4mo ago

sharevb/it-tools: Collection of handy online tools for developers, with great UX.

GitHub - sharevb/it-tools: My additions (and of others) to it-tools! (Collection of handy online tools for developers, with great UX. )

This is a fork of the original project that is way ahead now.

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It's a lot friendlier with a link :)
https://github.com/sharevb/it-tools
- Strange, I'm pretty sure I did fill in the url. Or does attaching a picture change the post type so the url is not taken into account?
  
  Yeah it's one or the other unfortunately
- It's a lot friendlier with friends. 🍻
I don't see a server, so shouldn't this be "a collection of offline tools"? Throw in a service worker to cache everything (maybe it has one?) and there's no reason to ever hit the server after first load.
- So basically a browser extension? Actually it would be preferable in the Firefox sidebar vs a standalone site...
  
  There are lots of options:
  extension, as you mentioned
  Tauri app - like election, but uses system web view instead of baking in a browser
  PWA - service workers to make it work offline in the browser
  Each is pretty easy, and the PWA means you can basically get the Tauri app feel for free.
- It's the kind of thing I host so that no matter what device I'm sitting in front of, I can easily pull it up. Hence a server is needed. I'm not talking about just my own laptop or phone, I mean any shared or borrowed device.
  I find it so useful I pull it up almost every workday.
IT tools is a really good looking app with a lot of tools, but I think it might also be the definition of choice paralysis lol
- It's not like you approach it with "maybe I'll convert json to xml today".
  It's for when you have a thing to do and know you can do it there.
  
  Yeah, for sure, it's just remembering all of the things it can do seems pretty tricky lol
Hmmm... Interesting! I didn't realize there was a fork, but then again, this is one of those tools I've had running for several months close to a year or so and never thought about it. The original dev, Corentin, has been working on many more new projects: https://bsky.app/profile/corentin.tech .
- Same for me, that's why I shared it. I don't know why he's not merging PR's because this fork tries to share everything back.
Looks great!
I just had a quick play around with it, HEIC converter is something I didn't know I needed (I have a large backup from my iPhone which has HEICs), and I like the .eml parser just to name a couple.
I'll be adding this to my server for sure. Thanks for sharing

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