hitdeck VS tlssh

I created two web apps to help when playing the boardgame Gloomhaven. Both were coded in Elm and were done partly because I had a need for them and partly just for the joy of coding in Elm. I'll link the github repos of both, the demo is linked in the README for each.

The first app is Battle Objectives [0] which I made so that my group could play with some "enhanced battle objectives" I found online. The fan-made enhanced battle objectives are freely available on Boardgame Geek but I didn't want to print out and cut out all the cards so I coded them into an app. I linked this app on BGG but didn't think it was getting any use from anyone outside my personal Gloomhaven group. But I also found out while writing this post that someone forked Battle Objectives to translate it to German so I guess someone was using it! [1]

The second one is Hitdeck [2] which I made to automate the tedium of reshuffling my hitdeck and of rebuilding it to add and remove cards as the game went on.

[0] https://github.com/tristanpendergrass/battle-objectives

[1] https://github.com/ToM-Korn/kampfziele

[2] https://github.com/tristanpendergrass/hitdeck

* My own RSS reader (not published. It will never be end-user friendly enough to compete with other ones. But it's better for me)

And then plenty more than I use occasionally, and some I no longer use. E.g. for a while I used my own SSH replacement, in order to get TPM-backed keys (https://github.com/ThomasHabets/tlssh). Nowadays I use yubikey instead (https://blog.habets.se/2016/01/Yubikey-4-for-SSH-with-physic...).

Those are just the main ones (as in not small, and used every day). I find myself fixing problems all the time by writing code.

A curious question. Aside from my day job, this seems like a thing I do all day. :-)

I'm not sure what the motivation for your question is. Do you feel like everything's been invented and built already, and it's just a matter of (at most) plugging the things together?

I find myself constantly thinking "this should exist". I don't have time to make them all exist.

https://github.com/ThomasHabets/arping

Nothing like it existed at the time, and I wanted to send ARP requests as easily as sending ICMP ping.

https://github.com/ThomasHabets/simple-tpm-pk11

I wanted to use a TPM chip for SSH client keys, and couldn't find anything like it.

https://github.com/ThomasHabets/tlssh

I wanted to explore what it would be like to have SSH, but with identities not based on providing username, but an x509 cert. (and TPM chip protecting the key)