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pathod, a pathological HTTP/S daemon useful for testing and torturing HTTP clients. At its core is a tiny, terse language for crafting HTTP responses. It also has a built-in web interface that lets you play with the response spec language, inspect logs, and access pathod’s full help document.
A simple lyrics viewer for C* Music Player, shell-fm and pianobar.
shell-fm is a lightweight, console-based player for Last.FM radio streams. It’s pretty small (the binary is currently about 70K, or about 60K when stripped) and it has most features the official player has, if not even a few more.
Onion Browser is a minimal web browser that encrypts and tunnels web traffic through the Tor onion router network and provides other tools to help browse the internet while maintaining privacy.
Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.
CouchPotato is an automatic NZB and torrent downloader. You can keep a “want to watch”-list and it will search for NZBs/torrents of these items every X hours. Once a correct release is found, matching the correct quality, it will send it to SABnzbd or download the .nzb or .torrent to a specified directory.
For Linux, OS X and Windows. It works, unofficially, on FreeBSD too: just clone the git repo and pop this init script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/.
A small note taking program for the terminal.
Broomstick is the easiest way to hide menubar icons that you don’t like. While most apps that create a menubar icon allow you to hide it, some apps don’t provide this option. Broomstick lets you take back control of your menubar!
Works as expected though, for obvious reasons, it has to “know” about the app. There is a way to submit apps so that they can be added to the hiding functionality in a future update. I do like the spirit of this though.
Also, app developer is 14 years old. Nice to see such smart your people these days.
(h/t John Anstett)
A web-based Markdown editor with live preview, plus Dropbox and Github integration.
vtclock, a text-mode full-screen digital clock.
Glyr is a music metadata search tool, capable of finding and downloading or displaying cover art, song lyrics, reviews, &c..
The command line interface is easy to use, e.g.
glyrc cover --artist Prince --album "The Black Album"
![The Tuesday before last I linked to the excellent pkglookup website, which lets you search for software in lots of different places1, and mentioned how much I’d like a command line version.
Today, developer Jerome Poichet got in touch to say:
Saw [pkglookup] the other day and noticed you would prefer a command line version, turns out it’s using a nice JSON REST request for the search, not too hard to create a simple command line version for it.
The result, also called pkglookup, is lightning fast and outputs search results in a nicely-formatted table, as shown above.
Brilliant! Thanks Jerome.
Including—deep breath—PyPI, CPAN, RubyGems, NPM, Maven Central, Clojars, GitHub, Bitbucket, Ubuntu, Arch User Repository, FreeBSD ports, Fedora and Homebrew. ↩](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m31hdh9OFu1qbsh2yo1_1280.png "The Tuesday before last I linked to the excellent pkglookup website, which lets you search for software in lots of different places1, and mentioned how much I’d like a command line version.
Today, developer Jerome Poichet got in touch to say:
Saw [pkglookup] the other day and noticed you would prefer a command line version, turns out it’s using a nice JSON REST request for the search, not too hard to create a simple command line version for it.
The result, also called pkglookup, is lightning fast and outputs search results in a nicely-formatted table, as shown above.
Brilliant! Thanks Jerome.
Including—deep breath—PyPI, CPAN, RubyGems, NPM, Maven Central, Clojars, GitHub, Bitbucket, Ubuntu, Arch User Repository, FreeBSD ports, Fedora and Homebrew. ↩")
The Tuesday before last I linked to the excellent pkglookup website, which lets you search for software in lots of different places1, and mentioned how much I’d like a command line version.
Today, developer Jerome Poichet got in touch to say:
Saw [pkglookup] the other day and noticed you would prefer a command line version, turns out it’s using a nice JSON REST request for the search, not too hard to create a simple command line version for it.
The result, also called pkglookup, is lightning fast and outputs search results in a nicely-formatted table, as shown above.
Brilliant! Thanks Jerome.
Including—deep breath—PyPI, CPAN, RubyGems, NPM, Maven Central, Clojars, GitHub, Bitbucket, Ubuntu, Arch User Repository, FreeBSD ports, Fedora and Homebrew. ↩
