Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still like to use today?

• ScpToolkit

  59 2,488 0.1 C#

  Discontinued Windows Driver and XInput Wrapper for Sony DualShock 3/4 Controllers

I still use https://github.com/nefarius/ScpToolkit to let me use my PS3 controller with my computer. It's the only way I've found but the driver has a bug that bluescreens my computer after it comes out of sleep, if the controller has been used before it went to sleep. If someone has an alternate driver please lmk!

• incubator-retired-wave

  5 174 0.0 Java

  Discontinued Apache Wave is now retired

  

FWIW iirc it was continued for some time by apache (https://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html) but is also discontinued now. (I hope thats the correct project, but I'm pretty sure).

Also here: https://github.com/apache/incubator-retired-wave

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• LgTvControl

  3 1 0.0 C#

  REST API for LG TV RS-232 control

You can still buy the (current model) Apple remote separately from Apple TV; current Mac OS versions still have built in support for the basic media control buttons (pause/play, volume control, maybe a few others). And you can use tools like BetterTouchTool to customize it.

I use mine (previous-gen Siri remote) to control volume, display brightness, display power on/off, and to switch between display inputs, the first using OSC to the RME mixer app and the rest via a trivial Web service I wrote[1] that controls the LG TV I use as a display via RS-232 (which, for UI reasons, is noticeably faster than using the TV's bundled remote for the same tasks, and much faster than using the buttons and OSD to input-switch on my previous, non-TV display).

While I have keyboard hotkeys set up for the same operations on the Mac, I frequently USB switch my keyboard and mouse to other computers connected to the display, with HDMI audio routed via S/PDIF to the same audio interface (RME Babyface Pro), so having "always-on" copies of these controls is handy.

Before the Apple Remote, I considered using controls on a small MIDI digital piano I have within reach for the same purpose, but this way is slightly more convenient in that I don't have to toggle the controls off when playing the piano.

[1] https://github.com/jasminetroll/LgTvControl

• openfl

  9 1,853 9.0 Haxe

  The Open Flash Library for creative expression on the web, desktop, mobile and consoles.

  

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