Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000488

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Originally inspired by the stream deck, but I wanted a more dynamic interface and less hardware restrictions. For example you can use your phone as the controller.

Now it can do a whole lot more. Including mouse, keyboard, media controls. Supports custom buttons types and things like sliders and color pickers. Dynamically switches layout based on foreground app, and can also control which app is in the foreground from the controller itself. Having a lot of fun so there are a bunch more features in the hopper like deeper app integration, and an eink version.

Its a web app/PWA, so no app store needed.

If you are worried about privacy, get a domain just for this. Use domain privacy and dont host other things there.

Yes, some sites whitelist domains or dont allow subdomains. For those I'll use another account - or a firefox alias or something. But 9 out of 10 work fine.

I am not a fan of alias services since materializing names takes discipline. How many do you make? Maybe there is a limit of 50. When do you share them across services? My guess is many people just create 2 or 3 aliases they use for everything - which defeats the purpose. Sure, it masks your personal address, but once one gets compromised, you find it basically served as your personal address anyway.

I also dont really keep track of most of the names I use. Since most are one time things that I would never use again, like to sign a waiver or something. But I mostly stick to '{domain}@' for the names. So my nytimes account would just be nytimes@, which is predictable when I need to recover it. I used to use addy.io for this, but it was not as good since it had account limits and I had to manually manage every alias. Much easier for me to just create a mail filter to sinkhole an old name. Of course I have never really needed to do this anyway.

nytimes@mailsub.example.com -> jono@gmail

anything-else@mailsub.example.com -> jono@gmail

You dont even need to materialize aliases at all.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573309

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762154

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Built as a single-user web app with async task queues for background yt-dlp downloads. Key features: - Handles playlists, embeds, direct URLs via yt-dlp (500+ sites) - Auto-detects audio/video; optional ffmpeg transcoding - Multi-language UI/subtitles (i18n docs in repo) - Extractive summarization from subtitles - One-click bookmarklet for ingestion - Admin CLI/web UI for management - Demo: https://demo.stashcast.dgt.is/ (demo/demo backwards; read-only)

Motivation: Friends send random podcast eps/YouTube vids. I want to watch them all, but later when I have time (and may be offline).

Repo: https://github.com/jonocodes/stashcast

Feedback welcome on UX, yt-dlp edge cases, or self-host scaling!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688060

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