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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#302oh boy, lots. i made a trainer that coaches you in nondual philosophy by quoting from the Upaniṣad; a Vedic Aspectarian that calculates your chart and analyses your transits; a better I Ching program that utilizes a time variable to throw the hexagrams; and then there’s our research software. none of this would have been possible without AI.
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#304I got tired of all the quirks when opening CSV files in Excel, so I built a fast and lean viewer for CSV - at least this was what initially planned.
Later I find the technique I developed to instantly load arbitrary large CSV files can be generalized to work with any format, with an incremental parser combinator. This means the tool can read from not only files, but any stream-oriented sources like a pipe.
I did used AI in development but it didn't speed up the process very much, as I found a lot of time was spent on the deign of an intuitive and consistent UX. The project is still not very production ready, but in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/Verticalysis/Hitomi
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#305I've made a number of ceramic molds for slumping fused glass into bowls. As well as wooden templates for ceramic mugs. I've devised a few carrying tools to move glass frit paintings from my studio down to my barn where the kilns sit without spilling the glass. Or were you only asking about digital tools? I haven't really made any of those. Making physical tools feels much more satisfying these days.
I’m fixing up an old Bridgeport-style 5hp mill and converting it to CNC. I got it working enough to make myself a fly cutter out of scrap steel. :)
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#306I've made a number of ceramic molds for slumping fused glass into bowls. As well as wooden templates for ceramic mugs. I've devised a few carrying tools to move glass frit paintings from my studio down to my barn where the kilns sit without spilling the glass. Or were you only asking about digital tools? I haven't really made any of those. Making physical tools feels much more satisfying these days.
Can you fire ceramic in a house oven? Or do you need something more industrial?
You can do interesting things with microwave kilns these days, I wonder if they get hot enough for ceramics? They can melt copper, I believe, so they’d be in the ball park.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#307I built a terminal app for myself that conflates worktrees & tabs, runs every pane through a terminal multiplexer, lets me join in from my phone and generally makes me happy.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#308Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#309I get annoyed that existing tools have limitations so I fix them or build my own:
- I didn't like that I can't use my newsreader on my laptop and my phone as easily so I built https://github.com/mjc/nntp-proxy. that turned out to be really hard to benchmark once it got fast enough so I am working on an nntp benchmark tool https://github.com/mjc/nntpbench. both can do request queuing because the nntp RFC says servers have to accept as many requests as they can, and then process them in order. so if your client doesn't do that, you can use more connections to the proxy and it will queue for you. it also routes stateless commands to whatever server is least-loaded, and will switch to stateful mode if your client needs it.
- I didn't like how expensive AWS Transfer Family is, so I built this https://github.com/elixir-ssh/sftpd and then rewrote it in rust (alpha) https://github.com/mjc/sftp-s3-rs. this shook out a bunch of bugs in russh, which was fun. - didn't like that there's no par2 implementation in rust so I built this https://github.com/mjc/par2rs (I'm too lazy to move to tape backup so it works pretty ok for dvd/bluray parity), unfinished but good enough for my use. - same deal for 7zip in rust. https://github.com/mjc/r7z - a medication tracker thing that uses claude/codex/copilot to scan the bottles and parse them as well as identify pills etc. works better than you'd think but I'm not planning on releasing it for a while.
fixed or fixing bugs in: - exqlite (it should not crash anymore and should return busy a lot less often.) - russh - swift-nio-ssh (this might be why codex's remote can't connect to your ssh box) https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-ssh/pull/236 - NanoKVM (working on making the streaming for this a lot more fluid)
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#310It's dumb, but.... I made a scraper that searches through all the news and finds anything 'war' related. It then summarizes it and give me that new in the Star Wars crawl with music.
The force is with you, my friend