Base is a beautiful SQLite GUI for macOS
Been using the excellent TablePlus for a while but this one seems nice too.
Been using the excellent TablePlus for a while but this one seems nice too.
Good old-school fun. I miss being able to theme OS X. How much fun is this? I hope Apple doesn’t bork whatever makes this work.
Because The Unarchiver now shows fucking ads.
Yes, I am complaining about a free thing. I have zero problem paying for the application and/or for the ads to go away. We drown in enough shit as it is. Does make me think why I need a separate unarchiver… perhaps for RAR files?
Here’s a demo site (demo:demo). I was able to launch it in under 30 seconds (M2 MacBook Air, 24GiB) against a ~200GiB music library.
UX and beets integration aside, it’s essentially what I tried to build a long while ago. A simple music player (based on Rust/Golang, SQLite, and simple Web APIs) whose UI made sense to normal and reasonable people and not ambitious product managers.
I use the excellent Karabiner for my keyboard but this appears to be a more ‘native’ solution. Here’s a copy of the repository.
And it’s a single file! I’ve cached it here. This is a lite version of one of my favorite apps, the excellent (and surprisingly cheap) MonoDraw for macOS.
Very cool. More CLI than UTM. Another is Lima.
You can use System Settings -> Battery -> Battery Health -> Info Icon to toggle this “ML” approach where macOS (and the developers who know more than you about how to care for your Mac) will handle this for you but I’ve never gotten it to work as expected despite docking my laptop repeatedly, and for half the day, over a year.
You can buy it on Gumroad or here’s a download link.
Here’s a Github Gist for a CLI option that uses diskutil
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I love me my cowsay. It’s a lovely amusement that greets me every time I open a terminal session. People typically use it with the fortune command but my cow moos a random developer excuse. I generate that using this bash function and this invocation: command -v cowsay >/dev/null 2>&1…
For day-to-day things, a 10-year old MacBook Air is perfectly adequate (except, maybe, if you’re trying to read an article on the Des Moines Register’s or KCCI’s websites without using a PiHole…)…
Think jq but for HTML/DOM. If you wanted to get all the post titles on this log, curl -s -o - https://log.nikhil.io/ | gunzip - | pup "header > h2 > a" text{} Lovely stuff.…
Saved me a ton of time with small project I’m working on right now. Looks like it’s written in C.…
I’ve been nearing capacity for a while and this is a Godsend.…
It’s very simple and clever. This is an example of what’s rendered from this giant Markdown file 💙…
No macOS love though 😔…
Nexe and pkg are two compilers that create self-contained executables out of your Node scripts. Deno introduced this in a recent release, which got me looking for Node-based alternatives.…
Here’s a short overview but I found it as easy as brew install tesseract # See output.txt tesseract -l eng input.png output…
By a single dev. At $42, an absolute steal for all the things you can do with it. Perpetual license, no bullshit subscription model. 😍…
Woo! Covers the biggest reason why I use jq (grep for fields) which, as the gron author notes, is more general-purpose and takes a little more effort to understand and use.…
And a delightful tool I use almost every week for its auto-completion and syntax highlighting,