u/DegreeRound6527

Classic rubber duck debugging, only now the duck is real and judges me first.

It floats in the corner of your editor, calmly breathing as long as everything is fine, and panics as soon as the build fails. You can message it to "explain your error or idea," and it simply nods without judgment, nodding its head in agreement with any idea. It doesn't talk, and doesn't fix anything. That's the whole point.

It's called Rubber Duck Buddy, and it's free. The link in the comments to this post didn't get caught by the spam filter.

I created it simply because I wanted to. I have no regrets.

Stuffed a full Telegram client into IntelliJ

Kinda realized switching to telegram for talking to friends/coworkers during work isn't always convenient. Also kept ending up in situations where I'd miss messages or forget to reply to someone, etc.

So the idea came up to stuff telegram inside my work ide. Ended up being a plugin with a telegram client inside the ide. I use jetbrains products so that's what I built it for. It's a real client, not a webview wrapping telegram.

Once I started using it actively I thought it'd be cool to send code snippets to coworkers and friends through it. Not git gist where I'd have to expose my git account, and not carbon where I'd be sending/receiving snippets as screenshots.

Thought about code security too. On the server it's stored as encrypted garbage, the decryption key is baked into the URL. When you select a piece of code through the context menu you can send it straight to telegram. Later extended this to logs too.

Also added a code highlighting thing. If your coworker has the same plugin installed, the snippet I send from my Dracula theme automatically renders in their Light theme on their side.

If anyone installs it I'd be happy for feedback. Product's still pretty raw, probably tons of bugs and hidden issues.

IDEGram