One Thing Well

A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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 years.

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 support rclone… as well as standard transfer protocols.

Search the web or specific sites from the command line, open results in your preferred web browser.

Bob is a cross-platform and easy-to-use Neovim version manager, allowing for easy switching between versions right from the command line.

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 response. Hurl is very versatile: it can be used for fetching data, testing HTTP sessions and testing XML / JSON APIs.

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.

You should be able to install it on any system where Perl is available, even if you don’t have privileges for installing libraries.

Its file format is a simple text file, which you can edit in your favorite editor.

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 of the block.

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 accompanying API.

Datasette is aimed at data journalists, museum curators, archivists, local governments, scientists, researchers and anyone else who has data that they wish to share with the world. It is part of a wider ecosystem of 40 tools and 102 plugins dedicated to making working with structured data as productive as possible.

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 Scratch

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 consumption of a solar-powered website.

[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 small number of commands to get around, and most of them can be abbreviated to one or two chars, so with practice you can get around very quickly.

See also

• VF-1 updates and tips
• My VF-1 config and cheatsheet

rlwrap runs the specified command, intercepting user input in order to provide readline’s line editing, persistent history and completion.

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 CommonMark syntax (no tables or footnotes though),
• highlights code blocks
• shows links and images inline in supported terminals