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And of course hundreds of little command line utilities from 1 liners to hundreds of lines of Rust or Python scripts.
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I wish I could shift my thinking to do this. I've been a web developer for 17 years and love programming. But any time I've tried to build my own projects or products, it's usually a revamp of an existing product or game, and I quickly lose interest. I lack the ability to see everyday "issues" that could be resolved with programming. But if someone asks me to solve an issue with a program, I could probably come up wi…
>>> I quickly lose interest Working on self-directed projects didn't come naturally to me either and I had to learn how to get over this motivation issue. It's taken me 10 years of working on side projects to finally be able to figure out which things I will actually finish vs. which ones I just like the idea of and will invariably give up on. It's some combination of what do I think is useful to myself or others, wh…
I once made a software in form of a digital book in Java it was more like personal motivational book on how I would start my business.
I later converted the software into an app and edited the content to fit an audience, surprisingly the software was a success https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=business_ideas...
I later created a few games with Unity and Godot which I shared with friends. They were pretty interesting 2d platformer games. I never uploaded these games but some of my friends still play the color shooter game I made with Godot.
As my programming got better, I started creating slightly advanced software like this music player that I had been using for a while as my default music player. I decided to upload the software on 6th April 2022 for public use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=media.mp3playe...
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> * A replacement front-end for "ffmpeg", see above I have one of these too... It's kind of frightening how hard ffmpeg is to use without some kind of custom frontend. I have probably dozens of bash/python scripts to invoke ffmpeg for different common tasks. - One to extract audio - One to extract all the individual streams from a container - A couple different transcoding scripts - One specifically for gifs - One to…
ffmpeg arguments generally compose pretty well, although it's powerful enough that (as other comments have mentioned) for special use cases you do often have to look things up. If you can remember 3 or 4 things you can do most stuff without looking anything up, however: -i -> input file -vcodec / -acodec -> video and audio codec; "copy" specifies copying the input stream -vn / -an / -sn -> disable the video / audio /…
Yes, I tend to write small programs like that all the time, it's one of the reasons I like computers, to write programs to do things. A few I remember: The FinalKey, hardware device that acts like a keyboard, is a password manager. OSGG, a lander game I actually want to play. Chromogen, a bash script that generates lovely static image albums. "sovs" at work, which fetches a fresh source tree because our procedure req…
Had bought his book to get into the habit, hated wasting so much paper, so decided to build a web based day planner with simple note taking.
https://notes.probabletrain.com/
It was a handy excuse to try out YJS, as I (for no good reason) wanted it to sync live without conflicts, despite it not really being a multiplayer application. It can be opened across tabs on the same machine with updates propagating live across tabs, or by signing in with Google, can be opened across devices/browsers (with live syncing via websockets). I needed this so I could sync notes between my work and personal laptops.
Some other features:
- Keyboard friendly (but very mouse unfriendly)
- Markdown 'preview': typing markdown adds styles without changing what you typed. For example, '#' will still be visible in headings. The only markdown supported is headings, bullet points, and inline code.
- Good luck getting any use out of it on mobile
- Is a PWA, so I can open it on Mac with CMD+Space, 'notes', Enter
It does exactly what I need it to do and nothing more, and is extremely user-unfriendly.