What are some "toy programs" you've created?

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I've written an entire android app just for myself. I couldnt find anything with the features or widgets i wanted so i just made it myself. Presumably because widgets reduce the need to open the app and that reduces ad revenue.

My userbase is currently me and one friend

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I started self-hosting as a hobby and while I enjoy it, I was getting frustrated with file transfers between my computer, phone and two raspberry pi's. Since I was already using rsync, I created a tool for myself to help sort rsync commands into sortable files.

I can now lump together those files into a single command and run several rsync commands in one go.

It's definitely saved me some sanity by not having to refer to a wall of text full of rsync aliases.

I posted it on codeberg.

It is random code on the internet and it involves file transfers so if anyone uses it, those are the risks unless you care to read the code itself.

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I haven’t written many utility scripts/programs in a while but my apartment is fully automated with temperature, humidity, light, presence and door sensors.

We like to keep our screen doors open when the weather is nice so I have things like fans, heating, air conditioning automated but set to turn off when a door(s) is open.

The outdoor lights are also automated but I have them turn green/blue when it’s foggy or rainy and they turn red when there is aircraft above.

Before smartphones started using random MAC addresses on WiFi I also automated some things depending which guests we had over, but I haven’t done that in a long time.

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A "full update script" so I don't forget a package manager. It should probably be an alias but whatever, I run the script

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Pi and touch screen photo frame . it reads a photos dir and just sets it as the background randomly every 5 mins using "feh" and "cron".

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I wrote a link handler, that allows me to just click on magnet: links or open torrent files and send them to my remote torrent client. I use this almost daily.

I also built a torrent crawler that fetches multiple torrent sites and shows me the new stuff, while filtering out shit quality stuff and things I already have.

And then I built a viewer with search for multiple defunct story sites I crawled years ago.

Those tools I use all the damn time.

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I have a lot of comic book boxes:

I created a script that lets me query the database to return the box numbers for certain content.

I can search by writer, artist, title, character, notes, even down to issue number.

What I'd LIKE to do is hook it into a voice recognition system and smart lights and get it to light up the boxes "Wheel of Fortune" style. But I'm aways off that yet.

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It's not an answer, but I really hate how hard this is to do on Android, including it's FOSS versions. You can root it and do something like that then, but that undercuts the whole system design and is a terrible hack.

That's like my main beef with the whole mobile ecosystem.

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That’s a lot of comic books.

What’s the value of a collection like that?

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Back over 10+ years ago on the original raspberry pi, I made a butler program. Every hour on top of the hour, it would use espeak to say what my schedule was, the current internet usage (there was max usage of 100gb) and a couple of other things. It worked really well for years.

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I made a browser extension to make downloading Minecraft mods easier. It would scrape the curseforge page you're visiting, search for the mod on modrinth, and redirect you if it found one. It was actually very useful when I needed it, I even put it on the extension stores and it gained some users.

I also have a small collection of random python numpy and matplotlib utilities. I need to do some basic graphs and data analysis for uni, and this simplifies it a lot.

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Hard to say, it's been years since I've done a full inventory and I have books signed by people who have since passed away.

Working on a current inventory now.

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I made a D&D character generator once.

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That’s really cool!

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Cowsay as a Service. A Go microservice that lets you send form or json http post with curl or whatever to an api over the internet and in return you get the cowsay ascii art you requested.

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I have one deployed project using a raspberry pi.

A water temp meter that reports the water temp at a local swimming hole to a private webpage. Built using a raspberry pi zero w, a timer, an MC battery, a DS18B20 sensor and a bash script running as a service on bootup.

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I basically rewrote all of polybar using eww widgets because I didn't like how polybar was too rigid in certain aspects.

So lots of scripts handling audio control, dark/light mode, i3 workspace switching, media control, login session management, weather widgets calling external APIs, etc. It was a whole ecosystem of tools and widgets.

I just recently bought a new computer with an AMD GPU so I'm finally running Hyprland, and now I'm using Waybar. But I might start a project to do it all again using Astal. Who knows. Or maybe Waybar will be able to suffice. We shall see.

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What kind of hardware do you need for all this crazy sci-fi shit? 🤯

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script that saves the current buffer of my continously running screen recorder to a file

Curious to know why you are continuously recording your screen. Must fill up your hard drives really quickly?

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Why: I case I want to show something unplanned to someone. Freak accident in a game, for example.
Disk: It's only keeping the latest 30 minutes in a buffer. Saving basically means copying that buffer to a different file.

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What are some "toy programs" you've created?