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Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by chriswarbo »

lewisjoe wrote: post #157

I made a chrome extension that lets me close tabs that I want to read later & delivers them to my inbox every monday - https://closetab.email I also made my blog sync with my google docs - https://hexo.press I knew both of those would be helpful for others as well, so I made a service out of each of them and open sourced the code - https://github.com/joelewis

I made a Chrome extension which avoids duplicate tabs (based on their URL). http://chriswarbo.net/git/chrome-duplicate-tab-detector

I made it when developing Drupal sites, whose test output end up with lots of temporary HTML pages (response snapshots).

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by bullen »

I made my own HTTP app. server and distributed JSON database: https://github.com/tinspin/rupy

On top of this I have made many projects and I still use all of them today even 10 years later, some favourite:

http://fuse.rupy.se (multiplayer system)

http://tentacle.rupy.se (digg)

http://sprout.rupy.se (wordpress)

http://talk.binarytask.com (reddit)

I also made my own cloud service both with my own hardware and on top of GCP:

http://host.rupy.se (raspberry 2 cluster)

http://host.binarytask.com (GCP)

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by GuB-42 »

https://github.com/GuB-42/dupfiletree

A tool to find identical files.

Compared to other tools that do similar things, it can also find identical directories, handles archives and is designed to work with millions of files efficiently.

It works is two steps: first make a list of files and checksums with xmd5 and analyze it with dupfiletree.

Made for personal use, not documented, designed for performance first, stable enough for me but use at your own risk.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by Sean-Der »

I started (but many many others contributed) to the Go implementation of WebRTC Pion WebRTC https://github.com/pion/webrtc if you aren't familiar with WebRTC it is really amazing tech. Check out some of the projects on https://github.com/pion/awesome-pion. Stuff like https://github.com/giongto35/cloud-game continues to blow my mind :)

Along the way I worked on a Go implemenation of DTLS that gets used on its own a bit https://github.com/pion/dtls

In another life I wrote Therac https://github.com/sean-der/therac. A PHP debugger that was viewable from a browser. I was a remote at the time (2015) and it was a great tool to use with others.

I also wrote fail2web https://github.com/sean-der/fail2web a web frontend to fail2ban

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by tiger3 »

recursivedoubts wrote: post #44

I created intercooler.js in 2013 so I could do AJAX in HTML: https://intercoolerjs.org Last year I removed the jquery dependency and cleaned it up based on a lot of lessons that I learned, renaming it to hmtx: https://htmx.org Same idea: extends/complete HTML as a hypertext so you can build more advanced UI within the original hypermedia web model, with a cleaner implementation. Part of that cleanup involved me pulli…

Thank you for intercooler and htmx! It’s a godsend for someone like me that doesn’t want to get too deep in the weeds with frontend dev but still get some dynamic UI actions and lazy loading/click loading done.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by zachwill »

wenbin wrote: post #136

Early 2017, I built Listen Notes [1] , so I can search podcast episodes by keywords and listen to individual podcast episodes without subscribing to the entire podcast. A few years ago, most podcast apps assume you wanted to subscribe to podcasts first then listen. Maybe I’m not a typical podcast listener. I don’t like subscribing to podcasts. I just want to listen to individual episodes then move on. Similar to cons…

I'm a huge fan of Listen Notes!

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by fredsted »

• https://webhook.site - for testing webhooks, evolved into a SaaS for building workflows from http requests and emails

• https://instadj.com - simple app for making youtube playlists, wanted a simple app for playing music at parties (example: https://instadj.com/wam)

Both are open source.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by kamyarg »

Recently started working on a command line tool to easily record things I learnt.

https://github.com/kamyar/til

You can install it using "pip install til-cli", feedback/suggestions most welcome. :)

Was inspired by Simon Willison's TIL Page

One Year of TILs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27017604

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by jftuga »

I am more of a Sys Admin but really enjoy programming and automation. I'm also open to exploring new opportunities - JohnTaylor at gmail.

https://github.com/jftuga/sqs_clipboard - Use AWS SQS as a clipboard to copy and paste across different systems and platforms

https://github.com/jftuga/gofwd - A cross-platform TCP port forwarder with Duo 2FA and Geo-IP integration

https://github.com/jftuga/spotprice - Quickly get AWS spot instance pricing

https://github.com/jftuga/ipinfo - Return IP address info including geographic location and distance when given IP address, email address, host name or URL

https://github.com/jftuga/photo_id_resizer - Resize photo ID images using face recognition technology

https://github.com/jftuga/tcpscan - A fast, simple, multi-threaded cross-platform IPv4 TCP port scanner

https://github.com/jftuga/date_gap_finder - detect date gaps in a CSV file

https://github.com/jftuga/nics - Display information about Network Interface Cards (NICs) - cross-platform

https://github.com/jftuga/deidentify - Deidentify people's names along with pronoun substitution

https://github.com/jftuga/quautomatrics - Command-line automation of Qualtrics™ surveys

https://github.com/jftuga/timeit - A cross-platform CLI tool used to time the duration of the given command

https://github.com/jftuga/dcmp - Compare files within two directory trees for equivalency

https://github.com/jftuga/file-watcher - Monitors a given file location for create, change, rename and delete file events

https://github.com/jftuga/compinfo - Display basic computer info

https://github.com/jftuga/less-Windows - GNU less compiled for Windows 10. Stand-alone version with no dependencies.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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Post by zachwill »

aeroheim wrote: post #75

I wrote a library for animating image backgrounds on the web using After Effects style filters and transitions: https://aeroheim.github.io/midori/ It's basically a post-processing pipeline implemented with Three.js and WebGL using a few shaders that I wrote. I created it primarily because I needed it for one of my current projects, so the use case is fairly niche and mostly only relevant for stuff like creative codin…

Wow, awesome work on this!
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