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Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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I'm using CyberChef ( https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ ) quite a lot for different tasks. I love the simplicity of writing a program in mere minutes and distributing it with a single link.

This is one of my favourite tools. Especially nice is you can even run it offline with no web server.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

#32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't the GitHub dashboard (the page you see when you login) show you that? Not sure if it covers all your use cases but it's been improving lately.

When I go there for my work, for example, I see notifications _for every repo I've ever interacted with_. I would prefer it be a bit smarter, like focus in on most important repos / notifications. I want kind of like a priority inbox of important stuff, and then a secondary inbox of stuff to ignore...

try going to github.com/watching

there should be a list of all the repos you watch

unwatch any repo you don't want to be notified of

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

#33

I use a JSON formatting tool a lot ( https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ ). I do wonder sometimes about pasting sensitive data into sites like this, and what they might be doing with it. Strange in a way, that companies spend so much effort restricting how we handle sensitive data, and then you copy and paste it into any website with an input box and no one seems to care. Fingers crossed and all that. These sit…

>Also, RGB to HEX

do it progamatically [0]. build a command line tool so that you can just use `./file `

0: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3380726/converting-a-rgb...

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

#34

A better way to keep up with Github I don't want email notifications spamming Github. I want a smarter feed of things I should care about and need to keep up with to do my work. PRs I probably need to review, Issues related to what I work on, etc... I haven't found a great way to do this, maybe others have ideas?

If you talking about a professional setup, then add the slack-github app to subscribe to these repositories. You will get notifications in private slack dm.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

#36

I use a JSON formatting tool a lot ( https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ ). I do wonder sometimes about pasting sensitive data into sites like this, and what they might be doing with it. Strange in a way, that companies spend so much effort restricting how we handle sensitive data, and then you copy and paste it into any website with an input box and no one seems to care. Fingers crossed and all that. These sit…

I'm a big fan of `pbpaste | jq` for JSON formatting

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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post #25
post #12

Using: - rot13/rotN - hex to ascii conversion - multiple timers at the same time (one in 5 minutes, one in 7, one in 10, one in 15 for example) - translation, mostly for japanese/english. I use google translate and deepl - REPLs/playgrounds, when I want to test something in a programming language without installing it - specific video conversion, usually to post a .mp4 on Twitter. This could and should be a shell scr…

Out of curiosity, what do you use rot for so regularly?

I use it around once a month. It's often used here to hide the answer to a puzzle or something like that.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

#38
Not all of these are web based but they are “online”

Image tool by google - Squoosh (https://squoosh.app/) RSS reader - Feedly Classic (looking for alternative that is similar, can be paid but no subscription) General News without the garbage - Winno (iOS app) (looking for web-based alternative) Regex learn - (https://regexlearn.com/) Icons8 - (icons8.com) Raindrop - (raindrop.io)

Things that are missing or can be improved: RSS readers & web browsers (specifically on iOS) Desktop email app for windows (waiting for spark to release)

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

#39

I use mint.com to consolidate all my financial details. But it is so buggy. Every time I access it seems to generate all stats from scratch, which means that it has no idea about accounts I have closed, renamed, moved etc.

I think there are at least half a dozen Mint competitors whose primary selling point is "better UX than Mint".

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

#40
Some stuff I use often:

- Finding out what a linux command line tool's flag does without having to CTRL+F through multiple matches in the manfile (https://explainshell.com/)

- Test and visualize JS regex (https://regexr.com/)

- Render PlantUML class or sequence diagrams (https://www.planttext.com/)

- Unicode code converter (https://r12a.github.io/app-conversion/)

- Unicode codepoint viewer (https://r12a.github.io/uniview/)

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