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alsetmusiclast Tuesday at 2:23 PM6 repliesview on HN

There are lots of these, but this is the first that I've seen that focused on frontend dev a bit more. I've saved it to my list of tools for reference.

Here's another with a more local / backend / IT flavor: https://it-tools.tech

I have a couple more local apps with similar functions. Here's one that's cross platform[0]. This one appears to be Mac only[1].

Someone else mentioned not being able to remember these sites when needed. I recently started manually keeping track of web tools in html files inspired by a random repo[2] that fit well into a mode of category-abstraction that suited me. I don't recall how I landed there, but I liked the minimalism and adapted it to be a jumping-off point to a personal kbase that I made with another tool[3] some years ago. I have no design skills, so this (start-page) was just the right combo of minimalism and tasteful CSS for what I wanted. Works with markdown, which I also recently started using a lot more.

I ended up writing a lot more than I originally intended because I kept thinking of more links. They may be out of order because of non-linear editing and my having to rearrange them, so heads up. Also, it's early and I might just have made dumb mistakes.

0. https://devtoys.app 1. https://devutils.com 2. https://github.com/oinam/start 3. https://github.com/alanagoyal/docbase

Edit: Oh, looks like the it-tools link came from cruising the repo of start-page or vice-versa. Ha!


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elashrilast Tuesday at 7:58 PM

There is also network-tooling of the same idea and works locally [1]

[1]https://github.com/Lissy93/networking-toolbox

BLGardnerlast Tuesday at 2:35 PM

Thanks for the great feedback and I am very happy you decided to save it to your tool list!

BLGardnerlast Tuesday at 7:35 PM

Thanks for saving and sharing! If you use one tool I’ve reached my goal!

hk1337last Tuesday at 4:58 PM

it-tools is one I use often and have setup locally.

I like that prism.tools seems to be 100% static, so it doesn't require node to run like it-tools but I would imagine there's probably some tasks it couldn't do.

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alexander2002last Wednesday at 5:06 PM

I created https://github.com/oreoro/prettydevtoys

It is identical to the main it tools repo but with better styling and ux

Lord_Zerolast Tuesday at 6:04 PM

ASCII Art Text Generator seems broken

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