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emilehereon Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

https://github.com/pokulabs/twilio-frontend

I threw together a UI for sending & receiving Twilio SMS messages. Was surprised by the lack of free options, FOSS or otherwise.

emilehereon Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys

After having executed an involved ssh connection, my brain often opts to keep working on whatever I needed to use that remote machine for, instead of switching context and saving the details in ~/.ssh/config, even if I expect to use the connection details again.

So I understand the desire to manage both of those tasks, connecting and persisting, from one tool. I wrote a similar little utility that does this by adding a persist option to built-in ssh. https://github.com/emileindik/slosh

emilehereon Show HN: File-based cache for slow Python functions

Reminds me of a little prototype I wrote a while ago that tried to do something similar with Javascript's Proxy class. https://github.com/emileindik/cashola

The main difference is that it stores the state of an object, not a function.

If your data is JSON serializable then it could be a cool way to save and resume application state.

emilehereon Differential: Type safe RPC that feels like local functions

I'm curious if people's qualms around abstracting the cloud/network also apply to the https://modal.com product. Differential seems like a similar project at its core, just focused on the Typescript + microservices ecosystem.

emilehereon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

On the TODO!

emilehereon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

Ya! Just search for "Central European Time". You can test it by highlighting the line above this comment (or this comment itself):

"emilehere 2 hours ago"

emilehereon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

Calzone is a Chrome extension for converting between timezones, just by highlighting text. It runs purely client-side.

Helps me schedule international meetings when writing emails.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/calzone/ahnbgncjjn...

emilehereon Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

Nice! Was thinking it'd be cool to have a little tool that calculates the height of an object (tree, building, etc) given the length of its shadow and the time of day (GPS coords might also be necessary).

Seems like you've already performed most of the necessary calculations here.