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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 3 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.641s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
1. stpe ◴[27 Apr 23 16:28 UTC] No.35730548[source]▶
I really like reading books, non-fiction, fiction, business, everything. But I always tended to have good reading momentum and then life/work happened that derailed the reading habit - and I forgot about it. Took months to pick up again...

To keep reading top of mind I built a Chrome "newtab" extension to show my "Currently Reading" list, and excites me about books I've put as "to-read". It has worked wonders on my reading! And it is pretty small and polished - no tracking, no credentials, just bare-bones.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently-reading/...

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2. specproc ◴[28 Apr 23 20:02 UTC] No.35746382[source]▶
That's smart, and there's so many very simple ways I could go about implementing that. Nice one, I might give that a go.
3. Jeff_Brown ◴[28 Apr 23 23:01 UTC] No.35748233[source]▶
I've tried things like this but my future self feels zero allegiance to what my past self wanted it to read.