philippschweig / My-work-tools

My work tools and helper

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Miscellaneous

• Debuggex (https://www.debuggex.com)
  • Visualize regular expression
• crontab guru (https://crontab.guru)
  • The quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions
• Chmod Calculator (https://chmodcommand.com)
  • Chmod calculator allows you to quickly generate permissions in numerical and symbolic formats.
• explainshell.com (https://explainshell.com)
  • write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument

On Windows & macOS

• Fork (https://git-fork.com)
  • Fork - a git client for Mac and Windows
• Sourcetree (https://www.sourcetreeapp.com)
  • A free Git client for Windows and Mac
• Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com)
  • Visual Studio Code is a streamlined code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running, and version control. It aims to provide just the tools a developer needs for a quick code-build-debug cycle and leaves more complex workflows to fuller featured IDEs, such as Visual Studio IDE.
• X - Certificate and Key management (https://hohnstaedt.de/xca / https://github.com/chris2511/xca)
  • This application is intended for creating and managing X.509 certificates, certificate requests, RSA, DSA and EC private keys, Smart-cards and CRLs.
• Proxyman (https://proxyman.io / https://github.com/ProxymanApp/Proxyman)
  • Modern and Delightful HTTP Debugging Proxy for macOS, iOS and Android
• Craft (https://www.craft.do)
  • Craft is a tool for creating beautiful documents and notes and sharing your thoughts. Everything you create in Craft can be shared with one tap. Craft supports inline markdown, backlinks, code snippets, images, videos, attaching PDF files, and rich link previews.

On macOS

• MindNode (https://www.mindnode.com)
  • Visual brainstorming and mind mapping

Improve usability

• Always how Menu Bar in fullscreen mode (https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/17/keep-menu-bar-visible-mac-full-screen)
• Show hidden files in Finder (https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/406762/keyboard-shortcut-to-show-hidden-files-on-macos-big-sur/406763#406763)
• Touch ID for sudo (https://www.ifun.de/mac-terminal-tipp-touch-id-fuer-sudo-befehle-einrichten-163052)
• accessmenubarapps (http://www.ortisoft.de/en/accessmenubarapps)
  • needed, if status symbols are much more than can be displayed
• AltTab (https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app / https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos)
  • AltTab brings the power of Windows alt-tab to macOS
• Dock icon spacer (https://www.projectwizards.net/en/blog/2021/07/macos-dock-finetuning)
  • macOS Hints: Dock Fine-Tuning
  • Default size: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'; killall Dock
  • Small size: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="small-spacer-tile";}'; killall Dock
• Scroll-Reverser (https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser / https://github.com/pilotmoon/Scroll-Reverser)
  • Reverses the direction of macOS scrolling, with independent settings for trackpads and mice
  • Alternatives:
    • https://github.com/Caldis/Mos
    • https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels
• BalanceLock (https://www.tunabellysoftware.com/balance_lock/)
  • Prevents audio balance from drifting left or right
• Spectacle (https://www.spectacleapp.com / https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle)
  • Spectacle allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse.
• Numi (https://numi.app / https://github.com/nikolaeu/numi)
  • Beautiful calculator app for Mac
• Alarm Clock 2 (https://abhishekbanthia.com/clocker / https://github.com/n0shake/Clocker)
  • Clocker is an macOS menubar utility designed to help you keep track of your friends in different time zones.
• Itsycal (https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal / https://github.com/sfsam/itsycal)
  • Itsycal is a tiny calendar for your Mac's menu bar.
• SoundSource (https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource)
  • Get truly powerful control over all the audio on your Mac!
  • Alternatives:
    • https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic
    • https://github.com/bitgapp/eqMac
• GIF Brewery (https://gfycat.com/gifbrewery)
  • Creating fine-crafted GIFs for Mac users worldwide
• Keka (https://www.keka.io)
  • the macOS file archiver
• OmniDiskSweeper (https://www.omnigroup.com/more)
  • Quickly find large, unwanted files and sweep them into the trash
• Angry IP Scanner (https://angryip.org / https://github.com/angryip/ipscan)
  • Angry IP Scanner - fast and friendly network scanner
• ApplePi-Baker v2 (https://www.tweaking4all.com/hardware/raspberry-pi/applepi-baker-v2)
  • ApplePi-Baker is a small macOS utility that allows you to backup or restore disks. At its core, it uses the same format as produced by “dd“, a raw byte-by-byte copy of the disk – typically with the “.IMG” file extension
• F2Utility (https://github.com/Jelmerro/F2Utility)
  • An easy and effective batch file rename tool
• KeyStore Explorer (https://keystore-explorer.org / https://github.com/kaikramer/keystore-explorer)
  • KeyStore Explorer is a free GUI replacement for the Java command-line utilities keytool and jarsigner.
• Paintbrush (https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io)
  • Paintbrush is the original simple paint program for macOS.
• boram (https://github.com/Kagami/boram)
  • Cross-platform graphical WebM converter
• Android File Transfer (https://www.android.com/filetransfer)
  • Browse and transfer files between your Mac computer and your Android device
• SuspiciousPackage (https://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage)
  • An Application for Inspecting macOS Installer Packages
• Platypus (https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus / https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus)
  • Create native Mac applications from command line scripts.

Useful macOS provided utilities

• ColorSync (https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/colorsync-utility/welcome/mac)
  • Allows to add PDF export filters for Preview App
  • https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/33702/compress-pdf-with-adjustable-ratio/33750#33750

Development

• Pusher (https://github.com/noodlewerk/NWPusher)
  • OS X and iOS application and framework to play with the Apple Push Notification service (APNs)
• DB Browser for SQLite (https://sqlitebrowser.org / https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser)
  • DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) is a high quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite.
• FastoNoSQL (https://fastonosql.com / https://github.com/fastogt/fastonosql)
  • FastoNoSQL is a crossplatform Redis, Memcached, SSDB, LevelDB, RocksDB, UnQLite, LMDB, ForestDB, Pika, Dynomite, KeyDB GUI management tool.
• libimobiledevice (https://www.libimobiledevice.org / https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice)
  • A cross-platform protocol library to communicate with iOS devices
• iSimulator (https://github.com/wigl/iSimulator)
  • iSimulator is a GUI utility to control the Simulator, and manage the app installed on the simulator.
• Frum (https://mac.install.guide/ruby/14.html / https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/frum)
  • A little bit fast and modern Ruby version manager written in Rust
  • 2022-08-08: Use frum install x.x.x --with-openssl-dir=`brew --prefix openssl@1.1` to install ruby, see TaKO8Ki/frum#105
• Flutter wrapper (https://github.com/passsy/flutter_wrapper)
  • The Flutter Wrapper will add the Flutter SDK as a git submodule to your project. It pins the version and the channel.
  • Similar to Gradle Wrapper
• SSHFS (https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs)
  • A network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers
  • SSHFS allows you to mount a remote filesystem using SFTP
• UTM (https://mac.getutm.app / https://github.com/utmapp/UTM)
  • UTM is a full featured system emulator and virtual machine host for iOS and macOS. It is based off of QEMU.
  • In short, it allows you to run Windows, Linux, and more on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
• jenv (https://github.com/jenv/jenv / https://www.jenv.be)
  • jEnv - Manage your Java environment
  • jEnv is a command line tool to help you forget how to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable
  • Alternatives:
    • https://github.com/shyiko/jabba
  • Install Java: https://mkyong.com/java/how-to-install-java-on-mac-osx/#homebrew-install-a-specified-java-adoptopenjdk-on-macos
• JSON Viewer (https://jsonviewer.app)
  • JSON Viewer is a native Mac app to visualize, validate and format JSON datasets in a clean and snappy interface.
• Madness - Instant Markdown Server (https://github.com/DannyBen/madness / https://madness.dannyb.co)
  • Madness was designed in order to provide easy browsing, viewing and searching for local, markdown based documentation directories.

Online helper

• A launchd.plist generator (http://launched.zerowidth.com)
• JSON to Markdown Table (https://kdelmonte.github.io/json-to-markdown-table / https://github.com/kdelmonte/json-to-markdown-table)
  • Web app that converts JSON to Markdown tables

On Windows

• timetray (https://github.com/otacke/timetray)
  • A tiny Java program that shows the current calendar week in a system tray
• Active Directory Explorer (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/adexplorer)
  • Active Directory Explorer (AD Explorer) is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor. You
• WinFsp / Windows File System Proxy (http://www.secfs.net/winfsp / https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp)
  • WinFsp is a set of software components for Windows computers that allows the creation of user mode file systems. In this sense it is similar to FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), which provides the same functionality on UNIX-like computers.