Good Tools

websites

• Photopea
  • Photoshop clone
• https://12ft.io/
  • remove paywall
    • work
      • Financial Times
    • don't work
      • The Atheletic
  • add https://12ft.io/ in front of the url
• reddit stat
  • https://subredditstats.com
• reddit archives
  • https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/
    • very good
    • can search comments
  • https://www.reveddit.com/
  • https://www.unddit.com/
  • https://github.com/pushshift
    • underlying service of all the above sites
    • api endpoint prefix https://api.pushshift.io
    • api doc
      • guide
      • parameters
    • e.g.
      • https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/comment/search?html_decode=true&author=dlccyes&subreddit=subredditdrama
• note service comparisons
  • https://www.noteapps.info/
• hacknews remade
  • https://hn.jeffjadulco.com
• lucidcart
  • https://lucid.app/lucidchart
  • make flow charts / diagrams
• voicerss
  • https://www.voicerss.org/api/
  • convert text to voice via api

browser extensions

• tab manager (firefox)
  • Tab Session Manager
    • save and restore tab session
    • many options available
    • can sync
  • Sideberry
    • tree style tabs in sidebar
    • many customizations
  • Tabby
    • search opened tabs
• navigation
  • Gesturify (firefox)
    • mouse gestures
    • customizable
  • Glitter Drag (firefox)
    • drag to search/open text/link/image
  • CrxMouse (chrome)
• privacy
  • adblocker
    • ublock origin
      • can filter js
    • ghostery
  • Facebook container (firefox)
    • always put Facebook in firefox's container s.t. cookies don't share
• password manager
  • bitwarden
    • all platforms
    • pareto improvement to LastPass
      • UI bonita
• CSS
  • Stylus
    • write your own CSS for websites
    • can sync
  • Dark Reader
    • one-click darkify websites
• reddit and hackernews posts for current page
  • newsit
  • voat for reddit

badge generation

Badgen

https://badgen.net/

Sheilds.io

https://shields.io/

Logos

doc

To use your own logo

Any custom logo can be passed in a URL parameter by base64 encoding it. e.g:

https://img.shields.io/badge/play-station-blue.svg?logo=data:image/svg%2bxml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEiIHdpZHRoPSI2MDAiIGhlaWdodD0iNjAwIj48cGF0aCBkPSJNMTI5IDExMWMtNTUgNC05MyA2Ni05MyA3OEwwIDM5OGMtMiA3MCAzNiA5MiA2OSA5MWgxYzc5IDAgODctNTcgMTMwLTEyOGgyMDFjNDMgNzEgNTAgMTI4IDEyOSAxMjhoMWMzMyAxIDcxLTIxIDY5LTkxbC0zNi0yMDljMC0xMi00MC03OC05OC03OGgtMTBjLTYzIDAtOTIgMzUtOTIgNDJIMjM2YzAtNy0yOS00Mi05Mi00MmgtMTV6IiBmaWxsPSIjZmZmIi8+PC9zdmc+

examples

Logos

Simple Icons

https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons

Main page

List of logos

• svg or pdf
• colorful or not

<img height="32" width="32" src="https://cdn.simpleicons.org/[ICON SLUG]/[COLOR]" />

small programs

navigation

• QTTabBar
  • extend windows explorer functionalities
    • search
    • tabs
    • etc.
  • many customizable shortcuts
    • double click to go back
    • alt+double click to open properties
    • etc.
• Listary
  • Mac's spotlight
  • can customize appearance
  • Win 11 can customize indexing location too
    • 

screen recorder

• oCam
• obs studio

batch image converter

• Xnconvert
  • https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/#downloads
  • support rockstar's image format

defender and cleaners

• ccleaner
• adwcleaner
  • strong malware cleaner
• Display Driver Uninstall
  • uninstall display driver

multimedia

• Potplayer
• FastStone Image Viewer
• Audacity
  • simple but powerful audio editor
• Adobe Media Encoder
  • free, no need to pirate
  • encode videos to other formats easily

others

• Ditto
  • clipboard management
  • can pin
  • can search
• Snipaste
  • partial printscreen and sketch
• Wiztree
  • storage usage of everything on your disks
  • fast image viewer
• Rainmeter
  • customize your desktop

terminal

Windows

• windows terminal
  • highly customizable appearance
  • support many shells
• mobaxterm
  • the all-in-one solution
  • ftp, x server and more
  • tree style folders in sidebar

dotfiles management

Mackup

Mackup

Setup

Install

brew install mackup

To see available commands

mackup -h

Set up the backup directory in ~/.mackup.cfg

[storage]
engine = file_system
path = /path/to/dir

Backup

mackup backup

It will symlink your dotfiles in your home folder to /path/to/dir/Mackup.

Run with --force to replace all, and --force-no to replace none. Otherwise it will ask Yes/No for each existing file.

mackup backup --force
mackup backup --force-no

Restore

mackup restore

Again, this will symlink your dotfiles in your home folder to /path/to/dir/Mackup.

Troubleshooting

Symlink already exists

If your some of your dotfiles are already a symlink but not pointing to your files in /path/to/dir/Mackup, then it will fail, as it does not use the -f flag. You'll have to resolve it yourself by removing or correcting those files.

A possible scenario would be renaming your home folder.

git GUI

• github desktop
  • simple and elegant
  • straightforward
• sourcetree
  • powerful

markdown editor

• Typora
  • use the versions before pricing
  • simple and elegant
• VsCode
  • robust
  • ugly and unchangeable preview
• Obsidian
  • customization king
  • many good plugins

Image Converter

ImageMagick

brew install imagemagick

xxx to eps

convert image.jpg eps3:image.eps

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5350246/convert-jpg-to-eps-format

good Rainmeters

• VisBubble
  • round visualizer
  • https://visualskins.com/skin/visbubble-round-visualizer
  • with customization settings
• MonSoon
  • modern style cpu, ram, disk usages, clock
• Aemstel
• Time Calculate
  • X% of the day has passed
• Simple Epoca
  • vertical/horizontal linear visulizer
  • no customization supports
  • alter .ini yourself
• Simple Lyrics Display
  • spotify lyrics overlay
  • download: https://www.deviantart.com/apu889/art/Simple-Lyrics-Display-678137217
  • prerequisite: https://github.com/marcopixel/monstercat-visualizer
  • unusable unless following https://www.reddit.com/r/Rainmeter/comments/ce4jpd/spotify_lyrics_skin/eu0i2eo
  • reddit post
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/Rainmeter/comments/68lsem/simple_lyrics_display_obtaining_lyrics_from/
    • https://www.deviantart.com/apu889/art/Simple-Lyrics-Display-678137217?comment=1%3A678137217%3A4941281336
• Simply Circles

good Obsidian plugins

• image toolkit
  • make obsidian useable
• obsidian git
• tasks
• Text Snippets
  • enter certain phrase + hotkey → insert long predefined text
• quiet outline
  • search
  • collapse

good Sublime plugins

• NeoVintageous
  • vim