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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: 0.377s | 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. dhuan_ ◴[28 Apr 23 08:43 UTC] No.35738954[source]▶
mock - language agnostic API mocking and testing utility https://github.com/dhuan/mock

I built it because I needed an easy way to set-up API endpoints that weren't implemented yet by some other team. After a while I open-sourced it.

wikicmd https://github.com/dhuan/wikicmd

Navigating through mediawiki to get pages edited all time requires a bunch of clicks. I wanted to be able to quickly edit wiki pages using any editor program instead of the browser.