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New comment by prell in "I Built My Own Audio Player"

prell — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:40:10 +0000

I come from the times where winamp was the go-to music player. Today, even in the age of streaming services I still keep a local music library organized in folders. So, just as others here in the comments I built myself an old-school music player as a hobby project to listen to my music offline. It's a 1 page html/js app, has full keyboard controls and also features a simple queue mechanism functionality Check it out: https://nobsutils.com/mp

New comment by prell in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

prell — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:29:11 +0000

I keep adding new features to my hobby project at https://nobsutils.com It's a collection of various tools that run locally in your browser. The latest addition is a simple color palette maker https://nobsutils.com/colors

New comment by prell in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

prell — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:23:43 +0000

Every now and then I add new touches to my hobby project at

https://nobsutils.com

It's a collection of small tools that run locally in your browser which, over time, I've built to serve my needs mostly. This has been living on my home NAS for a while. When I created the flashcards maker to help my 10 years old son prepare for a Spelling bee word quiz, it became popular with his schoolmates and I got some new drive to make it public.

New comment by prell in "LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs"

prell — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:17:17 +0000

Can you guys recommend an android app which can do simple edits (mostly data entry) on spreadsheet .ODS files stored locally on the device. Right now I use Collabora but UX is not the best and it feels very slow and unresponsive at times. MS Excel requires conversion to xlsx before you can edit and Google Sheets requires to upload to google drive so neither is an option. Any alternatives?

New comment by prell in "File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface"

prell — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:08:51 +0000

This is great indeed but IMO only tech nerds can really appreciate it. My son is 10 and he never really needs to deal with real files. Nowadays normal kids just go any given app to access their photos or docs or music or movies or really anything. The notion of copying a file has been replaced by sharing, renaming doesn't really exists when it comes to photos for example and folder structure (when available) is some form of tags and labels depending on the particular app. It's sad. What do you think, are files a thing of the past?