To keep a long story short, I was laid off in November, and decided to use the free time when not job searching to improve my coding skills while making life as a disc golfer a little bit easier. Fast-forward to today and I have a fully baked application that makes finding the right disc super easy!
So what does the tool do, exactly?
When the locally stored data is 1 month old, the tool will go ahead and update it, but this can also be done manually if you want (right now there are flight numbers for 844 discs included).
InfiniteDiscs was very supportive in what I was doing here, and I wanted to make sure that was socialized as well.
Anyway, the short and sweet to using the tools is to do the following;
Full Disclosure: After showing InfiniteDiscs the tool, they set me up as an affiliate so if you do choose to use the links the tool provides for purchasing discs, they are tracking that and will give me a cut, which being unemployed I would greatly appreciate right now. That said, purchasing from them is NOT necessary to use the tool. I fully intend on the tool staying 100% free.
- MacOS: https://bitbucket.org/biscuits/discsearcher/downloads/discsearcher-v2020.364-darwin64.zip
- Linux: https://bitbucket.org/biscuits/discsearcher/downloads/discsearcher-v2020.364-linux64.zip
- Windows: https://bitbucket.org/biscuits/discsearcher/downloads/discsearcher-v2020.364-win64.zip
So what does the tool do, exactly?
- Connect to InfiniteDiscs to get the flight numbers for every single disc they sell. Store locally.
- Allow you to search all of their discs by Manufacturer, Name, Speed, Glide, Turn, and/or Fade.
- Allows you to search specifically or even use regular expressions to match many things simultaneously.
When the locally stored data is 1 month old, the tool will go ahead and update it, but this can also be done manually if you want (right now there are flight numbers for 844 discs included).
InfiniteDiscs was very supportive in what I was doing here, and I wanted to make sure that was socialized as well.
Anyway, the short and sweet to using the tools is to do the following;
- Download zip package for your OS
- Extract it
- Navigate into the newly created "discsearcher" directory
- Execute the program (./discsearcher on MacOS\Linux, or discsearcher.exe for Windows)
Full Disclosure: After showing InfiniteDiscs the tool, they set me up as an affiliate so if you do choose to use the links the tool provides for purchasing discs, they are tracking that and will give me a cut, which being unemployed I would greatly appreciate right now. That said, purchasing from them is NOT necessary to use the tool. I fully intend on the tool staying 100% free.
haha. J/K. 
