A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
MirrorDisplays a simple application that toggles between mirrored and extended desktop modes. It’s the easiest way to turn on, or turn off display mirroring. Also comes with a (separately installable) CLI tool which makes this pretty interesting The command line tool is good for giving shell-scripts the power to control display mirroring and opens up …
squoosh-cli
To compress and compare images with different codecs right in your browser there’s squoosh.app that you can use. Announced at the still ongoing Chrome Dev Summit 2020 is Squoosh v2 with new codecs support (AVIF!), an updated design, and the release of CLI version! Squoosh CLI is an experimental way to run all the codecs …
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dog is an open-source DNS client for the command-line. It has colourful output, supports the DoT and DoH protocols, and can emit JSON. With it supporting JSON (using the –json flag) you can easily pipe its output through the power tool jq dog, the command-line DNS client →
KeyCastr is an open-source keystroke visualizer. Handy to use while screencasting/livestreaming/teaching. Installation per Homewbrew Cask: brew cask install keycastr KeyCastr →
Handy tool by Michelle Barker: A little tool to generate compound grids. Enter the number of columns for each of your grids, and they’ll be magically merged into a compound grid. Use the output in your grid-template-columns property when using CSS Grid for layout. Compound Grid Generator →
A small utility to demystify CSS selectors, explaining them in plain English. Best part of it all: it updates the URL upon entering a selector so you get directly shareable links 🙂 Selectors Explained →
Nice new single-purpose site by Stefan Judis, which lists single-purpose web development tools – such as the aforementioned CSS Grid Generator and Smooth Shadow Generator for example – in one single place. As detailed in a Twitter thread, the site is built using Eleventy, deployed to Zeit, and screenshots of the sites are automatically taken …
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bandwhich sniffs a given network interface and records IP packet size, cross referencing it with the /proc filesystem on linux or lsof on macOS. It is responsive to the terminal window size, displaying less info if there is no room for it. It will also attempt to resolve ips to their host name in the …
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Nice tool to generate custom text effects such as underline, strikethrough, italic, small caps, circles, upside down, etc. The tool does not use custom fonts, but translates your entered text to other UTF-8 code points which have the effect built in — 🄻🄸🄺🄴 🅃🄷🄸🅂, 🄵🄾🅁 🄴🅇🄰🄼🄿🄻🄴 🚨 Before you go wild with it though, don’t …
Now this is darn handy: ✨ Want to see some magic? 👀 Find a thread💬 Mention @threader_app with the word “compile”🤖 Get a reply from our bot with a link to the thread compiled in an article format — Threader (@threader_app) July 24, 2019 The tweet below for example … Because it keeps coming up, …
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