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brethap
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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
In 2017 I spent a while messing around and creating a system to code and control my computer via voice. I was experiencing RSI pain at the time, and thought I should be proactive and have a strategy where I could still work and use my computer in case it kept getting worse and it became an impedance to create such a tool. I tried every voice to text I could find, and unfortunately for me the only acceptable one in terms of quality was Dragon Naturally Speaking, which was commercial and Windows only (I use Linux). I decided to build a virtual machine running Windows XP which ran the voice -> text translation, and then run a local server on the Linux side which would receive packets of text from the virtual machine. It was then a matter of parsing the string for language primitives, as you'd need a custom alphabet of keywords to do certain actions like type any given key combination, and inventing your own primitives for this reduces ambiguity (voice detection is only so accurate and the use case here means it's going to be less accurate than usual since you are not speaking in expected english, plus you want everything to be single syllable).
The process of building a dictionary of primitives and shorts was very much akin to what court reporters / Stenographers do to type fast, and was also probably related to my RSI given that I started my career out as a Stenographer. Something I regret in retrospect.
In terms of voice coding, things really have gotten so much better since then where we now have amazing free and open source options for text to speech, and we've also seen a proliferation of apps used to code via voice. I'm partial to Talon, though I don't do any voice coding today. https://talonvoice.com/. Github also just announced a voice to code copilot type thing, and at this point given the advances we're seeing in AI I'm sure I'll be okay if my RSI gets bad. This video was one of the things I watched and helped me in building the system, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI
I'm also building a video game, and plan on building many more. I'm writing it in a monorepo where I have a common shared foundation, and then apps using and building on that foundation. I believe in dogfooding my code, and have built a bunch of things with it towards that end
The thing I'm happiest with and use the most is a small and simple music player. I never could find a replacement Foobar2000, so I wrote my own. It runs nearly 24/7 on my PC's.
I've also built a breathing app after discovering that breathing exercises were like magic in terms of improving mood and reducing blood pressure. The one I built was modeled after https://github.com/jithware/brethap, and I mainly built it because it was trivial to do and Firefox kept putting the web tab to sleep. If you have high blood pressure, I 100% recommend exploring different breathing exercises.
I've also built two different GUI wrappers around image generators. The first app was built around VQGan+Clip back before Stable Diffusion, and it supported swapping the backends to change generators. I built it as a web app with Svelte, and it let me explore the images and auto-generate based on a theme or with a given sentence structure where parts of the sentence could be sampled from a pool. The second one was much the same, but it was built with my monorepo, it was built around Stable Diffusion, and I added an image-to-image component. The usefulness of this project is near 0 as there are better open source versions out there.
I also built a static website generator in Ruby for my personal website. I've since soured on Ruby though, and my website is no longer online. There are other things but I'll leave it there because this is already too long.
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⟳ 3 apps added, 42 updated at f-droid.org
Brethap (version 1.0.1): Control your breathing during meditation.
hacker-scripts
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New startup sells coffee through SSH and exclusively through SSH
Reminded me of Hacker Scripts, specifically `fucking-coffee`:
> this one waits exactly 17 seconds (!), then opens a telnet session to our coffee-machine (we had no frikin idea the coffee machine is on the network, runs linux and has a TCP socket up and running) and sends something like `sys brew`. Turns out this thing starts brewing a mid-sized half-caf latte and waits another 24 (!) seconds before pouring it into a cup. The timing is exactly how long it takes to walk to the machine from the dudes desk.
https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
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Cum va arăta Moldova peste 20 de ani?
India has hundreds of millions of English speakers, is it a stellar IT nation? It can only boast a dozen puppet top execs of Indian origins in US megacorps like Microsoft and Google. And a few hundred thousands of office drones on H-1B visas. Half of them probably already got used as ass wipes and fired during the post-pandemic mass layoffs. Are there so many reasonably known Indian programmers? If the ones working in IT companies may not be known due to NDAs and code being proprietary, they should have as many known contributors to free software. Where are they? Do you know many? I know ONLY ONE. All India is known for are mean memes like the one about Kumar the proverbial asshole. You can read more about it here if you're not familiar https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
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Bill Gates said, "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." What's a real-life example of this?
This story comes to mind. It could very well be made up, but someone else made those scripts inspired by the story.
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I have slowly but surely automated nearly all of my ER and even "ER" tickets when I'm off with the exception of network down level scenarios.
kumar-asshole.sh
- Hacker Scripts
- What tools/internal projects/app/scripts/automation stuff have you built at work to improve your development experience?
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Now that's what I call an hacker
This is the script used to talk to the coffee machine:
https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts/blob/master/fucking...
I wonder how many other devices talk telnet and have a weak password. Would be cool to have a database of such models.
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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
This reminded me of this internet folklore: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/249-now-thats-what-i-call-a-...
There is also a recreation of the scripts at https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
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What do you do to achieve this catastrophy?
This is it, not sure if it's the original
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Thread Diario de Dudas, Consultas y Mitaps - 28/03
nunca te olvides de esto...
What are some alternatives?
Readrops - Android multi-services RSS client
stylus - Stylus - Userstyles Manager
SagerNet - The universal proxy toolchain for Android
cmdg - Command line Gmail client
notebooks - Just various notebooks I sometimes write to help me, no unifying theme
IKEv2-setup - Set up Ubuntu Server 20.04 (or 18.04) as an IKEv2 VPN server
exhibitor - Snappy and delightful React component workshop
malten - Anonymous ephemeral messaging
FordACP-AUX - Ford CD changer emulator with AUX playback control using Arduino UNO
Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books - Anime Girls Holding Programming Books
Apkpurer - Simple client for https://apkpure.com
Dkron - Dkron - Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduling system https://dkron.io