What is the most useless project you have been working on?

• woof-alert

  1 49 - C++

  A dog collar that converts barks to emails.

  

• notanos

  1 151 - JavaScript

  Not really an oprating system, Just a pile of javascript pretending to be a Desktop Environment

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• egyptian-ratscrew-ruby

  3 1 0.0 Ruby

  An Egyptian Rat Screw simulator used to find game-breaking strategies.

I wrote a simulator for testing different strategies to "cheese" Egyptian ratscrew (aka slaps) in Ruby. https://github.com/benngarcia/egyptian-ratscrew-ruby

I really suck at the game and my buddy had ideas for different strategies that would beat someone skilled at the game. So I made a CLI tool to simulate these strategies. I haven't played the game since learning that yes, there are strategies that beat skill given a sufficiently low burn rate.

• i2cmon

  1 10 - Verilog

  FPGA-based I2C to RS-232 serial converter / bus monitor

Long ago I wrote an FPGA image to convert I2C to serial for long-term logging, to catch that rare, once a week event:

https://github.com/jhallen/i2cmon

You capture the serial using minicom log to file or similar, then you can peruse the log at your leisure.

• axes

  1 0 - JavaScript
  

I made a browser extension that allows scripting short webpage interaction scenarios[0] using a custom DSL. The DSL allows to point to elements using on-screen labels, similarly to trydactil, pentadactyl and such. The DSL actions are essentially functions that accept arguments, for example one can describe something like "enter 'foo' in google search field and press the button" with a script line similar to: "|'foo'a c", where 'a' and 'c' correspond to labels on the screen.

These scenario descriptions can then be bound to hotkeys.

I decided to embed a LISP into the extension, but while building the interpreter[1] I realized that the DSL is already too complex for everyday use, and I haven't really used it to automate anything.

I am the only one user of this addon.

[0] https://github.com/axes-webext/axes

• fortune

  1 2 1.2 JavaScript

  A command line tool which gives you a random quote. (by aidantomcy)

• selectric-mode

  3 157 1.8 Emacs Lisp

  ⌨ Make your Emacs sound like a proper typewriter.

I've done plenty of useless things in my career, and had more than my fair share of projects that ended up being shelved and never used, but, sometimes, I make useless things on purpose.

https://github.com/rbanffy/selectric-mode

Please enjoy.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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