daily coding Downloading a youtube playlist I recently attened a conference that was being presented off youtube but was in off-hours. The video content was available as a youtube playlist that I wanted to archive for offline viewing. After
daily coding Creating terminal screecast (with audio) Today, I discovered dhobsd/castty: A CLI tool to record audio-enabled screencasts of your terminal, for the web. [https://github.com/dhobsd/castty] Installation Installation was pretty easy on my mac: # install libsoundio
Spider Pro Improve Productivity. Extract YouTube Transcripts using Spider Pro I've been working on trying to get a blog post related to Spider Pro, which is as they say is *one of the easiest ways to scrape the internet, simply start clicking and collect the data you need*.
Ghost Upgrading Ghost and creating a native desktop application on OSX I recently upgraded my installation to the latest version. And I definitely want to move working on my laptop and I use the Ghost desktop application to post content.But unfortunately, the application
Tools SVG Based Illustrations from UnDraw Felt this is kinda cool ... given my rekindled love for SVGs! Credit: https://undraw.co/illustrations
hat-tip Create a bootable Win 8.1 USB from Mac OSX Create a bootable USB using UNetbootin [https://unetbootin.github.io/] First format the USB to FAT using the Disks utility Next, just download and install by following the instructions.
Tools s4cmd on Ubuntu I had trouble installing on Ubuntu. This worked for me as mentioned here [https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd/issues/108] sudo pip install s4cmd --ignore-installed six chmod +x /usr/local/bin/s4cmd On
Tools ripgrep - Command line based text manipulation I love the command line and love command line tools! They are just so minimalistic and efficient! Just discovered ripgrep that seems to be a great alternative to ack and ag!! ripgrep is
Scraping Puppeteer - API to control headless Chrome I've used various options available for scraping in a headless mode including PhantomJS, Nightmare, ScraperJS, etc. Unfortunately, most of these options required xvfb which makes things slower, less reliable and utilizes
Tools Cleanup over sized files on Mac and Ubuntu My Macbook SSD is running out of space and I am trying to figure out which directories are the biggest in my attempt to clean them up. The best utility I could find
Tools Clearly Extension on Google Chrome I'm addicted to the Clearly extension that was previously released by Evernote and is no longer available!! Here is the way to install the last one available: * Download extension from Clearly
Tools SQL Client for the Terminal I frequently need to peek into my database table using an SQL client and have been using Adminer - A single file database management tool to do it. While Adminer works great, ability
Tools Downloading Videos from Youtube using Terminal I wrote earlier about downloading videos from Youtube using Yoda. Trying to download using you-get and it seems to be working better! First, couple of nuances .. you-get needs Python 3. On my OSX,
Tools Read articles on a terminal The current UI trends and viewers including the browser seem to be very bloated for my personal preferences. Looking for a solution, I seem to have settled for now on reading using the
Tools Creating .gitignore files the easy way automatically! Its high time that I found an easier way to make .gitignore files for my git repos. My Github feed came to the rescue today and introduced me to gitignore.io. It works
SQLite Portable SQLite Database Browser for exploring sqlite3 databases I currently use a lot of SQLite databases for quick development. I still can't get over my age old habit of manually checking the database updates arising out of queries fired
Tools Desktop chat client for Google Hangouts I've been using Google Hangouts quite a bit of late. Using the browser and navigating to hangout seems to always be a pain! I was looking for an alternative and came
Tools Adminer - A single file database management tool I've shifted to Adminer [https://github.com/vrana/adminer] from the wildly popular phpMyAdmin [https://www.phpmyadmin.net/]. For importing an existing database export, as mentioned here [http://sourceforge.net/p/
Tools Glances - A new open source system monitoring tool Just came across a neat new system monitoring tool called Glances. Installation on my mac was extremely straight forward and issue free! A standard pip install worked out of the box using: pip
Markdown Converting HTML to Markdown I often need to convert my legacy HTML files to markdown. There are couple of ways of accomplishing this using: * domchristie/to-markdown - Using node.js * xijo/reverse_markdown - Using a ruby
Tools Run wp-calypso on a different port Wordpress launched a new platform based on javascript leveraging libraries like Node and React. Matt Mullenweg spelled out more details in his post Dance to Calypso [http://ma.tt/2015/11/dance-to-calypso/]. I
Hacks Stitching a set of video files together Similar to the previous two posts (Cut a video from desired time intervals and Creating a custom animated gif from a selected duration of a video), I have now a requirement to stich
Hacks Cut a video from desired time intervals Similar to my earlier post on Creating a custom animated gif from a selected duration of a video, I now want the custom video itself! The video I had taken at the International
Hacks Open Source & Free Password Manager I have about 200 user accounts to keep track off and they have 200 passwords out of caution! You simply never know which service will get hacked at some point. Till now, I
Electron Desktop client for WhatsApp Here is a great desktop client for WhatsApp built using the all mighty Electron! Go ahead and download from bcalik/Whatsapp-Desktop And yeah! It works great and on all platforms!