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Retrobatch, a new batch image processor from Flying Meat

Post author By Phil Nelson
Post date 29 May 2018
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[Looks like a heck of a swiss-army-knife of a tool][link]. 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][link], and [licenses start at $29.99](https://flyingmeat.com/store/). Props to Flying Meat for being one of those third-party Mac development houses that just keeps going.

[link]: https://flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/ “Retrobatch”

Tags image processing, macos, software, tools, web development

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Crunch, an impressive new PNG compression tool for macOS

Post author By Phil Nelson
Post date 27 March 2018
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>[Crunch is a macOS tool](https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Crunch) 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](https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Crunch#examples) 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.

Tags image compression, tools, web development

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Anil Dash is the new CEO of Fog Creek

Post author By Phil Nelson
Post date 06 December 2016

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

Tags bots, software, tools

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flickgame

Post author By Phil Nelson
Post date 04 May 2015

[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”

Tags game engines, tools, warioware, web development

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Transformy

Post author By Phil Nelson
Post date 29 April 2015

[“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”

Tags data, one thing well, tools

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Hex Preview

Post author By Phil Nelson
Post date 03 April 2015

[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”

Tags tools, web apps, web development

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gulp.js – the streaming build system

Post author By Phil Nelson
Post date 21 August 2014
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[Some crazy webdev magic.][link] I barely understand this enough to know that it looks awesome. Highly recommend viewing [the introduction slideshow][intro].

[link]: http://gulpjs.com “gulp.js – the streaming build system”
[intro]: http://slides.com/contra/gulp “gulp slideslow”

Tags js, tools, web development

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Framer

[An application / framework platform for Mac that looks to let you got from Photoshop or Sketch to prototype in record time.][link]

[link]: http://framerjs.com/ “Framer – Innovative Prototyping”

Tags code, frameworks, javascript, prototyping, tools

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sql.js: A port of SQLite to JavaScript

Post author By Phil Nelson
Post date 10 April 2014
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[This is ridiculous and great][link]:

>sql.js is a port of SQLite to JavaScript, by compiling the SQLite C code with Emscripten. no C bindings or node-gyp compilation here.

Once again, via [Jesper][jesper].

[link]: https://github.com/kripken/sql.js “kripken/sql.js”
[jesper]: http://waffle.wootest.net “Jesper’s blog, Waffle”

Tags code, javascript, sqlite, tools, web development

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slick – the last carousel you’ll ever need

Post author By Phil Nelson
Post date 01 April 2014
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[A full-responsive, CSS3-enabled, touch-ready, arrow-key supporting, draggable carousel that you can instance with one line.][link]

Having built and used probably a dozen different image slider / content carousels this one looks like it covers all of the bases and with minimal markup bullshit. Color me impressed.

[link]: http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/ “slick – the last carousel you'll ever need”

Tags code, javascript, reusables, tools, ui, ux, web development

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obelisk.js

[Obelisk.js is a JavaScript Engine for building isometric pixel objects.][link]

… and it looks like a million bucks. This may have to be the basis for my life’s work: A modern remake of the SNES version of SimCity. (via [Jesper][jesp])

[link]: https://github.com/nosir/obelisk.js “nosir/obelisk.js on GitHub”
[jesp]: http://waffle.wootest.net “Waffle, Jesper’s blog”

Tags design, isometric, javascript, pixel art, tools, web development

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Layer Comps in Photoshop

[Neven Mrgan just blew my mind][link]:

>Layer comps is a panel—found in the Window menu—which helps you organize different versions of a designs or different views of it in the same file. If you are a responsible digital citizen at all, you probably have some sort of system for keeping around alternate elements and various “views” of your app. Layer Comps will make this easier and more robust.

Had no idea this even existed.

[link]: http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/134283303/layer-comps “Layer Comps in Photoshop – Neven Mrgan's tumbl”

Tags design, howto, photoshop, tools

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websocketd

>[websocketd is a small command line tool that will wrap an existing command line interface program, and allow it to be accessed via a WebSocket.][link]

Sounds great. (via [Jesper][jesp])

[link]: https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd “Github: joewalnes/websocketd”
[jesp]: http://waffle.wootest.net “Waffle”

Tags tools, web development, websockets

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Mock Response

A super simple, but super useful, little [service that returns various HTTP status codes based the URL called][link]. Helpful tool for testing how your app responds to every HTTP status.

[link]: http://mock.isssues.com/ “Mock Response”