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Ask HN: What cool software utilities have you created?

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Question inspired by this recent thread:

Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37033652

https://letsblock.it : it allows you to create your own content blocking rule list from a corpus or community-maintained templates. It allows you to hide pinterest and stackoverflow clones from search results, remove shorts and upcoming streams from youtube, and many more. The project is now two years old and sustaining a slow but steady growth with an active community.

Interesting.

I saw that it uses uBlock Origin. Going to try it. Thank you.

I ported my friend's programming language from Python to TypeScript[1], and its one of the projects I'm proud of. Another (scrapped) one would be my CLI Jed translation file editor, written in NodeJS. It was scrapped due to inefficiency and the lack of motivation to work on it.

[1]: https://github.com/mdwalters/TSCPL

Interesting.

Did you hand-code everything, or use some parsing library or a parser generator?

Yes, I hand-coded everything, and split the parser from the frontend, for easier maintenance, and usability in outside scripts.

Cool. Modularity. I often do that too. Core functionality in a lib, so can call from any UI (CLI, GUI, web, even daemon or background process).

The Logfile Navigator (https://lnav.org), a logfile viewer for the terminal. Started it in 2006 and have used it most every day since to view the logs of whatever software I was working on at the time.

Great that you are using it for so long. Dogfooding is great for improving a product.

The Automatic Log Format Detection, Query using SQL and Headless Mode features seem quite useful, apart from lnav itself!

Just want to thank you for such a great tool! I use it everyday when developing locally.

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