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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: 0.333s | 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. georgeburdell ◴[28 Apr 23 05:30 UTC] No.35737767[source]▶
Not really sophisticated but I wrote a ~200 line Python script to trawl a few data sources like USPTO and Reddit and aggregate that info into an e-mail for me to review daily. It was extremely helpful in getting me up to speed in a new job that I lacked the background for.