Tools
I love software and non software tools that help me in some way. Most tools I use & like are mentioned appropriately in other parts of the wiki.
Other
is.gd - URL shortener with options like make the new URL pronouncable or create QR code.
Gravatar - Attach an image to an email and websites supporting Gravatar will simply pick up the image you specified.
Calendly - Schedule meetings.
Styleguide - Tool to make creating and maintaining style guides easy.
UFree - Sort out what day to meet.
Updwn - See what everybody thinks.
Leetchi - Online money pot for group gifting & personal fundraising.
Paddle - Checkout, subscriptions, licenses, promotions and analytics that work well together.
Git.io - URL shortener by GitHub.
Sourcegraph - Code search and intelligence, self-hosted and scalable.
Observable - Discover insights faster and communicate more effectively with interactive notebooks for data analysis, visualization, and exploration.
Carbon - Create and share beautiful images of your source code.
livegrep - Tool, partially inspired by Google Code Search, for interactive regex search of ~gigabyte-scale source repositories.
webhook - Lightweight incoming webhook server to run shell commands.
Canny - Track feedback to build better products.
Metabase - Simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company. (Binary deployment)
EditorConfig - Helps maintain consistent coding styles for multiple developers working on the same project across various editors and IDEs.
Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform.
Bloaty - Size profiler for binaries.
mdck - Reports broken links found within md files.
Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
Coverr - Beautiful, free videos for your homepage.
Loom - New kind of work communication tool that helps you get your message across through instantly shareable videos.
Habitat - Modern applications with built-in automation.
Toodles - Project management directly from the TODO's in your codebase.
Speedscope - Fast, interactive web-based viewer for performance profiles.
Dependabot - Creates pull requests to keep your dependencies secure and up-to-date.
imgproxy - Fast and secure standalone server for resizing and converting remote images.
Loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.
HCL - HashiCorp configuration language.
Buttondown - Easiest way to run your newsletter in markdown.
How many people are around - Count the number of people around you 👨👨👦 by monitoring wifi signals 📡.
Confluent - Streaming platform built by the original creators of Apache Kafka.
JournalBook - Private, offline-first personal journal.
AfterClass - New kind of document for futuristic teams.
WriteFreely - Simple, federated blogging platform. Written in Go.
Snap.as - Permanent home for your photos.
Jsonnet - Data templating language.
fastmod - Fast partial replacement for the codemod tool.
showthedocs - Documentation browser that finds the relevant docs for your code.
hack.chat - Minimal, distraction-free chat application.
Seafile - Enterprise file hosting platform with high reliability and performance.
Outline - Read & annotate without distractions.
HelloSign - Most Powerful Platform for Business Agreements.
Catch - Taxes, retirement, health insurance and more — built to work together like they always should have.
Notes
Tips for success in building libraries/tools:
Scratch your own itch.
Stand on the shoulders of giants.
Solve for the 80 % use case.
Make it easy to adopt/delete.
Links
Hacker Tools - Make the most of the tools that hackers have been using for decades.
Awesome Uses Page - List of /uses pages that detail apps and gear used by professional web developers.
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