Tagged “tools”
How I use Obsidian - macwright.com
macOS apps you recommend
Excellent videos/music downloader
for youtube/twitter/etc
Making Large Language Models work for you
fantastic written version of his talk of youtube.
I like his ethics point on respecting reader's time - don't publish things that take someone longer to read than they do to write. Also on the code one, though I'm looser on that since I don't understand what my own code does.
llm CLI tool is fantastic.
aider is GPT powered coding in your terminal
another ai code tool to try
Why every developer needs to use Obsidian
Hyperbole, but it is a pretty great editor.
How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create?
Rough and incomplete working notes, to help me think through how to use this site. Intended primarily for my own use. But I will also share this with friends, as grist for conversations about how to best design a website to support creative work.
Scribble Diffusion
another image input tool
Use what works
Unbundling Tools for Thought
Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?
Modal seems like a winner.
Build FFmpeg filters without the headache
ffmpeg parameter gui
Lex
Another AI writing tool to try
Hookpad
more awesome web apps
Rnote
More notetaking tools. This time with drawings!
Setting up Wordpress in 2022
Peace Equalizer Calibration Tool
A glowing rec from Beautiful Audio
Periodic Table of Semantics - DRAFT
Box Shadow Generator
Todo apps are meant for robots
So many good points. Tasks vs notes; not everything needs a checklist, some things are just notes. Thinking "I'll do that later" is a lot easier than "I will select a date/time in a calendar popup to schedule a reminder for this task". Todo apps are ineffective if having them is more work than the task you are trying to do!
A quote on HN about procrastination has also made be add Red Dwraf to booklist.
Foam - Roam for VSCode
Might try this out for some project organisation. Reluctant to use this for all notetaking due to editor lock-in - I can't use VSCode on this low-RAM laptop.
Absurdly, comically simple is the way to go
I love this, and have experienced it first hand too many times. But a single text file has worked well for me, and saved.
An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools | Hacker News
Some additional useful bits in comments (also a lot of 'just use x'). Actual list has some gems in it: repgrep, podman, mdcat etc
Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history and bookmarks
This looks very useful. Full-text search and some other convenient integrations
Free for developers
Massive list of tools and SaaSes, some free, some with free quotas listed.
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