https://sairam.dev/tags/tools/ Recent content in tools on Sai Ram's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2020. All rights reserved. Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/cli-productivity-fzf-yank/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/cli-productivity-fzf-yank/ fzf Came across an powerful CLI fzf utility. There are plugins for vim, tmux and bash too. If you are a command line junkie like I am, you should definitely not miss this. yank do check out yank and on mac with brew install yank source: http://brewformulas.org/yank Now fzf | yank ps -ef | fzf | yank copy the selected output from fzf and copy it into clipboard. https://sairam.dev/post/data-visualization-tools/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 20:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/data-visualization-tools/ As part of work I was looking at a problem and came across an amazing set of Data Visualization tools. You may have seen this Data Visualization Talk from couple of years ago. Data Visualization by GapMinder is a proper tool for analyzing large sets of data. This video below is dated (2003), but the tool can be used as-is at gapminder.org/tools The vision of GapMinder is to fight ignorance with a fact based worldview that everyone can understand Other Tools Gap Minder Desktop Tableau Juila Plots Finding the types of charts Start off here to learn what Chart Types to use for the situation http://www. https://sairam.dev/post/til-imagemagick-scripts/ Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:28:45 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/til-imagemagick-scripts/ I was generating logos for Git Notify’s Chrome Extension with the help of GoSpaces Tools. I have got a generic one in a decent sized banner. I had to crop off in the centre. imagemagick to the rescue. but the args? A simple Google search solved it. convert input.jpg -gravity center -crop 25x25+0+0 output.jpg source: Image Magick Forum Fred Weinhaus has put together lots of Image Magick scripts. One I was looking was to crop in the middle is called squareup. https://sairam.dev/post/bye-bye-delicious-yo-pinboard/ Sun, 03 Apr 2016 21:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/bye-bye-delicious-yo-pinboard/ Delicious has been one of my favourite and a tool that I have held since 200[78]. The entity has been through several transitions. People have feared and moved out and became in-active. del.icio.us the most famous domain hack around 2008. Yahoo bought it, later sold it and I don’t know what happened later on. Then, starting around Dec 2015, Delicious started popping up Advertisements. They were like the ads from 2000s where you see amazing animations which sucked.