Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by pdonis on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:35PM (#31020596)

> Hundreds! Doesn't everyone?

I certainly have. Interestingly, one was the same "sanity check" program for my internet connection, because of the same ISP you mention. Amazing coincidence...I don't think. :-)

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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by mauvehaus on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @10:37PM (#31022881)

I ginned up a "wait for the internet to come back up" script that repeatedly pinged something with one packet, and used the Mac 'open' command to play an mp3 file once the ping succeeded. Unsexy, but when you can't google up a better solution...

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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by ralgozino on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @10:59PM (#31022987)

I made something similar but I used macos' `say` command instead :)

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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by cdaringe on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:15PM (#31062916)

I like this idea. Some company that I may or may not work for either does or does not install malware on our computers, extending the boot sequence and something in the network layer that makes it take MINUTES for anything http to be usable, even after the DE is loaded. Would love to add such a script to my login’s boot sequence

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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by brk on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:57PM (#31020800)

Add another Comcast outage checker and logger to the pile. Used to call and hassle them for outage refunds regularly.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by inetknght on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @06:23PM (#31021033)

Chalk me up to that too. And my brother. Originally I'd used Ping Plotter. When I went 100% Linux I stopped using that. My brother ended up putting together a Grafana board tied to influxdb & infping and monitors several friend and family internet connections complete with alerts.

Here [0] is a screenshot of the Comcast cable connection from a year and a half ago. I have since switched to AT&T gigabit fiber. Here [1] is a screenshot from today.

[0]: https://knightoftheinter.net/img/20201102143900.png

[1]: https://knightoftheinter.net/img/Screenshot_20220413_171934....

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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by jmartens on Thursday April 14, 2022 @05:03PM (#31033272)

I love that you are crowdsourcing data from several friends and family members. We need this for most of the SaaS world!

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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by ahmedalsudani on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @09:37PM (#31022473)

Hah. I did not realize that was an option. Should have been keeping track of downtime :)

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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by tessierashpool on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:54PM (#31020775)

I've written one too, if you count a simple shell alias for ping google.com

Comcast "service" has probably driven the creation of more trivial internet connection test programs than any college course in the world.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by oblib on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:14AM (#31023342)

I get more calls from users of my apps that have Comcast as the access provider than any other, and by far. The first thing I do when they have connection issues is check downdetector.com

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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by OrderlyTiamat on Thursday April 14, 2022 @06:47AM (#31025179)

Mine uses notify-send to send a notification when connection is back up/ when connection goes down.

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