One Thing Well

sw stands for Suckless Web-framework. As the name suggests It aims to be a minimal and sane web framework.

A static site generator that turns directories containing Markdown files into a website, using standard tools like grep, sed and awk.

The official iPhone app of the Bedbug Registry, a free, public database of user-submitted bedbug reports from hotels and apartment buildings across North America. Search for bedbug reports by location when apartment hunting or planning your next trip, or submit your own report if (God forbid!) you come across them yourself.

I’m mostly posting this as an excuse to link to Maciej ‘Pinboard’ Cegłowski’s wonderful 2008 weblog post about the Modafinil-fuelled battle with San Francisco bed bugs which led him to create the Bedbug Registry.

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Ronn converts textfiles to standard roff-formatted UNIX manpages or HTML. ronn-format is based on markdown but includes additional rules and syntax geared toward authoring manuals.

Goblin is a recreation from scratch of the traditional Unix and Plan 9 command line tools but this time built using the Go programming language. The goal is elegance and simplicity more than compliance with older implementations.

Phraseology is an app for writers. Part text editor, part word processor, Phraseology is a simple environment focused on making it enjoyable and productive to write on the iPad. Phraseology also supports your writing with tools that help to improve word selection and better understand and structure your text.

Phraseology’s clever Arrange mode is ideal for ‘bash it out, then knock it into shape’ writers—it lets you reorder paragraphs or sentences with drag ’n’ drop—while its Inspector provides a wealth of statistics and information about your text.

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Via 52 Tiger.

igal2 is a quick and easy program for placing your images online with just one command-line. It generates a pretty good-looking set of W3-compliant static HTML slides even with its default settings.

A quick and simple way to create a gallery of images. The default output isn’t, in fact, ‘pretty good-looking’, but the templates are easy to tweak.

Tunnelblick is a free, open source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on Mac OS X. It provides easy control of OpenVPN client and/or server connections. It comes as a ready-to-use application with all necessary binaries and drivers (including OpenVPN and tun/tap drivers). No additional installation is necessary — just add your configuration and encryption information.

Messages Beta brings iMessage to Mac and lets you send unlimited messages to iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac right from your Mac.

A Mountain Lion app, available today.

PyCmd is a ‘smart’ command prompt extension for Windows’ cmd.exe; its purpose is to emulate a few power features of UNIX shells.

Including smart completion, searchable history and emacs-style keybindings.

A simple bar to display the root window name for lightweight window managers.

Perhaps the simplest of the many status bar applications available.