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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?
#832So many. Every time I encounter a task that is repetitive and has room for automation, I try to make a custom tool. It’s so easy these days. That doesn’t mean building a serviceable app is easy though.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#833A frustration at trying to keep track of my families requests for shopping grew into https://nimblist.app https://github.com/tmnrtn/nimblist-selfhost
I've also built a web based tool to track my partners business cashflow which I'm in the process of making available for self hosting
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#834A dashboard to see what my local commercial free radio station (89.3 The Current) in Minnesota is playing. It shows how often tracks are played, track and artist play history as well as some other fun lookups and visualizations. https://theundercurrent.fm
This is cool! I was sad to see that kexplorer.org site no longer exists. :( I've been thinking about getting something like this up for a small Seattle station space101fm.org.
Yeah, me too. KEXP has a public facing API that could be easily used to create a new KEXPlorer.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#835A dashboard to see what my local commercial free radio station (89.3 The Current) in Minnesota is playing. It shows how often tracks are played, track and artist play history as well as some other fun lookups and visualizations. https://theundercurrent.fm
Very interesting! How does it work?
The main worker is a .Net API with Hangfire that hits a public facing API from the radio station. That data is stored in a MySQL database that feeds a React dashboard front end.
There's some caching that happens behind the scenes to help with some of the large data crunching.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#836oof, a ton of them, here are a few that passed my minimum quality standards and made public: a video compression service (inspired by 8mb.video) [0], a music player that gets songs from a specific repository for Geometry Dash [1], a screenshot tool "for crappy OSes" (windows) [2], spaghetti C code that prints "i love you" to stdout [3], more spaghetti code [4], and a speedhack cheat for singleplayer games on Linux [5]
[0] https://github.com/Jotalea/keiryo
[1] https://github.com/Jotalea/nong-player-gtk
[2] https://github.com/Jotalea/crapshot
[3] https://github.com/Jotalea/miscellaneous/blob/main/iloveyou....
[4] https://github.com/Jotalea/miscellaneous/blob/main/password....
[5] https://github.com/Jotalea/miscellaneous/blob/main/speedhack...
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#837I've always wanted my own VW diagnostic tool suite, and between tooling that was released in public on GitHub ( https://github.com/kartoffelpflanze/ODIS-project-explorer ) and my own research from years ago, it always seemed straightforward but too tedious to execute on. Claude did a great job making something useful, https://github.com/bri3d/mcd-diag-rs , and now I don't have to find a Windows machine or remember a…
elaborate on the home automation pls
I used the usual stack of HomeAssistant, Frigate, and a bazillion glue connectors to consolidate devices that were previously cloud apps on my phone.
For example, previously I used the Frigate web UI over VPN to access my cameras, but I instead had Claude help set up go2rtc to push the video to HomeKit. I used the Eufy app for my doorbell, which I was instead able to integrate into HomeAssistant and then push to HomeKit as well, and I was also able to integrate some TP-Link Kasa plugs with HomeAssistant too.
This is all stuff I could have done relatively easily myself, but I hate nothing more than wading through horribly documented disparate configuration systems (I do that enough all day), so having Claude to do it for me is what unlocked it actually getting done.
I also added on to some custom one-offs like an ESP32-based controller for my kid's RGB LED nightlight for fun, although that stuff was more hand-coded since I find it enjoyable.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#838I have built :
- a GUI terminal-based Markdown previewer called "leaf": https://github.com/RivoLink/leaf
- and a lightweight AI automation framework called "flow": https://github.com/RivoLink/flow
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#839I made an absolutely essential tool which is a “Trump bingo” game.. makes following his tweets more tolerable
https://wtf-fantasy.com/
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#840Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are correct: git 2.54 supports multiple hooks via a the git repo and global configuration files. Git-multi-hook predates that, but I updated it to use the new 2.54 config-based format. The significant advantage of git-multi-hook is that they all run in parallel. I run eight hooks on precommit, so parallelism is a big win. I will update the README to make note. Thanks!
git-hook documentation says that hook events can be configured to run in parallel.
Here's what gemini says about running hooks in parallel:
> Native Git traditionally executes hooks sequentially. However, you can achieve parallel execution by leveraging dedicated third-party hook managers or using built-in shell background processing
.. and that's what git-multi-hook is: a third-party hook manager, that uses shell background processing :)