Conkey
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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Conkey
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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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 hobby of language construction, to simulate the process of historical sound change [https://bradrn.com/brassica/]
• A small browser extension to save the full text of all webpages I visit, and a local client to search the database [not open-sourced, apologies!]
The first two have gained a few other users since being released, but I’m pretty sure I’m still the one who uses them the most!
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I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it?
I made my own crossplatform multilingual layout [0]. Although it’s based on QWERTY, it shouldn’t be hard to remap the Linux and Mac versions to any other base layout, since they’re autogenerated from the Windows version.
[0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
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Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
The biggest one for me is undoubtedly my custom keyboard layout Conkey [0], which I use constantly (including for typing this very comment). I hate the way the base US layout tends to get distorted in other keyboard layouts with good support for non-ASCII characters, so Conkey had the explicit goal of retaining that basic unshifted layout. I’ve also ended up porting Conkey to Mac and Linux — and given that I’m slowly switching from Windows to Linux, at least the Linux ports have ‘scratched my own itch’ too, which is nice.
Also, I made a utility to archive the full text of every website I view and store it in a SQLite database for searching. It’s proven pretty useful when I want to find something I saw a while ago and then forgot. (I haven’t attempted to open-source it, though — it consists of three entirely separate components, two of which were a pain to set up. I must try to get it into a more usable state one of these days.)
What else… my sound change applier [1], perhaps? Not that I use it very much, because I only need it on those occasions when I want to do some conlanging, which I haven’t had much time for recently. Actually, sound change appliers strike me as being very much a ‘scratch own itch’ type of project in general… sometimes it feels like every conlanger has written their own, and no two can agree on a nice design. Everyone just has their own unique preferred way of doing things.
[0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
[1] https://github.com/bradrn/brassica
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An accentuated Emacs experiment (à la macOS)
For a ~50-year-old program, Emacs’s support for multilingual input — and really, it’s all-round flexibility — continually amazes me! For myself I prefer my own custom keyboard layout [0], because it works outside Emacs too, but I’d happily use Emacs’s own input methods if that would be sufficient.
(In fairness, I have found one weak spot, namely font support… I’ve used ‘unicode-fonts’ [1] with some success, but reportedly it doesn’t work with the latest Emacs. Ah well, it’s at least fairly rare that this becomes a problem in practice.)
[0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
[1] https://github.com/rolandwalker/unicode-fonts
- WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
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A Mathematical Keyboard Layout (2018)
To port my keyboard layout [0] to OSX, I used ‘osxkb’ [1], which outputs an OSX keyboard layout bundle given a simple textual specification file. It was originally created specifically to port Conkey to OSX, but should be entirely usable for other purposes as well.
[0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
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The Design of Forms in Government Departments (1962)
> But instead, we're dealing with Latex - a language that overcomplicates the most basic features such as fonts, tables and special characters.
I can’t really argue with the rest of your post, but in my experience this is incorrect. Fonts and special characters are both trivial if you use XeTeX, and tables, though slightly clumsy, are still pretty easy. As an example, see the documentation I wrote for https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey, which makes extremely heavy use of all three features. (As documentation for a keyboard layout, it uses characters from pretty much every corner of Unicode, and accompanying tables of many shapes and sizes to show how to type these characters; I needed to use Gentium in order to render all these characters, with Times New Roman as a fallback. I found that LaTeX could ably handle all of these complecations.)
Nullboard
- Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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Show HN: Nbagent – simple Nullboard backup agent for Unix systems
Hello, HN! I'd like to introduce you to nbagent[0], an open-source alternative backup agent for Nullboard[1] for Unix systems. If you, like me, are a fan of Nullboard's simplicity and you've been looking for an easy way to have your data backed up, check it out.
I'd love to hear your feedback on nbagent. Please feel free to leave comments, suggestions, or questions below.
[0] https://github.com/luismedel/nbagent
[1] https://nullboard.io/preview
- Nullboard: Minimalist Kanban board, focused on compactness and readability
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Kanboard is a free and open source Kanban project management software
Surprisingly no one has mentioned nullboard (https://nullboard.io/preview) yet. Just a single file JSON to carry around the entire board.
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Looking for a Very Simple Kanban
Nullboard maybe?
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Software for organizing board game nights?
minimalist kanban board, without fancy tagging/time tracking/... features. Every game has a column, and notes are player names. nullboard would be perfect if it wasn't local only;
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Phabricator replacement? | Or OpenProject alternative? | issue tracking/code
Nullboard - cool simple project, no bug tracking
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Real hidden gems when it comes to self hosting
Nullboard - Kanban board with dark mode, localStorage, and thoughtful UI
- Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
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Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana
I use and like https://nullboard.io/preview nullboard which runs in the browser. Because it uses local data, you need to save it or the data is lost when you close the browser window.
What are some alternatives?
espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
react-tech-tree - React visual tree components. Demo: https://ldd.github.io/react-tech-tree/
Scoop-Core - Shovel. Alternative, more advanced, and user-friendly implementation of windows command-line installer scoop.
Kanboard - Kanban project management software
ibus - Intelligent Input Bus for Linux/Unix
sleek - todo.txt manager for Linux, Windows and MacOS, free and open-source (FOSS)
ScienceNotes - Just a keyboard for science notes on a Mac
logseq - A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
9ime - Plan 9's unicode input method ported to windows
Wekan - The Open Source kanban (built with Meteor). Keep variable/table/field names camelCase. For translations, only add Pull Request changes to wekan/i18n/en.i18n.json , other translations are done at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan only.
https-bot - Find http urls that can be safely replaced by https url
TiddlyWiki - A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc.