I'm Nick, a software engineer with 20 years of experience. I help developers work smarter and faster by exploring the ultimate workspace setups, mastering AI assistants, and customizing the best coding tools.
I really enjoy watching these videos. Nick has a lovely presenting style that is weirdly gentle and soothing. The Ollama related videos are top notch.
A place for stupid-delightful tools made with love. Free, fun & open source. Made for an audience of one.
Render screenshots in one simple API call, instead of managing browser clusters, and handling all the corner cases.
It's the service I'm now using for this site.
visioncortex VTracer is an open source software to convert raster images (like jpg & png) into vector graphics (svg). It can vectorize graphics and photographs and trace the curves to output compact vector files.
Whatever the motivation for you to consider this—though after all, there are countries attacking, invading, and occupying other countries (e.g., Russia, Israel) and countries committing genocides (e.g., Israel)—, here’s one streamlined approach to geographic IP blocking via .htaccess
IPdeny offers country GEO IP address block downloads free of charge. Our country based IP zone files can be easily used in your applications and web sites to minimize on-line fraud, SPAM, floods and sometimes brute force attacks. IPdeny country IP block files can be used to set-up firewall or packet filter rules to disable specific service access and ports based on a specific country.
Harper is a free English grammar checker designed to be just right. You can think of it as an open-source alternative to Grammarly. I created it after years of dealing with the shortcomings of the competition.
pronounced "screen copy"
This application mirrors Android devices (video and audio) connected via USB or TCP/IP and allows control using the computer's keyboard and mouse. It does not require root access or an app installed on the device. It works on Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Had a play with this today and it worked really nicely.
The best way to remove "very" from your vocabulary
Gatus is a developer-oriented health dashboard that gives you the ability to monitor your services using HTTP, ICMP, TCP, and even DNS queries as well as evaluate the result of said queries by using a list of conditions on values like the status code, the response time, the certificate expiration, the body and many others.
The Web Platform Status web site was initially created by Google, and the project is now open source. The purpose of the dashboard is to allow web developers to query and track features shipped in major browsers.
Seems like a good alternative to PlaceKittens, since it seems to be gone 😿
wlrctl is a command line utility for miscellaneous wlroots Wayland extensions.
This tool converts SVG code into a Data URI, an encoded URL format that can be used as a background-image source.
Tiny Awards exist to celebrate the personal internet, what we described last year as ‘the other web, the one that is small and handmade and isn’t trying to sell you anything or monetise anything but which instead is about people using the digital tools we all have access to to make the sorts of small, personal experiences that you tend not to see ‘in feed’’.
Each year we explore the tools and technologies developers are currently using and the ones they want to use.
The robots.txts API lets you to generate robots.txts using the agent list. The agent list is updated continuously, so regenerating your robots.txt periodically will keep it up to date.
