customer reviews on Instagram. just shipped the initial version. still working for the launch.
All it does right now is it takes a CV, adds branding and standardises its format. I built it as a sort of sweetener for recruiters with the plan of adding more tools.
I used chatgpt to extract and re-word the candidates experiences though and it does tend to hallucinate, so not practically useful.
-edit seems to be down but will have to wait to fix it
Free, unlimited, no registration, no ads.
A minimalist MP3 player for my grandmother. The whole user interface is a single physical button on her desk : - ON : indefinitely play all MP3 files randomly - OFF : stop playing The longest task was to find her favourite pieces of music from my aunts and uncles. https://github.com/remipch/radio_colette
https://github.com/turol/valoserveri It's for controlling DMX colored lights over network. It takes UDP packets (and later Websocket messages) and turns them into DMX protocol packets which get sent over USB serial adapter to the DMX wire. It's a rewrite of a previous node.js version which had bitrotted. I think I made the MVP in about 7 hours during one saturday afternoon. Finishing it up took a few weeks more of ev…
// put some magic into packet
I had access to a Windows server VM at a previous job that was commissioned for a piece of work. The actual work was then stopped, but the IT folks never decommissioned the VM so I had a nice little server on the local network to play around with. It didn't have Internet access so I was somewhat limited in what I could do with it. I ended up building a hacky internal IIS/PHP web app (I guess these days one would call…
https://github.com/checkly/headless-recorder - got ~15k GitHub stars. - AWS copied it. - We deprecated it as better stuff came on the market with @playwright/test's codegen. But I did code the initial version in a weekend. Was called Puppeteer Recorder then.
Congrats! I remember when this came out. It was very cool. What did AWS do?
Project, design, implementation, copywriting, bought vps, installed, secured, and configured RedHat, apache, tomcat, the website (a Java-based portal system I used to build together with a team of 5), configured DNS, go-live, attend to the press conference.
No errors, no known security issues. Spotless.
I wrote the British Placename Mapper ( https://placenames.rtwilson.com/ ) last weekend, and it got a bit of traction on Twitter here in Britain over the last week. It lets you search for parts of British place names, and will plot the places that match on an interactive map, so you can search for places that start with 'great' or end with 'burgh' or contain 'sea' (or you can use regexes for more complex stuff). Peopl…