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1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.883s | 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. archer2298 ◴[] No.35820013[source]
In 9th grade I would text my crush from my mom's phone and would later delete the entire conversation since I didn't want others to read them.

I just wanted a way to save these messages in a way others couldn't read them.

We had just started to learn Java. I used the basics I picked from school to write a cipher program which would take some plain text, a pass key and generate encrypted text. Although, I didn't know at the time (but realized couple years later) that I actually coded a little extension of our age old favorite Caesar cipher.

This brought back so many memories!