My Dad worked for a small town and they needed a billing system for water and electricity in the early 90s. He learned C and wrote the entire billing system from scratch. It looked and worked amazing for a dos program of the time. After he passed away in 2021 they got new computers and ended up getting a new billing software and his software was never saved anywhere :(
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djinnrutger commented on AI Code assistants has made completing side projects so easy · Posted by u/akmittal
I am not comparing myself to you (or any developer) I know the basics of code and play around, but with AI tools like VSCode and CoPilot subscription I have done some crazy stuff that would have either been impossible or years worth of work for me. I have been working with Python and created a few tools that saved me tons of time every day. I do side computer/networking work and I was able to build my own invoicing application to bill and track everything. My latest project has been an IT helpdesk for our internal IT team. I am sure the code is not good by your standards but these tools are amazing for what I use them for. What scares me is if someone with my level "skill" would create programs that become mission critical and think nothing of it...that is asking for trouble..at least with where we are at with AI right now.
I am pretty proud of my helpdesk: website: https://helpfuldjinn.com/ or via the github: https://github.com/DjinnRutger/HelpDesk-Public
It has been a great adventure seeing what AI has enabled to be done!
I use Nomacs Image Lounge as my default image view on windows. It works really well and it can convert images including HEIC too. Only issue is I think the newer HEIC may not work, but I saw that the newer version on the github may have addressed this but I have not tested.
https://nomacs.org/https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs
djinnrutger commented on Ask HN: Claude Opus 4.5 vs. GPT 5.1 Codex Max for coding. Worth the upgrade? · Posted by u/terabytest
I have been using VSCode / CoPilot with Opus 4.5 and it has been working the best of any of the system I have tried. Very happy with it so far. I never really got good results with GPT5.1. though 5.2 seems better...but not by alot, so I will stick with Opus 4.5 for now.
I am still working on my helpdesk. An easy to use self-hosted IT Helpdesk system for small IT teams. Vibe coding it with VSCode and CoPilot. I started this project when I needed my own helpdesk and didnt want to pay a fortune online providers. It runs on Python with Flask and Sqalchemy. It can be ran from the python files, or the executable is portable and can be ran from any windows computer. It stays in the network but I run with a ZeroTier connection so I can access it from anywhere without the risk of it being live on the internet.
Features I have implemented so far: Ticketing (duh), Email va MS Graph for MS office, Documents for info/repeat answers, Purchasing, Inventory, Projects -group of tickets)
New features I just added in the last month is Ticket Approvals if you need a managers approval for purchasing something or assigning a licenses to someone.
djinnrutger commented on Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas? · Posted by u/JamesSwift
My daughter and her boyfriend - matching headsets for gaming (one black and one pink). My son (who is a Marine) a box full of snacks that he cant get overseas.
Claude Code is amazing (I assume that is what you mean by Codex) it integrates into your terminal. The biggest advantage over Cursor is the use of Agents to automate your workflow. an Example is you can have a FileNaming Agent that you give a list of instructions to for whenever a new file is created so it is named a certain way, or a Comment Agent with instructions of whenever a comment is created in your code it puts certain information in. Maybe you can do this all in Cursor too but I dont know how. Also you dont need to pay for the API as you can just use your account to log into Claude Code.
djinnrutger commented on Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup) printcalendar.top/... · Posted by u/defcc
That works really good! Awesome job!
I am working on a easy to use self-hosted IT Helpdesk system for small IT teams. Vibe coding it with VSCode and CoPilot. I started this project when I needed my own helpdesk and didnt want to pay a fortune online providers.
https://helpfuldjinn.com/https://github.com/DjinnRutger/HelpDesk-Public