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Bad Hands Hiatus

As you’ve probably noticed, the traditional thrice-daily posting regimen at One Thing Well has slowed to a snail’s pace over the last few months.

This is thanks to an unholy trinity of medical complaints–carpal tunnel syndrome, osteoporosis & arthritis–that combine to make typing on a keyboard or prodding at a tablet screen a bit of a chore.

I’m having surgery to correct the carpal tunnel problem–my left wrist tomorrow, my right at some point soon-ish–so I should be fit to weblog before too long. But, for the next month or two, I’ll only be able to update the site from time to time, if at all.

Sorry about that. On a more positive note, as soon as I have a working pair of hands I plan to redesign, upgrade and generally zhuzh up One Thing Well, so if you have any suggestions for improving the site, do get in touch on Twitter or via email.

Cheers,

Jack

Macmoji

A text substitutions .plist for OS X that lets you quickly type emoji using Slack-style commands in any application.

E.g., if you type :fried_shrimp:, the text is replaced with 🍤.

riko

A python stream processing engine modeled after Yahoo! Pipes
riko is a pure Python library for analyzing and processing streams of structured data. riko has synchronous and asynchronous APIs, supports parallel execution, and is well suited for processing RSS feeds. riko also supplies a command-line interface for executing flows, i.e., stream processors aka workflows.
With riko, you can
Read csv/xml/json/html files
Create text and data based flows via modular pipes
Parse, extract, and process RSS/ATOM feeds
Create awesome mashups, APIs, and maps
Perform parallel processing via cpus/processors or threads

crontab.guru

An easy to use [web-based] editor for crontab schedules.

With an at-a-glance guide to cron’s syntax, and a plain English explanation of when and how often your cron job will run.

reminders-cli

A simple CLI for interacting with OS X reminders.

Kgif

Kgif lets you capture what’s going on in the active window on your Linux desktop, and render it as an animated GIF.

bug.n

bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for the Explorer shell of Microsoft Windows.
What it can do
Provide layouts for resizing and moving windows, utilizing all available screen estate and customizable to your specific needs and workflow
Provide views (i. e. virtual desktops) for showing only those windows, which you need to do your work.
Dynamically resize and move your windows, applying a specified layout, without you having to care about moving them all by mouse
Increase the available screen estate by hiding and therewith freeing up the space occupied by the Microsoft Windows Taskbar and the title bar for every single window and replacing all with a single slim status bar

emoj

Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.

Git Time Metrics

Git Time Metrics (GTM) is a tool to automatically track time spent reading and working on code that you store in a Git repository. By installing GTM and using supported plug-ins for your favorite editors, you can immediately realize better insight into how you are spending your time and on what files.

Plugins are available for Atom, Sublime Text 3 and Vim.

Via @VimLinks.

Inky

Inky is a editor for ink, [a] markup language for writing interactive narrative in games.

With syntax highlighting, as-you-type error detection and a playable preview pane, so you can test your interactive fiction while you write it.

This tiny script… can be used to create, delete, and navigate marks in Bash and Zsh. It is based on the command-line fuzzy-finder fzf…
Although the script is very short and simple, it is very convenient and can very quickly become an important part of your workflow.

pxl

pxl is a little hack to display images in the terminal.