Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

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explainshell

#Shortcuts #Text Expander #Mac 109 social mentions

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Decoder

Https://james.darpinian.com/decoder/ to look up error codes. Started with OpenGL, then added Windows error codes, Linux, HTTP, and Vulkan.

#QR Code #QR Code Generator #Analytics 2 social mentions

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Raycast

- etc. Because they're in Raycast, they're super accessible to me — I simply hit CMD + Space, type the first word of what I need and hit Enter. Loving it! [0]: https://raycast.com.

#Productivity #App Launcher #Mac 35 social mentions

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Focus

#Time Tracking #Tool #Time Management 24 social mentions

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espanso

#Writing Tools #Personal Productivity #Automation 96 social mentions

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Streamlit

#Developer Tools #Application And Data #Productivity 172 social mentions

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Cardapio

#Productivity #Content Creators #Video Editing

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PKI.js

I have several networking devices around the country with OpenWrt on them (for example, at my mom's house). They serve different needs, with different selections of packages installed, and are not of the same hardware, so keeping them up to date proved a hassle eventually. I chose to wrap some primitive Python around OpenWrt's excellent ImageBuilder that helps me keep a declarative build configuration around in an INI-style file, and (most of the time, when point releases are released) only dial up a single version number variable to rebuild all images in parallel. The flashing afterwards I haven't automated, but that might be too much of a footgun anyway. If you feel like taking a look, here's the source: https://johannes.truschnigg.info/code/openwrt_autobuild/ --- While I was responsible for running the internal CAs at $prevjob, I wanted to give (human) users a convenient and secure means to generate and submit CSRs. I implemented a browser-based CSR generator based on the great work if https://pkijs.org - a demo variant of this internal portal is online at https://johannes.truschnigg.info/csr/ and might actually be of use to someone else :) --- Several years ago also at $prevjob, I was looking for a reliable way to do PostgreSQL WAL archiving without the clunky shellscripts floating around in documentation and on Wikis, and implemented a little C program to do that job. While today you're probably using something like wal-g or other advanced tools that consume the WAL for replication and DR purposes, you may still want to have a program that does one thing, and one thing well, and that is making sure WAL segments get copied from location A to location B, without much overhead, period. That would be it: https://johannes.truschnigg.info/code/pg_archive_wal_segment-2.0.0/.

#Javascript UI Libraries #JS Library #Front-End Frameworks 1 social mentions

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Kontxt

I made https://kontxt.io to highlight, share, organize, and discover the best parts of the World Wide Web. People I share articles with now know the exact parts that are relevant and they can quickly skip between the highlights and we can discuss inline to maintain context. It lets me and other people publicly share what we highlight in an easily searchable way so you can find quality content from trusted sources. Want to see what resources other people like you, in this case programmers, found useful and shared. Boom! Now you can. Starting to look into something new that you’re unfamiliar with, say investing, wouldn’t it be great to see what resources other investors previously found useful? Boom! Now you can. Now imagine having this tool at work with all your super smart go-workers? Boom! Now you can. It works for PDFs, too. It’s just a wonderful research and planning tool to save, share, organize, and discuss digital information, which is a huge time saver and productivity booster. Step 1: Google, Step 2: Kontxt, Step 3: Success. :) It’s really a multi-purpose overlay for the entire World Wide Web with unlimited use-cases. And I’ve recently gained access To OpenAI and have some cool AI stuff coming for preemptive highlights and auto generated reading lists based on interests and past reading history. I built this tool for myself. I’m an avid reader always looking to grow my skills. If this is you, too, sign up and let’s learn and grow together.

#Productivity #Content Creators #Video Editing 2 social mentions

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Deck for Reddit

I built a Reddit desktop client called `rdddeck`, because I wasn't a big fan of its modern UI: difficult to navigate, large negative spaces (wasteful), pop-up like behavior when opening a discussion, etc. - https://rdddeck.com It is compact like Tweetdecks, and supports multi-accounts. It gives me an overview of all my subs at a glance.

#Productivity #Content Creators #Video Editing 13 social mentions

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Synergy

#Mouse Tools #Productivity #Software KVM 281 social mentions

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Matrix.org

I built entire service [0], because I wanted to chat in matrix (protocol [1]). It's quite hard to selfhost it properly, so I ended with lots of automatization, based on open source stack. Now I can setup a homeserver in ~20 with lots of additions and customizations. [0] https://etke.cc [1] https://matrix.org.

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging 582 social mentions

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Linktree

It seems like an alternative to https://linktr.ee.

#Link Management #Social Media Tools #URL Shortener 138 social mentions

I found myself ending up with 50+ browser tabs regularly - full of tabs I want to read later. So I made https://closetab.email that lets me mark and close those tabs. They all get delivered to my inbox every monday.

#Email #Productivity #Chrome Extensions 14 social mentions

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Recut

I had this same problem with making screencasts! Ended up building a Mac app [0] to do basically this, find the silence and chop it out. I started off with a script too but realized I wanted more control over the timing, and the ability to manually designate some parts to keep/cut. Initially I only exported a cut list, so you could do the final tweaks in ScreenFlow or Final Cut or whatever. Now I’m slowly building out more in-app editing features and some other automations. 0: https://getrecut.com.

#Content Creators #Video Editing #Video 29 social mentions

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HNdeck

Http://hndeck.sawirstudio.com viewing HN side by side.

#Productivity #News #Marketing 1 social mentions