2025 – 2021: Posts tagged #app
Whenever someone is sharing their stack of apps and tools, I find that very interesting. Choosing tools, especially as a coder, is a personal thing. Some of the apps I´m using originated from bloggers mentioning their lists of tools. This is my list.
Fancy-Border-Radius is a tool written by Nils Binder, that allows to create and play with blobs by setting the horizontal and vertical radii with the CSS property border-radius.
The System Color Picker by Sindre Sorhus is an excellent alternative to my ColorSlurp. The System Color Picker is a free tool as opposed to the very expensive ColorSlurp. Yet, System Color Picker has excellent features, such as:
- picking a color with a magnifying glass by using a keyboard shortcut that can be freely configured,
- showing and hiding the app window with a freely configurable keyboard shortcut,
- support of color formats Hex, HSL, RGB, OKLCH and LCH,
- defining a preferred color format,
- creating color palettes,
- a set of four starting palettes (Apple, Crayons, System, Web Safe Colors).
Modular Scale is a simple, quick, and free tool by Scott Kellum and Tim Brown to calculate and visualize different type scales.
nuudel is a non-tracking app to be used for coordinating meeting schedules, or, more generally, performing polls. Polls are automatically deleted after 720 days but you can decide a sooner date.
Toptal Keycodes provides JavaScript key event information about pressed keyboard keys. There is also a table with a listing of all keycodes of a US standard 101 keyboard.
Maskable.app allows to verify if you have enough padding on your PWA´s maskable icon.
Sqoosh is a progressive web app from GoogleChromeLabs that will reduce the size of your images and convert your images to various formats, like AVIF, Browser GIF, Browser JPEG, Browser PNG, JPEG XL, MozJPEG, OxiPNG, QOI, and WebP. You can also resize and reduce the palette. The entire code runs locally in your browser. You are not sharing your images with any server! The source is on GitHub.
Squoosh does not send your image to a server. All image compression processes locally. However, Squoosh utilizes Google Analytics to collect the following:
- Basic visitor data.
- The before and after image size value.
- If Squoosh PWA, the type of Squoosh installation.
- If Squoosh PWA, the installation time and date.
Arrows by Trys Mudford is a tiny Progressive Web App that allows to copy unicode symbols (like arrows) quickly to the clipboard. You can add your own symbols too!
tldraw.com is a free online multiplayer whiteboard for up to 30 contributors. I use it in situations where not everyone has access to online whiteboard or when and a quick sharing of ideas is required.
gradient.style by Adam Argyle is a tool to create high quality gradients and choose the color space.