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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by StavrosK on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:21AM (#12957706)
I'm proud of many things :(

* I converted a rotary phone into a cellphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8

* I wrote a personal bookmark search engine: http://historio.us/

* A site that talks to spammers so you don't have to: https://spa.mnesty.com/

* A pastebin: http://pastery.net/

* A remote-controlled GSM irrigation controller for farmers: https://gitlab.com/stavros/irrigation-controller

* A button that orders food when pressed: https://www.stavros.io/posts/emergency-food-button/

* A python library and cli utility for controlling YeeLight RGB LED bulbs (a cheaper and nicer version of Hue bulbs) that I wrote this weekend: https://yeelight.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

* A secure communications library for IoT devices: http://stringphone.readthedocs.org/

* I took some non-terrible photos and made a site for them: http://portfolio.stavros.io/

* A hardware library for the A6 GSM modem: https://github.com/skorokithakis/A6lib

* Expounder, a better way to explain things in text: http://skorokithakis.github.io/expounder

* Dead man's switch, a website to email people after you die: https://www.deadmansswitch.net/

* I can't even remember the rest.

Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by Retr0spectrum on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:20AM (#12959330)
I like expounder, definitely haven't seen something like that before. I'd like it if there was an option to have the expanded text highligted in some way, just so I can keep track of everything mentally.
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by simplify on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:24PM (#12960078)
Having it reversible would be nice, too. Knowing the click is irreversible gives an uneasy feeling.
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by StavrosK on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:07PM (#12960490)
There is an option, it's detailed in the docs. I don't like it on by default, but some people (like you) do, so I added it.
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by alexdowad on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:38PM (#12960225)
Spamnesty is really amusing! It would be even better if your bot had a wider variety of responses.

I foresee that sooner or later, your bot will get stuck in an endless conversation with a spambot which keeps replying, leading to another round of replies and then another...

Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by icebraining on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @04:41AM (#12965650)
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by el_isma on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @09:06AM (#12966876)
"Greetings from the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation"

Well, that's fitting...

Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by StavrosK on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:05PM (#12960475)
Haha, this already happened, I think the 22 response one was a bot. I have a ~8 hour delay before I stop it, so luckily I noticed it and deleted one of my responses.
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by joe563323 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:42AM (#12974966)
Wow. so many things. Please consider taking time to write about how you are able to be so much productive. Just Curious, how old are you ?
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by StavrosK on Monday November 21, 2016 @04:21PM (#13009321)
I'm 33. I don't think there's much of a secret in productivity, I just like these things so much that I prioritize them over other things.
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by haylem on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:40AM (#12967881)
Spamnesty is nothing short of amazing! :)

I hope you'll also distribute the code so hopefully anyone not necessary trusting your service to not harvest email addresses or resell them (or get hacked) would be able to deploy that on a custom server.

In any case, was very fun to read.

Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by haylem on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:53AM (#12968067)
Actually I just noticed that your repo is available. Awesome!
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by StavrosK on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:57PM (#12969525)
Yep! Feel free to issue merge requests for features!
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by mkagenius on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:47AM (#12957899)
> Dead man's switch, a website to email people after you die:

Whats your thoughts and learnings on this one... it seems dark to me.. but i might be completely wrong..

Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by StavrosK on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:58AM (#12957971)
It's pretty dark, but what can you do? You won't avoid death by avoiding thinking about it.
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by sovok on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:54PM (#12961020)
I'm using historio.us for three years now, it's great. Thanks for that :)
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by StavrosK on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:07PM (#12963995)
Thank you, I'm glad you like it!
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by toddmorey on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:21PM (#12961828)
Those photos are absolutely stunning.
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by StavrosK on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:08PM (#12963997)
Thank you, I'm a novice so I'm kind of insecure about them, so your kind words mean a lot to me.
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by pkd on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:04AM (#12958019)
That's a great body of work!
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by StavrosK on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:07PM (#12960497)
Thank you, the face isn't too bad either!
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by id122015 on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:14AM (#12958628)
that Dead mans switch type of project is only funny when you want others to use it.

That idea alone should make us reflect if we had lived a life being true to ourselves and told everyone what we wanted them to hear.

OK, next its my turn: Ill create a dating bot that contacts users on Valentines day, and invites them to restaurant if they will still be single next year. How does it feel ?

Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by tree_of_item on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:16AM (#12959288)
I can't tell what point you're trying to make here.

And how exactly does your dating example work? It invites them only if they agree to stay single for a year?

Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by toennisforst on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:44PM (#12964591)
I think parent assumes users send their confessions and sins to people after they die instead of clearing things up beforehand or living an honest life. Says more about himself/herself than the product IMHO.