Show HN: Gaming Gaiden: A lightweight gaming time tracker in PowerShell
3 by kulvind3r | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi Everyone, I made a Powershell application to track time spent playing pc / emulated games. It provides many other interesting statistics as well over long term that can add value to someone's gaming hobby imo. I used to use a closed source program called Gameplay Time Tracker for time tracking focused on gaming, but overtime it started failing and throwing exceptions everywhere. I tried reaching to its Developer to ask if they can open source it and i can fix the problems. I couldn't raise them. It had been truly abandoned. After a while i just decided to build a replacement. Few choices that may seem strange, using Powershell for a GUI application, building the GUI with HTML, CSS and JS instead of native windows forms. All of these were made because i am not a windows app dev / GUI dev. I am infra engineer and have strong scripting skills. Instead of getting bogged down in learning a whole programming language like C# and .Net., decided to go with Powershell. DataTables and ChartJs made it trivial to create the UI. Pragmatic choices over conventional wisdom basically. It turned out well in my opinion. Got some attention on reddit and in a youtube channel. Thought it would be good to share here as well.
3 by kulvind3r | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi Everyone, I made a Powershell application to track time spent playing pc / emulated games. It provides many other interesting statistics as well over long term that can add value to someone's gaming hobby imo. I used to use a closed source program called Gameplay Time Tracker for time tracking focused on gaming, but overtime it started failing and throwing exceptions everywhere. I tried reaching to its Developer to ask if they can open source it and i can fix the problems. I couldn't raise them. It had been truly abandoned. After a while i just decided to build a replacement. Few choices that may seem strange, using Powershell for a GUI application, building the GUI with HTML, CSS and JS instead of native windows forms. All of these were made because i am not a windows app dev / GUI dev. I am infra engineer and have strong scripting skills. Instead of getting bogged down in learning a whole programming language like C# and .Net., decided to go with Powershell. DataTables and ChartJs made it trivial to create the UI. Pragmatic choices over conventional wisdom basically. It turned out well in my opinion. Got some attention on reddit and in a youtube channel. Thought it would be good to share here as well.