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GitHub - nikitabobko/AeroSpace: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

Free, open-source, cross-platform. Share files without a central server. The file transfer is completely peer-to-peer.

LocalSend is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.

LocalSend is free to use. No ads, no tracking, no hidden costs.

The source code is publicly available. Everyone can contribute to the project.

End-to-end encryption ensures that only you and the recipient can access your files.

A simple user interface without registration. Other devices are discovered automatically.

Boop by OKatBest is a javascript scriptable macOS application that is handy for manipulating plain text. The core idea being -- use boop instead of pasting ( potentially ) sensitive data in random websites -- eg: prettify json, convert text to base64 etc.,

My boop repo is here: btbytes/BoopScripts

MacOS

Lipika IME works well on MacOS Ventura on Macbook Air M2 chip - March 2023. You will have to download the compiled LipikaIME.pkg file from it's github releases page.

Some screenshots as seen on MacOS Ventura (Mar 29, 2023).

Keyboard Ventura

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Keyboard Settings on MacOS Ventura

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Lipika settings

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Old notes:

For Mac, Let's investigate MacUIM as given by Shreevatsa. MACUIM no longer works.

Linux

Old notes: On Linux: Setting up Kannada Input on Ubuntu

List of programs and shell scripts that I find useful.

• 2014-11-26: Conkeror
• 2015-05-06: ccat -- colourised cat. there are other ways to do it, including using pygmentize
• 2016-07-22: joeyespo/grip: Preview GitHub Markdown files like Readme locally before committing them.
• 2018-02-19: java_launcher: Helper script to treat Java programs as scripts.
• 2019-12-05: imgproxy -- imgproxy does one thing — resizing remote images — and does it well. It works great when you need to resize multiple images on the fly to make them match your application design without preparing a ton of cached resized images or re-doing it every time the design changes. imgproxy is a Go application, ready to be installed and used in any Unix environment
• 2020-02-25: antonmedv/fx: Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer 🔥
• 2020-02-25: antonmedv/red: Terminal log analysis tools

Meta (lists made by other people)

• cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade: Tools of The Trade, from Hacker News.
• An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools - WezM.net by Wesley Moore

Chrome extensions

• PriceBlink --useful for comparison shopping. I've saved quite a bit of money using this extension.
• Personal Blocklist -- filter out content farms from your searches. -Adblock Plus -- A must have for all. -Send this link with Gmail -- very useful to share the web links via email. Works even Google Apps domains. -MeasureIt! -JSONView -- "an extension that helps you to parse and view JSON documents". Highly recommended if you do web development -Screen Capture -- screen capture, highlighting and annotation.

Safari extensions

• Ghostery -- block intrusive javascript.

Pandoc

pandoc is a fantastic program to convert text to various output formats.

Typcial usage: To convert a markdown formatted text file to html

$ pandoc somefile.txt -f markdown -t html --standalone -o somefile.html

See the detailed pandoc page.

Command line tools

abcde

Command line tool to rip CDs to .mp3.

Installation: $ sudo apt-get install abcde id3v2

Insert Disc #1 of a 3-cd audio book $ abcde -o mp3 -p -W 1.

bcat

bcat pipe to browser utility.

Typical usage: To see the git log.

$ git log -p --color | bcat

fd

sharkdp/fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

gist

gist pastes code, text to [gist.github.com] from command line.

$ gist one.txt

partimage

partimage is a Linux disk imaging software. It has a curses based interface to guide you through the options.

Typical usage: make a backup of an entire HDD(say SSD/Flash of a prototype) to your desktop.

Make Image:

$ partimage -z1 save /dev/sdg1 $HOME/backup/prototype-hdd-20100707.partimg.gz

Restore:

$ partimage restore /dev/sdg1 $HOME/backup/prototype-hdd-20100707.partimg.gz

qpdf

qpdf -- is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files.

http-prompt

• HTTP Prompt - An interactive command-line HTTP client

pip install http-prompt

fzf

junegunn/fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go

peco

• peco/peco: Simplistic interactive filtering tool

q

• q is a command line tool that allows direct execution of SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files).

entr

entr(1) -- Run arbitrary commands when files change

ripgrep

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern. See rga, like rg, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.

sd

sd is an intuitive find & replace CLI.

rargs

rargs xargs + awk with pattern matching support. ls *.bak | rargs -p '(.*)\.bak' mv {0} {1}

rak

lizmat/App-Rak: 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids

Code tools

• etsy/hound: Lightning fast code searching made easy

Database tools

• dbeaver -- crossplatform database manager for all popular sql dbs and some nosql dbs.

Web development tools

• HTTPie + prompt_toolkit = an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting

• TheWaWaR/simple-http-server: SimpleHTTPServer in Rust

• Yaak is a cross-platform desktop app for interacting with REST, GraphQL, and gRPC

Data Cleaning

• jq - command line json processor
• HTML-XML-utils -- makes scraping tasks that much easier.
• pup - Parsing HTML at the command line. written in go.
• xidel - HTML/XML data extraction tool which is written in Pascal; also by the same author - texstudio

Interesting ~/bins on github

• https://github.com/sartak/bindir
• https://github.com/dustin/bindir

Some more linked on this page: 15 Greatest Open Source Terminal Applications Of 2012

Interesting

• ronn - the opposite of roff.

Lorem ipsum

• Jeffsum | A little text placeholder generator of Jeff Goldblum awesome... obviously.

OCR

• Screenotate Take screenshots you can search.

ASCII Banner

Use Figlet and Toilet to generate ascii text banners in linux terminal.