time
digraph
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time
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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
Probably boring to most people but I created a tool to nail exactly 40 hours a week contracting using the laziest possible inputs getting me out as early as possible on Friday:
https://github.com/cynoclast/time
Usage example:
tm 8.5 9.27 8.83 8.87 9:45-1:23 1:33-
14:11
54 minutes
Notice you don't have to give it AM/PM? Also don't have to give it any flags. It figures out what to calculate based on number of arguments alone. And it knows 9:45 to 1:23 is around 4 hours, not -8.
And during the week, decimal hours for timesheets:
tm 8:30-12:30 12:40-6:40
10.0
I used it 5x a week during my contracting days.
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Some tiny personal programs I've written
I wrote a small program to manage my contracting time after it being gently suggested that I stick to 40 hours and that overtime wasn't needed of me (calculate hours per day and when to leave Friday to hit 40.0). I wrote it so that usage was absolutely as lazy as possible. So typical use cases look like this:
>$ tm 8:30-12:30 12:40-
Time to leave: 16:40
so as to hit 8.0 hours for the day.
and
>$ tm 8.5 9.27 8.83 8.87 9:45-1:23 1:33-
14:11
54 minutes
is an example of when to leave (early!) on Friday to hit 40.0
Note how you don't have to tell it AM/PM or use 24 hour time. Nor give it any special flags to tell it which calculation to run. And it just handles the rollover at noon for you.
source: https://github.com/cynoclast/time (Java, because that's what I used at the time)
digraph
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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
My own purpose in using it is to be able to get back to any link that I've read or have potentially wanted to read at a later point in time.
You scan see screenshots here: https://github.com/emwalker/digraph.
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My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information
I have the same habit and wrote a web app to catalog the links I come across:
https://digraph.app/
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Google Search Is Dying
This was kind of the idea behind a side project I started a few years ago:
https://digraph.app/
https://blog.digraph.app/2020-06-13-democratization-of-searc...
I definitely think crowd-sourcing and a well-conceived reputation management system that can influence results are good next areas for exploration.
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Paul Graham's Twitter thread on Search engines and SEO spam
> I think building search vertical that are hand-curated would be very interesting to see.
That was my inspiration behind a side project I made a few years ago — a decentralized, hand curated "search engine" [0]. Never got beyond the side project stage. But I see promise in this in the future. Eventually we'll figure out that human and moderated curation is better than the best machine learning.
[0] https://github.com/emwalker/digraph
What are some alternatives?
hacker-scripts - Based on a true story
uBlock-Origin-dev-filter - Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other search engines. Specific to dev websites like StackOverflow or GitHub.
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
endoflife.date - Informative site with EoL dates of everything
exhibitor - Snappy and delightful React component workshop
loda-identify-similar-programs - Measure how similar LODA programs are
ClockThing - An Arduino Alarm Clock for LILYGO LILY Pi ESP32
FordACP-AUX - Ford CD changer emulator with AUX playback control using Arduino UNO
adm-zip - A Javascript implementation of zip for nodejs. Allows user to create or extract zip files both in memory or to/from disk
cardboard - 💽 Cloud storage + management platform for analog video files
notebooks - Just various notebooks I sometimes write to help me, no unifying theme
SaunaControl - Makes a Sauna think it's a web server.