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

1901 points l2silver | 3 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.791s | 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. tiborsaas ◴[28 Apr 23 13:04 UTC] No.35740797[source]▶
During the lockdown me and my girlfriend to watch movies remotely synced, I wrote a service to sync VNC instances together via websocket. It worked via the web control panel of VLC and a Chrome extension was handling the websocket messages and clicking on the buttons. It even added some indicators to show if we both connected.
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2. cyberbanjo ◴[29 Apr 23 04:53 UTC] No.35750146[source]▶
Would you be willing to share this?
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3. tiborsaas ◴[29 Apr 23 18:55 UTC] No.35755898[source]▶
Here you go: https://github.com/tiborsaas/vlc-sync