Changelog

Uses tf-idf and cosine similarities.

Alex Ward: Ety uses research data that was scraped from Wiktionary so you can discover and visualise the history of words. Just pip install ety and you have easy access to word histories from your command line.

MagiCLI was built to expand the use of npm modules. When all modules can be executed via CLI, npm becomes a source for anyone who wants to find a solution ti be run from a terminal and also for those who would like to call an existing solution written in Node.js from a program written in another language. For even more context, check out the intro post on Hacker Noon.

I use the history command all the time, but I've never really dug in to it to see what all is possible. If you're in a similar spot, this article by Steve Morris is a good primer. 👌

Provide this tool the Google API url for a web font and it will download it for offline use and self-hosting. Why might you want to do that? It's not clear yet if Google Fonts are EU GDPR compliant (see this issue). This may be a good reason to download the Google Fonts you use on your server.

Hackable and configurable to the core, signale can be used for logging purposes, status reporting, as well as for handling the output rendering process of other node modules and applications.

A small utility to convert Unix lsof output to a graph showing FIFO and UNIX interprocess communication. This is written in Lua, but there are also Python and Perl ports because according to the author, "It seems that Lua was an unfortunate choice, since people keep sending me links to ports in other languages." Ouch. What's with all the Lua hate?

Project-specific REPLs for Node.js I'm a bit surprised this functionality isn't in the box, nonetheless: local-repl saves you from typing out imports every time you open a new Node.js REPL. You specify the modules and objects that you want to automatically import in either package.json or .replrc.js. It also lets you use await in the REPL without wrapping your code in async functions. That sounds quite nice.

Install this and leave your co-workers asking, "where does s/he get those wonderful toys?"

Transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute 'path' to it. It eases the exploration of APIs that return large blobs of JSON but have terrible documentation. Also works in reverse, so you can turn your filtered data back in to JSON.

Consola boasts ease of use, fancy logging (seen below) with CI fallbacks, globally mockable stdout/error wrappers, and more.

Olivier Lacan on why we should all stop using cd and start using j (a.k.a. autojump). I've been wasting soooo many keystrokes over the years! 😱

Responsive images are essential to any image-heavy website with an eye on performance. Due to the large variety of viewport sizes and device pixel ratios, they are also very time-intensive to test. Luckily, the heroes over at Filament Group have built a tool to help make the testing process easier. A command line tool to measure the efficiency of your responsive image markup across viewport sizes and device pixel ratios. I assume the project name is a nod to weirdo musician and tech experimenter Imogen Heap.

mdncomp shows MDN browser compatibility data and documentation in an instance right on the command line to see if a feature is supported or not in target browsers. It can list an excerpt from MDN documentation, provide a link, and optionally go directly to that page, if needed. Bonus — try mdncomp --random --doc . to explore APIs and features you've never heard about.

Manuel Vila: We are using more and more command-line tools, and while many of them are really good, I think they could be even better if they were based on more modern foundations. Because our tools are based on ancient paradigms (*nix, Bash, etc.), it's difficult for them to be both customizable and easy to use. After working for a year trying to solve this problem, he came up with "resources", which he says: brings an object-oriented interface to the command-line tools, making them a lot more flexible, composable, and user-friendly. The curmudgeon in me immediately thought, "old dog ... new tricks", but Manuel has a reply ready: I am well aware that I am not going to change 50 years of old practices by myself. It has to be a collective effort. So I'm trying to communicate as much as I can to find the few people crazy enough to join the adventure. Are you "crazy enough" to go on the adventure with him? Click through to find out more.

Register an alias like goto -r dev /home/jerod/dev. From then on out, you can just goto dev. Lazarus says: It comes with a nice auto-completion script so that whenever you press the tab key after the goto command, bash or zsh prompts with suggestions for the available aliases.

This application provides a number of tools related to static site generation, all running in Docker containers from a single binary file. Rather than go through the hassle of installing Ruby, Rake, Bundler, Jekyll, Python, Proselint, Gulp, etc. you only need the one single binary file and to have Docker installed.

You know I’m a big fan of learning by example, so it’s probably no surprise that this book series caught my attention. The linked text processing book looks particularly useful. I scanned its chapter on Ruby and learned something despite having used the language for 10+ years. Check it out, I bet you’ll learn something too.

Support toggles, multiselect, autocomplete, and more. Also uses async/await ftw.

A nice comparison chart built by ack's author. See also: The best project for someone might not be your project, and that's OK.

One more step toward never having to leave the terminal. 👌