This tool helps you to convert Excel/OpenOffice table files into ICS files to use them with your smartphone calendar and whatnot.
Build it mainly because I missed the garbage truck twice last year and wanted to ensure that I get their plan on my smartphone without creating single entries for each pickup.
Now I create an Excel file instead (sample provided on the website), convert it, and import the resulting ICS file. Work is still there, but I can share the file with everybody without touching some FAANG calendar infrastructure.
Maybe someone finds it useful, appreciate all feedback.
Hey!
I built a little site to create dummy PDF files. This can be useful for media professionals, especially those working in process automation.
For various reasons you do not want to use real customer data, so you often start up InDesign, create a document with whatever text or image in it and write a PDF from this. Obviously this always takes some time.
To make this process easier, I have finalized lorempdf.com at the weekend. It has been in a "90% done" status for quite some time, but I still had to approve my app for production mode with Unsplash. As I have finally finished this, this little project is good to go.
I would have to google Sam Harris, so I think I got no problem here. But the app is with in-app purchases, too. Are there no good meditation apps without that?
- Setting up a small webservice that creates PDF files with sample data for workflow development. I need this for work as it's easier than working with real customer data. Hopefully others find it useful, too. Will make a ShowHN once it's finished.
- Remade a small landingpage for tshirt-designs with motives for my hometown/area. Used a software called "Bootstrap Studio" for that. I think I found it through HN. Really like it for static one-pagers. Looking into doing more with that.
- Rebuilding an old commercial espresso machine. The electronics were fried, you can't get them as spare parts, so I'm doing a full rebuild. New casing, new electronics but the old mechanical parts. Waiting for the last exchange parts, then I will finish the mechanical work and can look into the electronics.
- Learning French via Duolingo. Been keeping it up for almost 30 days now, Homeoffice made some time for two or three more "lessons" a day. I like it so far.
- Maybe I should start meditating, but I'm not sure where/how to start. I looked into some apps but I find them rather distracting. Maybe I just need to sit in my bed for 10 minutes with closed eyes and everything and just focus on my breath every morning. Any recommendations on how to get this started?
I think this is fine, especially in the way you want to handle it. Even a rough estimation for the price helps, at least me, to make a decision or get further in contact.
And I also understand that vendors are not showing prices _if_ the product is complex. As mentioned, As an example, all the ticketing or live chat solutions are probably not a complex enterprise-grade software (at least not the ones I looked at) so there is no reason not to show prices, imho.
Interesting point and this might be true for some of those sites. But the company that pointed me to their price list after asking for it, had completely normal prices, just like the competitors, too.
Besides that I think that B2B business is changing, too. We're always becoming more agile, have a more distributed stack of tech and services and things, at least for me, get added (and dropped) more easily and often. I think that's good news for smaller vendors.
You're totally right about the fonts, I will fix this in the evening. Also will have a look at outputting image URL and BB code, that's a great idea.
Not sure about the privacy section. I really dislike the full blown law text when there are really only access logs on the Apache and nothing else. :-/
I built this little Tweet-to-Screenshot-service last weekend and thought that maybe some of you might find it interesting or helpful.
Basically it's fetching data from the Embed API/service, piping it to a headless chrome (gives the best render result IMHO) and optimizing the output with Imagemagick and optipng.
Screenshots will be saved after their first generation to improve delivery speed, but will, right now, not be updated after that, so "like count" and more will not be updated. Might look into this as an improvement for v1.1.
Once a Tweet is deleted, the screenshot will also be deleted on the next call. While I find this unfortunate from the point of archiving tweets, I think it's necessary so people don't misuse this to mirror content which is considered to be harmful or illegal.
Next to using the website to generate an image, you can also directly call it. Take the link of a tweet and replace twitter.com with twttrshot.de. The result will be an image you could hotlink or save.
Feel free to play with and use it and drop me a line (mail address is at the bottom of the site) if you find a bug or something else.
Little side project went live last week.
This tool helps you to convert Excel/OpenOffice table files into ICS files to use them with your smartphone calendar and whatnot.
Build it mainly because I missed the garbage truck twice last year and wanted to ensure that I get their plan on my smartphone without creating single entries for each pickup.
Now I create an Excel file instead (sample provided on the website), convert it, and import the resulting ICS file. Work is still there, but I can share the file with everybody without touching some FAANG calendar infrastructure.
Maybe someone finds it useful, appreciate all feedback.