Ask HN: What apps have you ever created to your personal use?

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As it is important to me to reach financial independence, I realized most investors are tracking their portfolios in spreadsheets. As I was focused on dividend growth investing, dividends are high maintenance to track in a spreadsheet, especially for bigger portfolios. So thanks to dogfooding, I’ve been developing a website to track dividend income for the past 8 years. If I wouldn’t be using it, I’d probably have abandoned the project a long time ago.
https://www.digrin.com/ |
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The QR thing is really cool. Love it. I have often wondered how much “hard” data could be stored as images without loss in various environments such as iCloud, whatever Google has and so on.
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Recently I have started started working on an offline Traditional Taiwanese Mandarin Chinese dictionary software for the desktop. I have been studying Taiwanese Mandarin Chinese for a few years now, two years of those in Taiwan at a language center and it has always bugged me that most Chinese dictionary software is
1. mainly focused on Simplified Chinese as it is spoken in Mainland China and Traditional Chinese/the Taiwanese variant is just an afterthought 2. mobile-/tablet-only 3. a website which requires access to the internet/doesn’t integrate well with a traditional desktop-first workflow, or 4. only has Chinese to English, but no monolingual definitions which are preferable for advanced learners Thus I have decided to take things into my own hands and started developing the Traditional Taiwanese Mandarin Chinese dictionary I have always wished for that caters perfectly to my way of studying and my personal workflow. I’ve been dog-fooding it for a few weeks now and it feels great to finally have a tool that makes my studying routine more enjoyable and smoother! Link to the dictionary source code: https://github.com/HalfAnAvocado/willow |
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https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn
It grew out of a distinct segment, virtually historic want: utilizing a QWERTY keyboard, however needing entry to German Umlauts (ä, ö, ü, in addition to ß). Switching keyboard layouts is feasible however exhausting (it is way more nice sticking to 1); utilizing modifier keys is equally tedious, and customized setups break and are not moveable. So this device can do:
that means it not solely replaces Umlauts and Eszett, it additionally is aware of when to not (Poeten), and handles arbitrary compound phrases. Write your textual content, slap all of it into the device, it spits out outcomes immediately. The unique textual content can use various spellings (ou, ae, ue, ss), which is ergonomic. Mixed with instruments like AutohotKey, GUI integration by way of a single keyboard shortcut is feasible. See [0] for the same instance. A distinct segment want I have not but come throughout another person having as effectively! (simply the quantity of textual content explaining what it is all about is saying rather a lot when it comes to specificity…) The device now grew right into a tree-sitter based mostly (== language grammar-aware) textual content manipulation factor, principally for enjoyable. The weird German core continues to be there nevertheless. [0]: https://github.com/alexpovel/betterletter/blob/c19245bf90589… |
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The faster way is to press Option + U and then the letter u for ü or a for ä. Have been using a US keyboard since before this long press feature came over from iOS and it’s way faster that way.
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This is why I stick to layouts with separate keys for ” and the dead-key ¨
Plenty of european layouts with qwerty and the necessary dead keys, that work on every OS. |
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I’ve built a few apps which started out as tools for my own use and later polished + released for public.
– Cone: This started out as a small tool to help me identify the name of the colors of objects around me (i am a red-green colorblind). Now it’s a full fledged color picker app with a Pantone license – https://cone.app – CBVision: That is one other small device for colorblind individuals which shifts the problematic colours to a visual hue for straightforward differentiation – https://cbvisionapp.com/ – Unwind: I made this to assist me with box-breathing – https://unwind.to – LookAway: That is the most recent app that I’ve created to assist me with digital eye pressure. – https://lookaway.app |
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Is the “same-segment-repeat” check across multiple episodes? Or just a single episode has the same segment repeated a few twice, so it works for this specific network?
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https://github.com/AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting Is the library. It was the very first thing I discovered and it appeared to do the job. I’m not a .NET man so it’s carried out as a CLI device that takes a wave file as enter and spits out a listing of timestamps.
Sharing the code would imply stepping into the enterprise of publishing an advert blocker which isn’t one thing I personally have the bandwidth for. It’s additionally removed from my most interesting work, being one thing that I banged out in a weekend. Completely satisfied to reply different questions on it, although! |
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I really love full text tabs forever, but as another commenter noted, it’d be good if it was open sourced to make sure it’s not sending the data to the devil.
Thanks for sharing! |
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I do all my daily work using my own text editor, which is also a micro-lite TUI IDE, sort of tmux+nano plus a directory browser, with easy frontends to grep and make:
https://www.github.com/marssaxman/ozette I don’t think about that anybody else would ever need to use this device, which has little to suggest it past the truth that it’s completely tailor-made to my very own idiosyncratic preferences – nevertheless it does go well with me, and I’ve definitely gotten extra hours of use out of it than another code I’ve ever written. |
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The chore wheel [1], which my wife and I used to run on an old iPad to track evening chores. It uses local storage for recurring chores and one-off reminders. We tried a bunch of other tools but they were all too full featured or slow to ooperate. It replaced a paper list.
When debugging network issues I realized I was going back and forth between my computer, router, and cables under the desk. I created an audible network check [2] so I could just listen to hear the status. [1] https://alexsci.com/chore-wheel/ [2] https://alexsci.com/web-audible-ping/ |
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I did the same for both of our kids. For the first, I created a web app where you could +1 or -1 on all legal names. I even used the Web Speech API to read aloud the names, if you clicked them.
For the second kid, I created an iOS app using React Native (https://i.imgur.com/aaTqXAY_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=gra…) the place you possibly can swipe names Tinder-style. We did not use the apps to search out _the_ names, however to get a narrowed down listing we may choose from. The tasks have been enjoyable and academic. |
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I created a small python library, a visual task-tracker with showing dependencies between tasks. You can create tasks either as Python objects, or as markdown files.
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Thank you very much! I always look for some word-plays. Fapel is a fap-able element, like a Pixel is a picture element. And, um, TopZemen is very nautic, with its sea men 😉
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I like using my E-Reader to read things, and often “things” will be articles on the web.
But I also like making annotations and like the reading app I use (KOReader) quite a lot, so firing up a browser would hurt the experience. So I made a script that turns websites into cleaned-up epub files that get synced over to my E-Reader: https://github.com/solarkraft/webpub It is intentionally engineered simply far sufficient to be adequate for my use case 🙂 |
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So many interesting things here! I’ve created quite a few things, but the ones I still use at least every week (some every day) are:
– Budget Zen: https://budgetzen.net – Easy and end-to-end encrypted funds & expense administration. (OSS and self-hostable, internet + PWA, and can also be a worthwhile product) – LockDB: https://lockdb.com – A CLI & NPM + Deno bundle that makes occasion locking simpler. (OSS and self-hostable) – Apollo: https://apollowrites.com – An inexpensive model copywriter for weblog posts and articles. (internet app) – Loggit: https://loggit.net – Easy and end-to-end encrypted life monitoring & logging. (OSS and self-hostable, internet + PWA) |
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When it became clear many major email providers were going to require OAuth for IMAP/POP/SMTP access, I was pretty frustrated that I’d have to stop using clients/scripts that didn’t support this method.
Rather than spending lots of effort on migration, or switching clients entirely, I made a local proxy so that any IMAP (or POP/SMTP) client can be used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether it supports OAuth 2.0 natively: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy. No want to your shopper to learn about OAuth in any respect. |
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After using a Macbook for a while, I became very accustomed to the “drag with three fingers feature” (found in accessibility settings, as I remember). But I am mostly use Windows, and after getting a new Windows laptop, I really missed that feature.
There are apps for that, but I couldn’t find any that is lightweight and able to get around some edge cases, like when while you drag with three fingers and let one finger up, it should let you scroll with two fingers, but let you to continue dragging if that was an accidental move and you put third finger back. And you have to address many such small details to have a seamless user experience with touch. So I wrote my own, and have been happy with it everyday since. It works with any Microsoft Precision Touchpad certified devices, so driver-independent, but I found that implementation of it can differ from vendor to vendor, and it can malfunction on some. And it is very hard to debug without access to device, so I tested only on my laptop, and couple of my friends’. So due to it, I didn’t try to make it widely available, and therefore it actually is for my own use. I’ll leave the link if anyone want to try: https://github.com/klkvsk/precise-three-fingers-drag, but when something, do not ask me, make a PR 🙂 |
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https://font2png.com to browse font-icons and export them as PNG, with background/foreground colour. Often you need SVG, however generally a PNG is healthier. I exploit it principally to generate fast favicons. It was additionally enjoyable to make it work utterly shopper facet with canvas.
https://github.com/combatwombat/rmdb imports the IMDb database (a minimum of the restricted .tsv information they supply) into MySQL so you may question it. Listing the best rated horror motion pictures of the 90s, style distribution by yr and so forth. I made that principally to c̶h̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶o̶n̶ assist with https://www.reddit.com/r/GuessTheMovie, with restricted success. Nonetheless enjoyable although to SQL-query over all motion pictures ever made. |
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https://factorhouse.io/kpow/
An enterprise toolkit for Apache Kafka (and now one other for Flink). I spent years working in giant enterprise orgs, just a few extra working with distributed techniques. Alongside the way in which I picked up Clojure and by the ability of greyskull managed to mix all these elements into an organization. Now I work with a small group transport instruments for programmers. Good occasions. At the moment we’ve got customers in 100+ nations, nevertheless it began off as one thing I wanted for myself / my group when engaged on shopper tasks. |
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I created several. The most recent: an Android app that lets you navigate any map, e.g. the one you just make a picture of: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.vanderplank…
I exploit this one myself: we wish to take walks, and never at all times are the routes marked that clearly. Nonetheless solely a handful of customers, however usefull I suppose for anybody that wished that e.g. Google maps made it attainable to add an image to be laid upon the background map. Earlier apps: 2 – a ‘fixer’ of Prezi’s. This was within the time that Prezi’s may change into ‘corrupt’ as one of many components was to small such that the code would give a ‘divided by zero’ downside. I fastened a number of these errors by hand, earlier than I made a (paid) service, and earlier than {that a} java program that fastened this by going into an XML file, discovering the smallest merchandise, and enlarging it. 3 – I do have one other app – LetsDoThis – however this one is completely different: it didn’t scratch one in all my very own itches, however that of my eldest daughter: she needed to ‘swipe’ away selections like one can on Tinder. This app by no means actually went of (my daughter didn’t come by way of on her promise to promote it amongst her fellow college students;-0 (Edit: added ‘1’ ‘2’ and so forth) |
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I created this website (https://unexploredhq.com/) to search out unexplored locations for journey with my SO. As a substitute of going to cliched locations like Paris in France, I can enter an space or area after which choose attributes of this place (eg Sunny, Seashore, Mountains) .. and see the listing of locations which fulfill my constraints. In future, I plan to combine a Flight API in order that I can add a constraint of discovering locations inside a funds.
I’m a ML researcher/engineer at coronary heart, so constructing out the attributes by scraping the net was simple (have over 26000 areas listed). However be taught React as a pastime (with assist from ChatGPT) to construct this 🙂 |
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I needed a weekly report for my contracting clients to prove their web host sucked to the point where it was costing them significant money.
They were paying for cheapest tier WordPress hosting at the time, and didn’t believe me when I said random 5 min blocks of downtime throughout the day were adding up. I built a dirt-simple form that takes a URL and sends a notification when the site goes down/up, with a weekly summary email. Then, I kept adding features every day, 2 hours at a time, even after I stopped being a contractor. That app was OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com). Since then I additionally added standing pages, like https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/ In addition to cron job monitoring, to make sure database backups and whatnot run after I count on. |
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Over the years I had used a number of reddit clients for Android, all of which had some features I loved and some which annoyed me, so last year I started building my own.
I released an alpha build early this year (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.morrissey.m…) however deserted it as a result of I ended utilizing reddit altogether, and did not love the concept of probably having to pay reddit for an app I used to be making a gift of totally free. Was definitely enjoyable constructing it although, no regrets. |
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https://microphonestudio.app
I’ve constructed an app that connects a number of telephones collectively wirelessly and data audio with all of their microphones concurrently. When you end recording all of the recorded audio tracks are instantly obtainable on all of the telephones for full-mix playback. In the event you goal for one of the best, studio high quality, you may connect any skilled microphone to the cellphone, too. Must be a pleasant device for musicians/bands, podcasters, filmmakers. I’ve created it as a result of I needed to have the ability to report my band rehearsals. Handheld recording units or single cell phone didn’t reduce it and studio area or gear was not obtainable or too costly. Recording with a number of microphones (multi-track recording) is the way you usually report in a recording studio to attain very best quality. The app permits you to do exactly that however with out costly studio gear (mixing console, audio interfaces, DAWs, pc, and so forth.). Additionally the time to get the total combine that you would be able to play and share is reduce virtually to zero. |
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I was a hardcodre user of notion, but it was super slow in the intial days. I was mainly using it for note taking, temporary copy pasta and to store code snippets. Felt like notion is a bit of an overkill and built a local first app that runs on the browser. Stores everything in locally in the indexedDB and is super fast to load. Check it out https:///snipp.in. Which is now being utilized by most of my engineering mates who know me, it is also open supply.
Additionally, whereas engaged on maps, felt there weren’t any good various to GeoJSON editor on-line so constructed one thing by spending hours, it is top-of-the-line GeoJSON Editors on the market which is free to make use of https://krata.app |
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I initially created Npkill (https://npkill.js.org) for my very own use as a result of as an internet developer I used to be at all times operating out of disk area. Once we launched it shortly turned common as a result of evidently not solely we had that downside and in the present day it’s the preferred device for that goal.
One other one I launched was Tablet Reminder (https://zaldih.github.io/pill-reminder/). In case you are taking one thing for a chilly or medical remedy it permits you to simply swipe and observe down when you have got taken your medicine and allows you to know if you end up as a consequence of take it subsequent. ScrollTabs (https://github.com/zaldih/scrolltabs-extension) was born so quickly after I migrated from chrome to firefox years in the past and I missed with the ability to swap between tabs with the mouse scroll. + many others that I want to put together and make public for the long run. |
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I created an app with share a file and watch it with someone https://github.com/LucCADORET/comeover .
It really works with WebTorrent (torrent for the net over WebRTC), has a wasm ffmpeg embedded for manipulatin the video file. I used it with my girlfriend rather a lot. I actually could not inform you why I did not use Discord straight although, as that is principally out of date now (except for the standard of the video). |
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I built a website for box breathing:
https://box-breathing.com It’s mainly a timer to your respiratory workouts, as the concept is that you simply inhale and exhale slowly, maintain your breath in between, every step lasting 4 seconds. I attempted to make it so simple as attainable, and to make it usable with outdated units as effectively. |
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– With a friend we created SongStitch (https://songstitch.art/) as a result of I wasn’t glad with the efficiency and optimisations of current final.fm collage turbines. I embed a final.fm collage on my web site, and former turbines did not resizing, did not compress effectively, and have been sluggish inflicting me to be kicked out of the 250kb membership—so it was adequate motivation to construct SongStitch (https://github.com/nkoehring/250kb-club/issues/337). We additionally developed it as open supply from the beginning https://github.com/SongStitch/song-stitch
– I created `gcopy` (https://github.com/TheDen/gcopy) as a result of I needed to increase `pbcopy` to repeat nontext knowledge from the terminal to the clipboard, so I may shortly paste such knowledge in Slack (or as e-mail attachments)—I received tried to having to search out it the precise file in Finder to repeat or drag it to an app. I’ve since aliased `pbcopy` to `gcopy` since it is a drop-in alternative. – Additionally created `galvani` (https://theden.mmm.page/galvani) to point out and alter the the ability mode standing on MacOS from the menubar |
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Earlier this year I wanted to practice my JS skills and needed to send some F*ck cards to my friends. So I built https://thefuck.cards
It is a bit internet app the place you make the crd to your style, handle it and as soon as generated, you may share it with anybody. |
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My oldest is my home page, I’ve had the same home page on all browsers and devices since 1998. It was Perl, then PHP, and it uses a text file as the database, and around 2000 was updated to XHTML and to have the ability to pull in RSS locally and incorporate that.
https://dee.kitchen/bookmarks/ As a result of it made all the things I usually entry obtainable so simply, I took up resetting my browser every time it began, after which utilizing personal/incognito shopping when that turned obtainable. My shopping session is actually ephemeral and I do not maintain tabs open, I simply reopen no matter I would like. I am really not sure how everybody else browses, do you all simply begin the place you left off? You utilize bookmark toolbars? Simply seek for issues? I really feel that what I do requires very low cognitive load, prefer it’s mentally touring mild, no burdens. This appears like a great time to rewrite it TBH… it is my solely remaining PHP and JS is so succesful now that I may simply do that 100% shopper facet and make the entire thing cacheable, apart from the “fetch RSS” which might be simplified to a cron. |
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I’ve built Caloree an iOS/Mac app that allows you to track your daily calorie intake, go on a calorie deficit diet and track your weight which has worked wonders for me. It’s freemium, but most features are available for free. It can be found at https://caloree.app.
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Most of my programs were written for my own use, including:
• A keyboard layout to type numerous non-English letters, punctuation marks and mathematical symbols, originally for Windows but subsequently ported to Linux and Mac [https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey] • A ‘sound change applier’ for my pastime of language building, to simulate the method of historic sound change [https://bradrn.com/brassica/] • A small browser extension to avoid wasting the total textual content of all webpages I go to, and an area shopper to look the database [not open-sourced, apologies!] The primary two have gained just a few different customers since being launched, however I’m fairly certain I’m nonetheless the one who makes use of them probably the most! |
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During the pandemic I got back to an old hobby, creating Half-Life levels. I found that certain things involved a lot of repetitive work, so I started working on some automation tools.
For textures and sprites, I made WadMaker and SpriteMaker, which can convert a directory full of images (including Photoshop and Krita files) to the specific formats that HL uses: https://github.com/pwitvoet/wadmaker/ For creating ranges, I made an automation device named MESS (Macro Entity Scripting System) that may do issues like protecting terrain with props, simplifying stage scripting and robotically making use of workarounds for identified bugs: https://pwitvoet.github.io/mess/ It has been very instructional (and enjoyable), studying about colour, geometry and making programming languages. |
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rtpmidid[1]. After getting some hardware synthesizers and wanting to connect them without using a computer.. but being able to use them too using the computer I stumbled upon with rtpmidi the protocol and it ticked all the boxes I needed. I could connect all my gear to a raspberry pi, use ALSA sequencer to connect devices to each other with another of my programs AseqRC[2], and then use my synths from my DAW without touching any cable.
So after a fast prototype I created rtpmidid and I’m quite happy on how it works. And it also helps with the USB ground loop noise that it seems unavoidable some times. For some time I had even two Orange Pis connected to two sections of my gear, using USB gadget support so my MPC One could speak rtpmidi. MPC One has support to connect as host to MIDI devices, but as guest (connect to the computer) only in controlled mode which is not what I needed to convert my MIDI tracks to my DAW. [1] https://github.com/davidmoreno/rtpmidid[2] https://github.com/davidmoreno/aseqrc |
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https://github.com/trypromptly/LLMStack – began engaged on this as a wrapper over OpenAI’s endpoints for one more product and it step by step turned this.
One other undertaking I labored on for my very own use was a community remoted, light-weight video monitoring system. Round 5 years in the past, I used to be seeking to set up a digicam in our front room. I could not discover something I trusted that labored utterly offline with out some companion app pinging their servers. So I purchased a primary IP digicam on Amazon that helps rtsp and a raspberry pi. Created a fenced wifi community and added the digicam to it. Had an FFmpeg course of learn digicam stream on demand and write to native buffers. Wrote a easy python server to pay attention for incoming connections on a distinct interface and stream the video on API requests. Then constructed an android app that talks to the python server to stream video on demand. Additionally put in movement (https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion) on raspberry pi to detect movement within the video and retailer these snippets to native storage. With movement operating, the adapter I used to be utilizing wasn’t delivering sufficient energy leading to storage often unmounting and raspberry pi restarting taking the digicam system offline. With movement detection disabled, the whole setup ran reliably for a few years. |
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I built Shortcut Keeper (https://shortcutkeeper.com), a desktop app that permits you to save keyboard shortcuts.
It was primarily born out of my have to re-learn a number of hotkeys when switching from utilizing Home windows to macOS. I needed a simple strategy to report and maintain all the brand new shortcuts I discovered daily in a single place. |
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https://www.hazumi.news/
I made Hazumi Information for internet and iOS to browse HN. It is the one facet undertaking that I’ve caught with for years and nonetheless having fun with engaged on. It is extra of a contemporary presentation layer on high of HN with photographs and summaries of the linked article. The purpose is to strive join a extra informal viewers with this wonderful trove of tech information and dialogue. Funded principally on my own and the handful of people that subscribe for €1 per thirty days on iOS. |
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One of the first things I learned to write for myself when I was a teenager was a diary program, written for DOS. I think I wrote it in QuickBASIC. Then later, I wrote another one using Modula-2. I believe I wrote another one after that using C++. (I’m going to have to dig up a copy to read those entries I wrote years ago!)
Anyway, earlier this year I thought it would be neat to have a journaling app that had the UI of twitter, so built it and finally released it recently: https://minders.ussherpress.com/ |
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I built a local server environment, alternative to MAMP: https://www.servbay.dev
It’s an built-in native internet growth surroundings administration device designed to simplify the setup and administration of assorted companies and growth environments for internet builders regionally. |
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https://git.ishanjain.me/ishan/multicaster
This can be a mdns repeater for (primarily house) networks. The “really helpful” approach is to make use of use PIM/IGMP however you cannot management the precise mdns names that’ll be repeated over the vlan boundary. There are just a few different repeaters however nothing that may’ve labored for me so I wrote this. It nonetheless wants just a few enhancements round caching responses. mdns enabled units do identified prefix suppression which some occasions causes issues. |
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Its still a work in progress.
https://github.com/DumbMachine/pbs/ to make use of a keyboard to work together with internet. It is like vimium however tailor-made to my liking: – hints are acronym of textContent ( or metadata ) of html components. – A command bar with fuzzy seek for browserhistory. Helped cut back mouse utilization, which I believe was inflicting pressure on my wrist. |
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I wanted to be able to watch the onboard cameras of endurance races all on one (full)screen as some teams publish the live feeds on youtube during races. So I created https://videwall.com the place you may add video gamers (or different internet pages) from a URL and they’re arrange in an optimum strategy to fill the display as a lot as attainable.
I used it for the 24 hours of Le Mans and the following races and had a blast watching them that approach 🙂 It was additionally a great excuse to be taught React. I plan so as to add just a few extra options and write concerning the placement logic after I get the time for it. |
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you can use matrix and integrate all those (whatsbook, telegram, irc, etc) into a single client. most clients have os integration and custom notification settings
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I was annoyed at how parasitic recruiters started contacting me about jobs in crypto, so i spent the last year building a fully automated job board that ingests all job data automatically and structures it using openai, while also enriching it with relevant company financials to combat information asymmetry.
I’m now using it to find my next job 🙂 Check it out at: |
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This was fun. I like the little bounce of playing field when the block hits the bottom. And it loads pretty fast for a Godot web game.
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Thank you! I like it and people I have shown it to say it feels ”addictive”, but something is missing as I am the only person who keeps playing after some levels 😀 so maybe it’s for me only.
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PyCmd: wrapper for Windows’ CMD.exe to provide a modern, dramatically improved interactive experience while maintaining ~complete compatibility: https://github.com/horeah/PyCmd
I began it a few years in the past for my very own use, however it’s an open supply undertaking and has aquired some public “viewers” in the intervening time. It has a current Linux port (beta high quality) which brings the identical interactive enhancements when working with bash. |
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Reminds me of an advanced version of the old Dropbox where you could quickly host static sits from the finder.
Was the best thing about Dropbox. Of course they killed it. |
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I created https://a.foo some time in the past which simply summarizes URLs for me. Like, if I haven’t got time to learn an article or one thing, I simply pop ‘a.foo’ in entrance of the URI and it offers me a fast rundown. EDIT: semi fearful it will go down now that I’ve posted it right here however meh.
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For retirement calculators monte carlo simulations seem like the best way to model risk, but all existing implementations are several orders of magnitude slower than they should be. I made https://james.darpinian.com/money/ to show that it is attainable to simulate one million situations in just a few milliseconds. You possibly can drag sliders and see simulation outcomes replace in actual time. Even on telephones.
As a result of I made it for my very own use, the UI is horrible. The simulation end result it is advisable take note of is the % success on the backside, which adjustments as you drag the sliders. The simulation assumptions are affordable and complex (extra so than many current FIRE instruments, particularly using actuarial tables) however not documented besides within the code feedback. It might be cool if one of many actual FIRE calculators on the market with an actual UI would implement a quick monte carlo simulator like this. I might be pleased to share the way it works. |
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Two apps that fulfill convenience functions for two niche interests of mine:
– https://ramdass-search.net – Full-text search in movies of talks by Ram Dass, aka Richard Alpert, a former Harvard professor of Psychology who turned a widely known non secular trainer within the 60s and 70s. – https://rtfcal.de – Get the dates of novice biking occasions (Gran Fondos) as an .ics file so I can import them to my calendar. The app submits the search to the biking affiliation’s web site, parses the ensuing HTML and creates an .ics file. |
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https://github.com/m5r/shellphone.app
I used to be midway the world over after I wanted to make a number of cellphone calls to my financial institution again house. So I pulled up Twilio’s docs and constructed this app to make cellphone calls and ship SMS from anyplace. I attempted monetizing it by promoting it to digital nomads however this sort of downside is just not recurring sufficient or painful sufficient to justify them paying for it |
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I sue Skype for that. Setting/switching multiple CID helps to avoid stupid questions from bank staff like, hmmm, I see your are not calling from registered number…
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