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Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
Hey HN -- thanks for showing interest in this. Happy to collaborate on this project. I'm hoping to get it stable soon so my own family can start using it.<p>I've been working on this for about 10+ years, nights and weekends. It's been really slow going since I only have my own personal data to test it with.<p>I just don't love that my data is primarily stored on someone else's computer up in the cloud. I want my own local copy at least. And while I can download exports from my various accounts, I don't want them to just gather dust and rot on my hard drive.<p>So, Timelinize helps keep that data alive and relevant and in my control. I don't have as much worry if my cloud accounts go away. Hopefully you'll find it useful, and I hope we can collaborate.<p>(PS. I'm open to changing the name. Never really liked this one...)
Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
Hey HN -- thanks for showing interest in this. Happy to collaborate on this project. I'm hoping to get it stable soon so my own family can start using it.<p>I've been working on this for about 10+ years, nights and weekends. It's been really slow going since I only have my own personal data to test it with.<p>I just don't love that my data is primarily stored on someone else's computer up in the cloud. I want my own local copy at least. And while I can download exports from my various accounts, I don't want them to just gather dust and rot on my hard drive.<p>So, Timelinize helps keep that data alive and relevant and in my control. I don't have as much worry if my cloud accounts go away. Hopefully you'll find it useful, and I hope we can collaborate.<p>(PS. I'm open to changing the name. Never really liked this one...)
Show HN: I've build a platform for writing technical/scientific documents
Show HN: I've build a platform for writing technical/scientific documents
Show HN: I've build a platform for writing technical/scientific documents
Show HN: Kent Dybvig's Scheme Machine in 400 Lines of C (Heap-Memory Model)
Show HN: Kent Dybvig's Scheme Machine in 400 Lines of C (Heap-Memory Model)
Show HN: Kent Dybvig's Scheme Machine in 400 Lines of C (Heap-Memory Model)
Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker
Everyone’s chasing AI hype.
I built a Google Sheet and it quietly took off.<p>In 2020, I made it to track my own finances for income, expenses, savings, yearly summaries etc. I shared it once on Reddit, forgot about it for a year… When I checked back, it had over 130k views and I was honestly stoked!<p>No launch. No funding. No AI.
Just a spreadsheet people actually stick with and find useful.<p>I finally gave it a proper home: write-it-down.com
Now, more than 2,300 people use it.<p>It’s intentionally boring and that’s why it works.<p>People don’t always need AI. They just need something that actually solves their problem.
This isn’t a billion-dollar startup of course, but it taught me more about building products than almost anything else.<p>Build something useful.
Solve a real problem.
Even if it’s just a simple spreadsheet.<p>So, what’s the most “boring” thing you’ve built that found unexpected traction?
Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker
Everyone’s chasing AI hype.
I built a Google Sheet and it quietly took off.<p>In 2020, I made it to track my own finances for income, expenses, savings, yearly summaries etc. I shared it once on Reddit, forgot about it for a year… When I checked back, it had over 130k views and I was honestly stoked!<p>No launch. No funding. No AI.
Just a spreadsheet people actually stick with and find useful.<p>I finally gave it a proper home: write-it-down.com
Now, more than 2,300 people use it.<p>It’s intentionally boring and that’s why it works.<p>People don’t always need AI. They just need something that actually solves their problem.
This isn’t a billion-dollar startup of course, but it taught me more about building products than almost anything else.<p>Build something useful.
Solve a real problem.
Even if it’s just a simple spreadsheet.<p>So, what’s the most “boring” thing you’ve built that found unexpected traction?
Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder
Modern macOS versions open folders in seemingly random positions and sizes. This set of scripts restores the behaviour known to classic macOS, where:<p>- folders remember where they were on the screen<p>- folders remember how big they were<p>This enables you to utilise the brain's superb spatial memory for file management.
Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder
Modern macOS versions open folders in seemingly random positions and sizes. This set of scripts restores the behaviour known to classic macOS, where:<p>- folders remember where they were on the screen<p>- folders remember how big they were<p>This enables you to utilise the brain's superb spatial memory for file management.
Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder
Modern macOS versions open folders in seemingly random positions and sizes. This set of scripts restores the behaviour known to classic macOS, where:<p>- folders remember where they were on the screen<p>- folders remember how big they were<p>This enables you to utilise the brain's superb spatial memory for file management.
Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board
I've made an ASCII drawing board.
You can set any brush, canvas size, export art as a text file.<p>I want to keep it as manual/analog as possible, hence there is no tool for converting image to ASCII.<p>Prompting LLMs to draw ASCII art turned out to be a difficult task <i>.
So instead I decided to ask it make a drawing board. Wihtout coding agent I wouldn't even try myself. Although it is an interesting task, it would drift me away.<p>Basically it's just a drawing board with endless variations of textures and brushes: when you make large canvas and zoom out you don't see ASCII anymore, but textured drawing.
E.g. this is a cat: <a href="https://x.com/delopsu_com/status/1971726204073136219" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/delopsu_com/status/1971726204073136219</a>, brush used: " ".<p>I would appreciate if you could give it a try and tell your people about it, if it's something that may be of their interest.
Also please give any feedback here or on X.<p></i> turns out there is already (or is emerging) ASCII benchmark for LLMs.
Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board
I've made an ASCII drawing board.
You can set any brush, canvas size, export art as a text file.<p>I want to keep it as manual/analog as possible, hence there is no tool for converting image to ASCII.<p>Prompting LLMs to draw ASCII art turned out to be a difficult task <i>.
So instead I decided to ask it make a drawing board. Wihtout coding agent I wouldn't even try myself. Although it is an interesting task, it would drift me away.<p>Basically it's just a drawing board with endless variations of textures and brushes: when you make large canvas and zoom out you don't see ASCII anymore, but textured drawing.
E.g. this is a cat: <a href="https://x.com/delopsu_com/status/1971726204073136219" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/delopsu_com/status/1971726204073136219</a>, brush used: " ".<p>I would appreciate if you could give it a try and tell your people about it, if it's something that may be of their interest.
Also please give any feedback here or on X.<p></i> turns out there is already (or is emerging) ASCII benchmark for LLMs.
Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board
I've made an ASCII drawing board.
You can set any brush, canvas size, export art as a text file.<p>I want to keep it as manual/analog as possible, hence there is no tool for converting image to ASCII.<p>Prompting LLMs to draw ASCII art turned out to be a difficult task <i>.
So instead I decided to ask it make a drawing board. Wihtout coding agent I wouldn't even try myself. Although it is an interesting task, it would drift me away.<p>Basically it's just a drawing board with endless variations of textures and brushes: when you make large canvas and zoom out you don't see ASCII anymore, but textured drawing.
E.g. this is a cat: <a href="https://x.com/delopsu_com/status/1971726204073136219" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/delopsu_com/status/1971726204073136219</a>, brush used: " ".<p>I would appreciate if you could give it a try and tell your people about it, if it's something that may be of their interest.
Also please give any feedback here or on X.<p></i> turns out there is already (or is emerging) ASCII benchmark for LLMs.
Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT
Hey HN,<p>I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools.<p>For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for,<p>- Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url (encode, decode)<p>- Hashing: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512<p>- Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5), token, lorem, random<p>- Text Processing: case (lower, upper, camel, title, constant, header, sentence, snake), pretty-print, diff<p>- Development Tools: calc, json (builder), regex, datetime<p>- Web & Network: http (status), serve, qr<p>- Color & Design: color (convert)<p>- Reference: unicode<p>For full disclosure, parts of the toolkit were built with Claude Code (I wanted to use this as an opportunity to play with it more).
Feel free to open feature requests and/or contribute.
Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT
Hey HN,<p>I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools.<p>For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for,<p>- Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url (encode, decode)<p>- Hashing: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512<p>- Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5), token, lorem, random<p>- Text Processing: case (lower, upper, camel, title, constant, header, sentence, snake), pretty-print, diff<p>- Development Tools: calc, json (builder), regex, datetime<p>- Web & Network: http (status), serve, qr<p>- Color & Design: color (convert)<p>- Reference: unicode<p>For full disclosure, parts of the toolkit were built with Claude Code (I wanted to use this as an opportunity to play with it more).
Feel free to open feature requests and/or contribute.
Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT
Hey HN,<p>I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools.<p>For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for,<p>- Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url (encode, decode)<p>- Hashing: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512<p>- Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5), token, lorem, random<p>- Text Processing: case (lower, upper, camel, title, constant, header, sentence, snake), pretty-print, diff<p>- Development Tools: calc, json (builder), regex, datetime<p>- Web & Network: http (status), serve, qr<p>- Color & Design: color (convert)<p>- Reference: unicode<p>For full disclosure, parts of the toolkit were built with Claude Code (I wanted to use this as an opportunity to play with it more).
Feel free to open feature requests and/or contribute.
Show HN: Pyscn – Python code quality analyzer for vibe coders
Hi HN! I built pyscn for Python developers in the vibe coding era.
If you're using Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT to ship Python code fast, you know the feeling: features work, tests pass, but the codebase feels... messy.<p>Common vibe coding artifacts:<p>• Code duplication (from copy-pasted snippets)<p>• Dead code from quick iterations<p>• Over-engineered solutions for simple problems<p>• Inconsistent patterns across modules<p>pyscn performs structural analysis:<p>• APTED tree edit distance + LSH<p>• Control-Flow Graph (CFG) analysis<p>• Coupling Between Objects (CBO)<p>• Cyclomatic Complexity<p>Try it without installation:<p><pre><code> uvx pyscn analyze . # Using uv (fastest)
pipx run pyscn analyze . # Using pipx
(Or install: pip install pyscn)
</code></pre>
Built with Go + tree-sitter. Happy to dive into the implementation details!