WEB VERSION Issue #589 • October 31, 2024 Advertisement Introducing a New Approach to Mobile App Security Join Guardsquare's webinar to learn more about our new guided configuration approach to mobile application protection. Our latest innovation ensures that all developers, regardless of their security knowledge, can effortlessly launch apps with industry-leading protection – in less than a day. Register Now → CSS & HTML Tools Tailwind Sync — A Figma plugin that bridges Figma variables and Tailwind code, streamlining the collaboration between designers and developers, from simple projects to design systems. HEX·P3 — An online tool to quickly convert your hex colors to the Display P3 color space, which is designed for use in displays and devices intended for professional video content editing and vibrant image display. CSS Spring Easing Generator — An online tool designed to make generating spring easings for CSS more intuitive by using three presets: smooth, snappy, and bouncy. Introducing a New Approach to Mobile App Security — Join Guardsquare to learn more about our new guided configuration approach to mobile application protection.   SPONSORED  CSS Triggers — An interactive info site, inspired by an older project, that helps you understand how to write more performant CSS with explanations on which properties affect layout shift, repaints, and composites. tailwindcss-motion — A Tailwind plugin that has a simple syntax for adding prebuilt or customized animations to elements in a Tailwind-based project. Easing Graphs — An online tool to view and generate cubic easing and spring easings. You can preview each one on the page, customize them, and export as CSS or Framer Motion. Pretty Markup — A preprocessor similar to older tools like Pug that makes writing markup easier using a more natural, hierarchical format. tailwindcss-highlights — A Tailwind plugin that adds a set of highlight-like effects (similar to a paint brush or highlighting marker) enabled via 20 Tailwind classes. snow-fall — A web component to easily add snow to a web page or element on the page, with settings to change the color, number of flakes, size, etc.   Git, GitHub, & CLI Tools route-list — An npm package that lets you display Express, Koa, Hapi, and Fastify routes in your terminal. gradient-string — A TypeScript package that displays beautiful color gradients in your terminal text output via 10+ built-in gradients and ability to generate custom multi-line and advanced gradients. 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Yist — A Mac app that lets you manage your GitHub Gists with seamless syncing, intuitive editing, and powerful organization. remark-gfm — A plugin for Remark (a popular Markdown processor) that adds support for Github Flavored Markdown (GFM). Advertisement Gain Visibility into Your React Component Usage Omlet helps you analyze how and where components are used across your code repositories, so you can reduce front-end tech debt & prove the value of your design system. See how it works. Measure design system adoption over time, estimate the impact of deprecating components, identify projects using legacy components, and surface similar components for consolidation.  Try Omlet for free and have your component report ready in less than 5 minutes. Try for Free →   Vue Tools vue-i18n — An internationalization plugin for Vue that's easy to use, powerful, and component-oriented. 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The Current – Join 500k sub­scribers and get unbiased, expert-curated tech news and tips.    AD  BeyondDone – A service to track your contributions and tasks across GitHub, Jira, and Confluence. BetterTerminal – A Mac app to enhance your terminal experience and improve productivity. Techpresso – Join 100,000+ free daily readers for the latest AI and tech news, tools, and insights.    AD  PR Focus – A Mac app that makes it easy to track your pull requests across repos without using GitHub. URL Monitor – A service to monitor URLs in real time, ensure safe indexing, and boost SEO. An X Post for Thought Stefan Judis asked an interesting question about short vs. verbose commit messages, leading to a variety of answers in the thread that you might find interesting.     Send Me Your Tools! Made something? Reply to this email or send links via Direct Message on X @LouisLazaris (details here). No tutorials or articles, please. 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WEB VERSION Issue #588 • October 24, 2024 Advertisement WorkOS: Modern Identity Platform for B2B SaaS With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. WorkOS provides a complete user management solution along with SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and Audit Logs.  Modular and easy-to-use APIs allow you to finish integrating in minutes instead of months.  User management is free up to 1 million MAUs and includes bot protection, MFA, roles/permissions, and more. WorkOS powers some of the fastest growing startups like Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow. Start Integrating Today → JavaScript Utilities Cacheable — A robust, scalable, and maintained set of caching packages for Node.js that can be used in various projects. dead-or-alive — A small utility for Node.js and the browser to check if URLs are dead or alive, mainly useful for documentation or similar to ensure links aren't broken. Add SSO the Easy Way — WorkOS helps you ship SSO and other enterprise features this afternoon. From high-quality documentation to self-serve onboarding for your customers, we remove all the unnecessary complexity for your engineers.   SPONSORED  Pechkin — A modern, asynchronous, flexible and configurable Node.js library for handling file uploads (i.e. multipart/form-data requests), written in TypeScript. fast-grid — A multithreaded web table component for JavaScript that's capable of running 120fps while sorting/filtering/scrolling simultaneously. fdir — A fast and hackable directory crawler and globbing library for Node.js that crawls one million files in less than one second. Storage — A client-side storage utility that provides a set of adapters that normalize across various client storage mechanisms with a consistent key-value API. super-regex — A utility for Node.js to make a regular expression time out if it takes too long to execute. ts-blank-space — A small, fast, pure JavaScript type-stripper that uses the official TypeScript parser. loop-once — A safer loop to iterate synchronously or asynchronously any unique identifier, addressing a specific use case (see demo code). Media Tools (SVG, Video, etc.) Avaaatars — A large library of 600+ free photo avatars, with customizable backgrounds and border shape, available in Figma, PNG, Sketch, Adobe XD, or as a Figma plugin. Logoipsum — A library of 100 free logo placeholders in various styles, fonts, colors, etc., that you can try out directly on the page and download as SVG. CoolShapes — A set of 100+ abstract shapes with a grainy or smooth gradient, available as SVG, PNG, React/JSX, or Figma. Frame0 — A native Mac, Windows, or Linux app to sketch your app ideas and wireframes using a hand-drawn style, so you can quickly express a UI concept. Video-to-ASCII — Upload a video or use your webcam to convert the video to a text-based or ASCII version of the video, which you can then export as MP4. Isocons — A large set of isometric icons, categorized, searchable, and customizable using fill settings, sharp/round edges, stroke width, etc. Endless Tools — A web-based design and animation app with a constantly updated collection of ready to use fonts, visual effects, shapes, and 3D objects. Lysted: Your Ticket Reselling Side Hustle — Looking for a side hustle? Use Lysted to resell event tickets. List once and reach buyers across platforms like StubHub and Ticketmaster. Enjoy automated pricing and quick payouts. It’s a hassle-free way to make extra cash from unused tickets.     SPONSORED  svg.wtf — An SVG playground for learning to use SVG with an interactive canvas for dealing with the different parts of the SVG syntax. alphaTab — A cross platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library, which you can use in your own website or app to load and display sheet music and tabs. Advertisement Gain Visibility into Your React Component Usage Omlet helps you analyze how and where components are used across your code repositories, so you can reduce front-end tech debt & prove the value of your design system. See how it works. Measure design system adoption over time, estimate the impact of deprecating components, identify projects using legacy components, and surface similar components for consolidation.  Try Omlet for free and have your component report ready in less than 5 minutes. 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