I spent my weekend building the most unnecessary portfolio feature - a real dark modeyour cursor is now a flashlight. everything else? complete darkness. move around to read. that's it.why? please don't ask that question :)you can try it out on my website - https://www.pankajtanwar.in/ (theme switch on top right - works better in desktop though)original thread -...
I twisted my foot while playing badminton. The doctor said the best way to recover is to keep it elevated. But I couldn’t really track whether my foot was in the proper elevated position or not.So, I built a little app to solve this. Every smartphone already has motion sensors inside it. The accelerometer (measures movement in X, Y, Z directions) and the gyroscope (measures tilt and rotation)....
I built a little script that gives me a fake phone call to escape boring and awkward situations. I bought a virtual number from twilio and saved it as one of my relatives.Whenever I feel stuck, I just tap a button called “ESCAPE” on my phone. It sends a request to my remote server. The server runs a small Python script which schedules an actual call. After a minute, my phone rings and plays a...
Hi all,I kept wasting time on social media, even though I’d promised myself I’d stay focused. Regular site blockers didn’t help.I needed something that felt annoying enough to break the habit. That’s how the idea came up: make the blocker ask me to say something embarrassing out loud before it lets me back in. If I actually have to yell “I’m a loser” into my mic. Even better - the louder I...
https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/time-to-hack
Most websites suck at telling you if your password is actually secure. They are still stuck in the 2000s, using outdated password rules. They check for symbols, numbers, uppercase letters—then rate Password1! as “strong”. But any real attacker cracks that in minutes.I got tired of these outdated rules that don’t reflect actual security. So I built Time To Hack. This Chrome extension estimates...