A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
caniname: CLI tool to check project name availability across Netlify and NPM (and other sources)
Whenever I build a new tool or custom element (like <show-keystrokes> or <rich-input>), I always end up doing the same manual dance: checking if the package name is still free on NPM and if the matching <name>.netlify.app subdomain is still unclaimed on Netlify. To automate that check, I built caniname.
jless — A command-line JSON viewer
jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data. Installation via Homebrew brew install jless jless — A command-line JSON viewer →jless Source (GitHub) → Related: jq – flexible command-line JSON processor
Now this is a handy app when working on a Mac with a multi-screen setup. Control your display’s brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs. Depending on which display your cursor is over at, the keystrokes …
DevToys helps in daily tasks like formatting JSON, comparing text, testing RegExp. No need to use many untruthful websites to do simple tasks with your data. Contains some handy tools like a Json to Yaml and Yaml to Json converter, JWT Decoder, base64 encoder/decoder, etc. Windows only, but a fork for Mac is also available. …
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Thomas Steiner has released a tool named SVGcode. It’s a PWA to convert raster images to SVG vector graphics. SVGcode is a Progressive Web App that lets you convert raster images like JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, etc. to vector graphics in SVG format. It uses the File System Access API, the Async Clipboard API, …
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Wonderful little tool by Rik Schennink to redact photos straight in the browser. The redacted parts can’t be reversed, as the pixels get randomly shifted before they are blurred. I've added this "How does it work?" section to https://t.co/EoDQGxV4An to explain why _I think_ its blurring is secure. https://t.co/bb1Wvj3JsV pic.twitter.com/KVGigqJHly — Rik Schennink (@rikschennink) October …
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On the Polypane website you can find an interactive Specificity Calculator. Paste in any selector from CSS Selectors Level 4 — yes, that includes those special cases :is(), :where(), :not(), etc. — and out comes the Specificity. CSS Specificity Calculator →
Similar to how jq allows you to extract content from JSON files on the CLI, htmlq allows you extract content from HTML files. Like jq, but for HTML. Uses CSS selectors to extract bits of content from HTML files. You can pass in a local HTML file, but also pipe it to cURL requests. For …
Generate models and serializers from JSON, schema, and GraphQL for working with data quickly & safely in any programming language. Just paste in some JSON object, choose your output language, and voila! quicktype — Convert JSON into gorgeous, typesafe code in any language →