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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: 0.793s | 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. generalizations ◴[28 Apr 23 14:21 UTC] No.35741584[source]▶
I like thinking out loud, but don't like having to listen to voice memos. So I created a syncthing folder that is synced between my phones and my home server, and created an iphone shortcut that records voice memos and saves them into that folder (and then opens the iphone syncthing app so that it'll do the sync). I have a cronjob on the server that looks for new audio files in that syncthing folder and transcribes them with whisper, formats them into a nice looking pdf, and sends them to the printer. So now I can be anywhere, record a voice memo, and come home to find it sitting in my printer.
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2. mthoms ◴[28 Apr 23 21:20 UTC] No.35747243[source]▶
This is very practical, I like it. I can’t stand listening to my own voice memos.