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1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.236s | 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. nier ◴[] No.35759743[source]
As a color-blind person, most of the time when stuff on screen was only differentiated by color (like red/green status indicators), the go-to-tool would be the system’s digital colorimeter for me.

It was tiresome to have to launch an extra application and inspect RGB percentages to derive what color I was supposed to see.

The colorimeter I made activates while holding down an inconsequential modifier key on the keyboard and shows the name of the color.

Now I can also quickly double-press that modifier key and copy the color value to the clipboard.