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

1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.248s | 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.
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millzlane ◴[27 Apr 23 16:10 UTC] No.35730260[source]▶
Not very interesting, but used VB script to make Netflix sleep timer for the active tab. (looks for the browser process, makes the windows active,sends a ctrl+W to the window to close the video player, and finally sleeps the display.

This way I can fall asleep to noise that doesn't later wake me up.

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1. l2silver ◴[27 Apr 23 16:37 UTC] No.35730705[source]▶
I feel like there's a whole suite of tools that we need to be used with netflix to make our lives easier.