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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: 0.209s | 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. Traubenfuchs ◴[28 Apr 23 05:36 UTC] No.35737801[source]▶
I built an image viewer application in winforms that allows

- infinitely big or small resizing

- has no visible borders

- has a close all button

- windows size enforces image aspect ratio

- taskbar item thumbnail is the image

- can be moved by clicking and pulling it anywhere (besides resize borders)

- can be moved beyond the edges of the screen (no kind of snapping, like pushing windows below the top border)

I used it for more effeciently using and managing my screen space during masturbation to images and it was a testiment to my almost complete mastery over winforms and p/invoke and the low level windows window api at the time.