A small set of privacy-first tools for makers, no logins, no bullshit. All run in the browser, no installation needed. Image converters, croppers, calculators (px to rem for example), QR code generator and more. Long live the handmade web.
Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.
Blog Archives
Tag: tools
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Super Mario Bros. Remastered
Over on Github some awesome person has released
“A Remake / Celebration of the original ‘Super Mario Bros.’ games. Features new levels, custom modes, new characters, alongside a full level editor / custom level system!”
It looks like a lot of fun and I’m planning to play with it this weekend.
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gurk, a Signal Messenger client for terminal
The only actively-developed Signal client for terminal that I can find. It works great on my little Cyberdeck project.
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Retrobatch, a new batch image processor from Flying Meat
Looks like a heck of a swiss-army-knife of a tool. It’s node-based, supports CoreML image classification and sorting, and yep… it supports AppleScript. FM’s suggestions for new use cases contain fun, weird, stuff like “Read an image from the clipboard, apply a drop shadow, and write it right back to the clipboard to paste into another app.”
Retrobatch is available as a 14 day free trial, and licenses start at $29.99. Props to Flying Meat for being one of those third-party Mac development houses that just keeps going.
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Crunch, an impressive new PNG compression tool for macOS
Crunch is a macOS tool for lossy PNG image file optimization. It combines selective bit depth, color type, and color palette reduction with zopfli DEFLATE compression algorithm encoding using embedded versions of the pngquant and zopflipng PNG optimization tools.
The example images are impressive. Obviously, you won’t want to use this on your archival or source images. I did a quick test on a few of sites at work, and was able to take some PNGs w/ transparent backgrounds down from 1.5mb to 130kb. That’s a greater than 10x reduction in size. Jimminy.
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Anil Dash is the new CEO of Fog Creek
And they’re introducing what looks like the Yahoo Pipes of our dreams, Gomix.
Source: I’m at Fog Creek. And we’re introducing Gomix! – Anil Dash
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flickgame
[Tiny, web-based, game engine for creating games contained to 16 drawings (each an individual color).][link]
Makes me think of WarioWare Inc.
[link]: http://www.flickgame.org/ “flickgame.org”
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Transformy
[“Transform your whole list, with just one example.”][link]
Paste in source data. Type in the format you want. Source data is massaged to fit new format. Very simple and works great.
[link]: https://www.transformy.io/#/ “Transformy – change your data with one example”
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Hex Preview
[Dead simple hex color scheme web app][link]. Just type in your hex codes, and it will update in real time. You can add any number of colors at once to see how they look together, too.
[link]: http://hexpreview.com/ “Hex Preview – the command-line-like color app”