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

[jboi@szmer.info]

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.

[jordanlund@lemmy.world]

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.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

I made a D&D character generator once.

[satansmaggotycumfart@lemmy.world]

That’s really cool!

[pmk@lemmy.sdf.org]

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.

[stoy@lemmy.zip]

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.

[victorz@lemmy.world]

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.

[victorz@lemmy.world]

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

[victorz@lemmy.world]

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?

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

I wrote a coin flip script that randomly calls qlmanage -p tails.jpg / heads.jpg (Mac) to flip a virtual coin.

[swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

orphankiller, because pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq) is too much to type

[typewar@infosec.pub]

I made a website to practice reading my wristwatch: https://aadniz.github.io/niwa-practicer/ (works best on PC, and I'm well aware of many issues)

Since depth is important to recognizing the odd and even, quickly mapping them to the number, I made it "fake" 3D, tracing each layer in krita.

There was no deep motivation for this other than refreshing myself a bit of React from University. With my neverending list of project plans, I felt like this one was a good choice for that. Here is the source code: https://github.com/Aadniz/niwa-practicer

[datavoid@lemmy.ml]

My most used one is a two letter terminal alias (zz for zigzag) that copies all the track information from a specified playlist, or from my “download" playlist if none is provided. It can also read from CSV and text files in order to remove all special characters and repeated words from each name. Then it outputs a formatted version to my clipboard, which I then paste into another program's config file. Then I wait...

[victorz@lemmy.world]

Ah, cool.

Sounds kind of like the Nvidia tool for Windows.

Speaking of which, as well as your use case, I found this tool a while ago that looks and does pretty much the same thing: "GPU Screen Recorder", found on flathub via "com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder".

I hope it comes to use for anyone!

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

I based my setup around Replay Magic ReplaySorcery. I'm sure there are other packages too.

[lightnsfw@reddthat.com]

I wrote a powershell script to rename and reorder about 1000 comic books based off a reading order I put in a csv file once

[mintiefresh@lemmy.ca]

Wow this is really cool. Thanks for sharing!

[victorz@lemmy.world]

Replay Magic

Hmm. Trying to find that. Do you mean ReplaySourcery?

[lime@feddit.nu]

me and a few friends have a dumb chatbot we've been fiddling with for 15 years. started out on irc, moved platforms multiple times, and i'm currently porting it to matrix. it can do poetry, markov chains, tell you when the weekend starts, pull youtube videos, create email aliases, etc.