laserboot
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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laserboot
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Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
In this way I estimate I create about 32 new programs a day for only my own personal use. But in many cases I only use each one once. ^R makes it easy to use them again a few times, but in other cases I save them into a shell script to make them easier to distribute to other machines, parameterize, and maintain. The one I most often use is probably a user interface for YouTube via youtube-dl or yt-dlp that consists of a few such shell scripts.
My main editor is Emacs. If I want to do the same thing repeatedly (e.g., delete a line containing the string .LVL) I create a keyboard macro with F3 and F4 (or C-x ( and C-x )) when I do it once, then run it repeatedly with C-x e. I probably write about 4 programs a day in this way.
Emacs has a M-: command to evaluate Lisp expressions, which are programs. Recent programs I have written in this way include (/ 43.2 1.7), (* 9.3 1.2), and (+ 8 3 2.50 3.50 3 7 3.50 3 1.50 4.50 6 5.50 6.50 6 3 2.50 2.50). Probably I write about 1 program a day in this way but I only use each one once. Longer Lisp programs like this can be written in scratch and executed with C-j or in .emacs (or .emacs.d/init.el) and executed with C-x C-e. For example, (global-set-key [f5] 'recompile). I use my .emacs file constantly every day but probably only add something to it about once a month. An outdated version is at https://github.com/kragen/kragen-.emacs.d/blob/master/init.e....
Sometimes I write bigger programs for my own personal use too.
A few years ago I wrote https://github.com/kragen/pytebeat for a livecoding performance of bytebeat in a bar. I finished writing it in the train on the way to the bar.
In https://github.com/kragen/laserboot I wrote a simple parametric 2-D CAD system for laser cutters in PostScript.
For Dercuano http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano I wrote a kind of shitty HTML rendering engine that generates a PDF file, as well as a simple CMS for generating a tree of HTML files from a directory of Markdown.
The other night I wrote a bytecode interpreter with a graphical display in C as a sort of mockup for the operating system of a small computer I recently got the parts for; it's in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/erika.git.
I've also written compilers, interpreters, ray tracers, database engines, parser generators, graphics libraries, logic circuit optimizers, 2-D game engines, etc., for my own use. Some of the recent ones are in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3.
tlssh
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Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
* 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.
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Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
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)
What are some alternatives?
Tiny-Tiny-RSS - A PHP and Ajax feed reader
snipp.in - Fast, Light-weight, Notes, Snippet manager and code editor directly inside your browser
Keimeno - A lightweight text user interface library in Crystal
null - Nullable Go types that can be marshalled/unmarshalled to/from JSON.
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
kondo - Cleans dependencies and build artifacts from your projects.
Pion WebRTC - Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API
hnrss - Custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News
vaku - vaku extends the vault api & cli
m4b-tool - m4b-tool is a command line utility to merge, split and chapterize audiobook files such as mp3, ogg, flac, m4a or m4b
Nullboard - Nullboard is a minimalist kanban board, focused on compactness and readability.