Best of Tools — August 2024
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TechCrunch·2y
Open source tools to boost your productivity
Open source technology offers alternatives to many proprietary software tools, providing benefits like added transparency, customizability, and security. Highlighted tools include Penpot for design, Cal.com for scheduling, Screenity for screen recording, Jitsi for video conferencing, Nextcloud for cloud storage, Ghost for publishing, and more. Each offers features to help individuals and businesses move away from Big Tech incumbents without compromising productivity.
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ITNEXT·2y
Frontend Performance Love Story
Discover innovative methods to enhance frontend performance, focusing on optimizing the initial load and fast page navigation. Learn about the Neo client approach using small JavaScript HTML-generators, avoiding server-side rendering (SSR) and hydration complexities. Explore the challenges of bundling tools with apps that allow user-generated code at runtime, and how to run development and production versions concurrently. Interactive multi-window views and upcoming performance boosts are also discussed.
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Community Picks·2y
Coding Career Advice: Keeping a Daily Work Journal
Keeping a daily work journal can significantly benefit developers by boosting productivity, aiding in debugging, and providing valuable input for performance reviews. The practice involves documenting tasks, conversations, problems encountered, and priorities for the next day. Tools like Boostnote and VS Code are recommended for maintaining such journals electronically in Markdown format. Proper organization of entries by date can enhance the utility of the journal.
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Dev Squad·2y
Best 8 Tool for Front-End Developer
Front-end developers are always on the lookout for tools to streamline their workflows and improve productivity. This post highlights the best 8 tools for front-end development, including features, benefits, and pricing for each tool. Notable mentions include Visual Studio Code, Bootstrap, and Lighthouse.
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System Weakness·2y
Finding origin ip address
The post provides various methods and tools to find the origin IP address of websites hidden behind Web Application Firewalls (WAF) like Cloudflare. It suggests manual techniques using platforms such as Shodan and DNS lookup tools, and also lists automation tools available on GitHub for the same purpose.
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Lobsters·2ysuperbrothers/opener: Open URL in your local web browser from the SSH-connected remote environment.
Opener is a daemon that allows users to open URLs in their local web browser from an SSH-connected remote environment. It uses local commands like 'open' on macOS or 'xdg-open' on Linux. Users forward the socket file of the opener daemon when logging into SSH, enabling the remote to send URLs back to the local environment for opening. Installation involves Homebrew, setting up SSH configs, and creating fake 'open' commands.
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nolanlawson/fuite: A tool for finding memory leaks in web apps
Fuite is a CLI tool designed to help identify memory leaks in web applications. It uses Puppeteer to automate browsers, running scenarios multiple times to detect leaks in objects, event listeners, DOM nodes, and collections. Fuite provides multiple options for custom scenarios, saving heap snapshots, and running in debug mode. The results can be output to a JSON file for detailed analysis. It's mainly useful for SPAs due to its method of internal link navigation and back-clicking to detect leaks.
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