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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?
#512Many! Mostly browser extensions.
* Highlight do-follow links.
* Spoof GPS - I live in a non-english speaking country. Sometimes Google sets my location to my gps, despite having an english vpn. This is an attempt to correct that.
* Local translate, rather than sending everything to Google.
* (non browser) An SSH selection screen, so I don't need to remember the IPs
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#513Mostly I was not an "I have a script for that" guy before AI, except for the occasional VERY simple or VERY high ROI thing. Now I've got more oddball scripts that do things I couldn't be bothered to automate before, including: workarounds for buggy software, stitching tmux together with other tools, automating common operations so I don't have to use the god awful GitHub UI, etc.
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#514https://calcal.eu - A tool I built to plan my gear list and calorie intake for various multi day outdoor activities
https://github.com/LukaWe/espCoinWatch - espCoinWatch, an ESP8266-based Bitcoin/Crypto Ticker with Weather Support.
https://github.com/LukaWe/LocalExifGeoMap LocalExifGeoMap - privacy-focused, browser-based tool to visualize and analyze GPS data from a batch of photos. generate interactive maps, heatmaps, elevation profiles, and trip statistics. etc.
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#516I was always experimenting with different agents and models, and I wanted to track how much I use eg codex vs opencode vs hermes, and which models I use.
So I made, kind of last.fm/waka-code for agents where I track (anonymous) usage per project
here is the example of my profile: https://clankerlog.ai/kodisha
Data is fully anonymous, all I collect is (agent, model, project name [can be mapped to something else to hide the true name]) and everything is opt-in by default (per project)
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#517Oh man - I've created more than I can count at this point, but here's some of them:
- A chat-based web app for ad-hoc telemetry data visualization. - A firefox-extension meeting transcriber - A personal chief of staff - A web-based personal finance budgeting tool (no AI at runtime, obviously) - An iOS and Android app for solo work with a dead man switch if timely check-ins don't happen - A custom dotfile/machine config manager that works the way *I* want - A bookmarking tool/web clipper that puts together daily content-only collections from what I've been clipping and send them to my Kindle. This one I actually intended to make a SaaS, but meh. Being able to put together quite big projects by myself for myself in a reasonable amount of time is such a joy.
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#518Finally got my glove 80 split keyboard to work the way I want. Love typing on this thing :D
Tell us more! Did you create a tool to change keymaps?
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#520I've been making a set of local- and files-first iOS apps for myself - Photo Gallery, Music and Contacts. I use Linux on my computer and an iPhone and wasn't happy having to use a cloud to sync my data between my devices. Syncthing/Synctrain + my apps allow me to keep everything on my private network, without ever touching a server or having to self-host something like Immich. https://j23n.com/public/posts/2026/local…
Same, but for android. My best one so far is my own launcher/home screen. Works great.