2023-01-25 12:00
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A weblog about simple, useful software (on any platform).
2023-01-20 12:00
FrogFind: A DuckDuckGo-powered search engine designed for old browsers running on vintage computers Read More
2023-01-18 12:00
One Thing:
Put a single task or goal in your [macOS] menu bar.
Add a line of text to the menu bar, automate updates using a command line app, Shortcuts integration or the custom URL sch… Read More
2023-01-13 12:00
yt-dlp:
A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes Read More
2023-01-12 15:35
Cilicon:
Cilicon is a macOS App that leverages Apple’s Virtualization Framework to create, provision and run ephemeral virtual machines with minimal setup or maintenance effort Read More
2023-01-11 12:00
Heatwave:
Heatwave generates a heat map of your git commits, similar to how GitHub’s heat map looks. View all commits or a single user’s commits for the past year or previous… Read More
2023-01-10 12:00
nom: A simple RSS feed reader for the terminal Read More
2023-01-06 13:05
gum:
A tool for glamorous shell scripts. Gum provides highly configurable, ready-to-use utilities to help you write useful shell scripts… with just a few lines of code Read More
2022-12-30 12:00
Smol Pub:
Smol Pub is [a] tiny blogging service.
Web interface and CLI to manage your posts.
Accessible from Web, Gemini and Gopher.
Storage for your images.
Write custom CSS f… Read More
2022-12-29 12:00
Newsboat:
Newsboat is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.
Use it locally, or sync with various RSS services/apps Read More
2022-12-23 12:01
podget:
Podget is a simple podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron). It features support for downloading podcasts from RSS & ATOM XML feeds… Read More
2022-12-22 12:00
Companion apps for Apple Music: Control Music on macOS with modern recreations of the iTunes 10 MiniPlayer, the Mac OS X Tiger iTunes Dashboard widget, or the mostly-forgotten Music Player f… Read More
2022-12-21 12:00
Rclone:
Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage. It is a feature-rich alternative to cloud vendors’ web storage interfaces. Over 40 cloud storage products… Read More
2022-12-20 12:00
Happy Net Box:
Happy Net Box is an experimental internet social experience based on the arcane and near-forgotten retro internet protocol known as FINGER.
With an optional command line… Read More
2022-12-19 12:00
SketchyBar:
This bar project aims to create a highly flexible, customizable, fast and powerful [macOS] status bar replacement for people that like playing with shell scripts Read More
2022-12-18 12:30
s: Search the web or specific sites from the command line, open results in your preferred web browser Read More
2022-12-17 12:30
Bombadillo:
Bombadillo is a non-web browser, designed for a growing list of protocols operating outside of the web.
Bombadillo is operated from your terminal, allowing you to browse con… Read More
2022-12-16 12:30
Finicky:
Finicky is an OS X application that allows you to set up rules that decide which browser is opened for every link that would open the default browser Read More
2022-12-15 12:30
shot-scraper:
A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites Read More
2022-12-14 12:30
microstat:
microstat lets you publish Markdown posts to a statically-generated microblog via Micropub, with automatically-sent Webmentions and integration with the micro.blog service Read More
2022-12-13 12:30
pdd:
pdd (Python3 Date Diff) is a tiny command line utility to calculate date and time difference. It can also be used as a timer. If no program arguments are specified it shows the curre… Read More
2022-12-12 14:41
wtf:
WTF.. is the personal information dashboard for your terminal, providing at-a-glance access to your very important but infrequently-needed stats and data.
Capable of displaying all… Read More
2022-12-11 12:31
bob:
Bob is a cross-platform and easy-to-use Neovim version manager, allowing for easy switching between versions right from the command line Read More
2022-12-10 12:30
offpunk:
A command-line and offline-first… browser/feed reader for Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and Web
The goal of Offpunk is to be able to synchronise your content once (a day, a… Read More
2022-12-09 12:30
mcfly:
McFly replaces your default ctrl-r shell history search with an intelligent search engine that takes into account your working directory and the context of recently executed comman… Read More
2022-12-08 12:30
Hurl:
Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format.
It can chain requests, capture values and evaluate queries on headers and body respon… Read More
2022-12-07 12:30
When:
When is an extremely simple personal calendar program, aimed at the Unix geek who wants something minimalistic. It can keep track of things you need to do on particular dates… Read More
2022-12-06 12:30
mason.nvim:
mason.nvim is a Neovim plugin that allows you to easily manage external editor tooling such as LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters through a single interface… Read More
2022-12-05 12:30
z.lua:
z.lua is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It tracks your most used directories, based on ’frecency’.
After a short learning phase, z will take you to the… Read More
2022-12-04 12:30
twitter-archive-parser: A script that takes an archive downloaded form Twitter and…
Converts the tweets to Markdown and also HTML, with embedded images, videos and links.
Replac… Read More
2022-12-03 12:30
Lagrange: Lagrange is a GUI client for browsing Geminispace. It offers modern conveniences familiar from web browsers, such as smooth scrolling, inline image viewing, multiple tabs, visual t… Read More
2022-12-02 17:58
cbfmt:
A tool to format codeblocks inside Markdown, Org, and reStructuredText documents.
It iterates over all codeblocks, and formats them with the tool(s) specified for the language… Read More
2022-12-01 13:38
Datasette:
Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take
data of any shape, analyze and explore it, and publish it as an interactive
website and accompan… Read More
2022-11-30 22:35
Pinafore:
Pinafore is a web client for Mastodon, designed for speed and simplicity Read More
2020-01-15 16:07
Bunch:
Bunch is a little macOS utility that sits in your Dock (or your Menu Bar). It doesn’t have any windows. When you right/ctrl-click the Dock icon (or click the menu item), it g… Read More
2019-12-23 10:49
Rectangle:
Rectangle is a window management app [for macOS] based on Spectacle, written in Swift Read More
2019-12-10 16:25
diff-so-fancy:
diff-so-fancy strives to make your diffs human readable instead of machine readable. This helps improve code quality and helps you spot defects faster.
Via Vim From Scrat… Read More
2019-11-29 10:13
Who Can Use:
…a tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people with visual impairments Read More
2019-11-20 13:40
Lid:
Lid is an image dithering program that is written in Python.
A lo-fi ditherer with six modes, inspired by Low-tech Magazine’s use of dithered images to reduce the energy cons… Read More
2019-11-15 13:53
ToothFairy:
Connect AirPods (or other Bluetooth headphones) to your Mac with a single click or keypress.
App Store Read More
2019-11-11 20:41
dntw:
dntw is a small shell script that allows you to have a dedicated Neovim instance per tmux window. It accomplishes this by acting as simple wrapper around the excellent tool neovim-r… Read More
2019-11-07 12:50
RSS.app:
Generate RSS feeds from almost any webpage Read More
2019-11-04 11:08
Fraidycat:
Follow blogs, wikis, YouTube channels, as well as accounts on Twitter, Instagram, etc. from a single page.
Fraidycat is a browser extension for Firefox or Chrome - or a Da… Read More
2019-11-01 15:58
Paper Phone:
Paper Phone helps you have a little break away from your digital world by printing a personal booklet of the key information you’ll need that day.
An app lets you… Read More
2019-10-29 13:24
Railboard:
Railboard is [a] train times iPhone app. It has departure and arrival board information, as well as a multi-part journey planner. All wrapped up in a simple and easy-to-us… Read More
2019-10-23 09:18
igloo:
Igloo simplifies Windows administration by offering pre-made aliases for lengthy PowerShell commands.
In addition to Windows aliases, Igloo offers a variety of admin tools to… Read More
2019-10-22 08:38
VF-1:
[A] command line gopher client.
From Introducing VF-1:
VF-1 is built around an interactive command prompt, and has a very “REPL” feeling.
You only need a smal… Read More
2019-10-17 09:28
lazydocker:
A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose…
Memorising docker commands is hard. Memorising aliases is slightly less hard. Keeping track of your contai… Read More
2019-10-15 10:12
rlwrap:
rlwrap runs the specified command, intercepting user input in order to provide readline’s line editing, persistent history and completion Read More
2019-10-08 10:50
Go64:
Quickly scan your [macOS] disk for applications, see which ones are 32-bit, and find upgrade information with the click of a button Read More
2019-10-04 11:24
direvent:
GNU Direvent monitors events in the file system directories. For each event that occurs in a set of pre-configured directories, the program calls an external program associated… Read More
2019-10-01 09:08
Kakoune:
Kakoune is a code editor that implements Vi’s “keystrokes as a text editing language” model. As it’s also a modal editor, it is somewhat similar to the Vi… Read More
2019-09-30 08:23
mdcat:
cat for Markdown
mdcat works best with iTerm2 or a compatible terminal emulator, and a good terminal font with italic characters. Then it
nicely renders all basic CommonM… Read More
2019-09-25 11:26
Shiori:
Shiori is a simple bookmarks manager written in Go language. Intended as a simple clone of Pocket. You can use it as command line application or as web application. This applicati… Read More
2019-09-24 06:37
tilde.club:
tilde.club is not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer that people respectfully use together in their shared quest to build awesome web pages.
A sh… Read More
2016-07-27 10:19
As you’ve probably noticed, the traditional thrice-daily posting regimen at One Thing Well has slowed to a snail’s pace over the last few months.
This is thanks to an unholy tri… Read More
2016-07-25 12:00
Macmoji: A text substitutions .plist for OS X that lets you quickly type emoji using Slack-style commands in any application.
E.g., if you type :fried_shrimp:, the text is replaced with … Read More
2016-07-21 12:00
riko:
A python stream processing engine modeled after Yahoo! Pipes
riko is a pure Python library for analyzing and processing streams of structured data. riko has synchronous and asy… Read More
2016-07-20 16:00
crontab.guru:
An easy to use [web-based] editor for crontab schedules.
With an at-a-glance guide to cron’s syntax, and a plain English explanation of when and how often your cron… Read More
2016-07-20 14:09
reminders-cli:
A simple CLI for interacting with OS X reminders Read More
2016-07-15 12:00
Kgif: Kgif lets you capture what’s going on in the active window on your Linux desktop, and render it as an animated GIF Read More
2016-07-14 16:00
bug.n:
bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for the Explorer shell of Microsoft Windows.
What it can do
Provide layouts for resizing and moving windows, utilizing all availab… Read More
2016-07-14 14:00
emoj:
Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line Read More
2016-07-13 16:00
Git Time Metrics:
Git Time Metrics (GTM) is a tool to automatically track time spent reading and working on code that you store in a Git repository. By installing GTM and using supported… Read More
2016-07-13 14:00
Inky:
Inky is a editor for ink, [a] markup language for writing interactive narrative in games.
With syntax highlighting, as-you-type error detection and a playable preview pane, so you… Read More
2016-07-13 12:00
Go Terminal: A terminal for Linux, with some unusual features including saving favourite commands for later use and ‘interactive interfaces’ which let you create simple GUIs to i… Read More
2016-07-11 13:57
pinboard-notes-backup: A command line tool that lets you back up your Pinboard notes Read More
2016-06-24 16:00
fzf-marks:
This tiny script… can be used to create, delete, and navigate marks in Bash and Zsh. It is based on the command-line fuzzy-finder fzf…
Although the script… Read More
2016-06-24 14:00
pxl:
pxl is a little hack to display images in the terminal.
See also
catimg Read More
2016-06-24 12:00
stylelint:
[A] CSS linter that helps you enforce consistent conventions and avoid errors in your stylesheets.
Use it at the command line, or via plugins for build tools and text editor… Read More
2016-06-23 16:00
Near Lock:
Use your iPhone to lock and unlock your Mac automatically. When you walk away from your Mac, it will be automatically locked. Once you approach your workplace, Near Lock will u… Read More
2016-06-23 14:00
Pick:
A colour picker for Ubuntu, elementary, and other Linux OSes.
Pick lets you pick colours from anywhere on your screen. Choose the colour you want and Pick remembers it, names i… Read More
2016-06-23 12:00
goed:
Goed is a Terminal based code/text editor, somewhat inspired by Acme.
With an integrated terminal, Emacs/readline-style keyboard shortcuts and a dmenu-ish command bar Read More
2016-06-22 16:00
video_transcoding:
Tools to transcode, inspect and convert videos.
For Linux, OS X & Windows Read More
2016-06-22 14:00
Pomodoro One:
Pomodoro One is a simple application for increasing personal productivity using Pomodoro technique.
For iOS and OS X.
App Store | Mac App Store Read More
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