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

1901 points l2silver | 2 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.431s | 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. neon_me ◴[28 Apr 23 06:49 UTC] No.35738266[source]▶
My ex used to be pissed when I spent whole day coding and dont wrote her a single message...

It was way back before gpt and twilio, so I bent one IRC bot and wrote collection of warm messages that was send via SMS on a pseudorandom timeframe. We broke up when she finds out ... Luckly for both of us I guess.

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2. rft ◴[28 Apr 23 07:34 UTC] No.35738555[source]▶
This reminded me of this internet folklore: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/249-now-thats-what-i-call-a-...

There is also a recreation of the scripts at https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts