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Dozens, one of the more outwardly useful ones notifies me of a certain band's latest LP drop (basically just queries shopify's public-facing JSON for any shop y
by bexsella 4y ago
Dozens, one of the more outwardly useful ones notifies me of a certain band's latest LP drop (basically just queries shopify's public-facing JSON for any shop you give it).
I've also got a stupid one: a mouse waggler. My work enforces screen lock times to be 5 minutes, and I have two computers, one on an air gapped network. So when development happened in the air gapped PC, and I inevitably had to look up docs for something, I would always be prompted for my password. So, I made a program that nudged my mouse just slightly every five minutes. That has essentially turned into my Windows API test bed. Someone will ask, how hard will it be to implement X for Windows? I'll try and find a use for it in this waggler, and look how to implement it.
This has also lead to the waggler part being obsoleted by one function call:
SetThreadExecutionState(ES_CONTINUOUS | ES_DISPLAY_REQUIRED);
It's now a full GUI program with all sorts of timers and reminder things, it also happens to keep my screen on.
- ornornor 4y agoI also made a mouse jiggler because of a former job’s inflexible screen locking policy. I made mine hardware with a small MCU that plugged into USB and looked exactly like my work-issued mouse (vendor id, device id, etc) It was hardware because I didn’t want it to show anywhere (we were technically not allowed to install unapproved software even if it meant we couldn’t do our job and it was a selectively enforceable fireable offense) It worked very well and was shaking 5px left 5px right every minute. It was so little that you wouldn’t notice while actively using the computer.