Playing around with PeppermintOS on a "new " old laptop, and having fun. Its making me realize that tiny things can really work to impress. (Especially when you’re waiting on a ram upgrade, haha!)
Could be terminal based or GUI, I’m just curious—what tiny apps do you use that you think are neat? Things that don’t take up much storage or memory.
tealdeer takes up 3.7MB on my system. It’s a rust implementation of
tldr- simplified man pages with practical examples. If I want to do some common thing with a program I don’t use very often, chances are I can type (e.g.)tldr killand it’ll tell me what I need to know.Who needs to learn about
killwhenkill -9is all anyone needs? ;)
tldr - what a great idea! man pages are too detailed when a simple syntax confirmation is needed.
tldr ln+man ln== lol
Wow, thanks. I had no idea something like
tldrexisted.
jqfor parsing/formatting/manipulating JSON, and itsyqwrapper for YAML. Holy shit you can do powerful queries with them.
Or the even faster successor gojq.
Not sure how big the JSON files are you’re messing with, but I’ve never had any noticeable delay using
jq.When you’re dealing with log files that are on the order of 100 MB or 1+ GB in size,
jqcan, indeed, be a bit slow. Often I usegrepas a first-pass filter, which speeds things up tremendously. I’ll have to givegojqa try and see if it makes the initialgrepunneeded. The downside is thatjqis often already installed everywhere I need it (VMs, base docker images, etc.), butgojqdefinitely is not (yet).
I use
jqfor decoding base64 😂pbpaste | jq -R 'split(".") | .[0],.[1] | @base64d | fromjson'Big fan of gron and grep myself. Way easier if you’re not doing anything crazy.
For sure. Often I use
grepas a first pass to find relevant entries in JSON-lines formatted log files, and then pass that throughjq(oryq -yif I want YAML output) for further filtering, processing, and formatting.
gnumeric runs great on any old linux machine - it isn’t as sophisticated as Libreoffice Calc but for basic spreadsheeting, it’s very fast and lightweight.
gnucash is an alternative to quickbooks for accounting - it’s been around so long that it will run on anything and it does the job without sharing your data or bombarding you with ads.
you can always run nmap in the terminal and have some fun with that.
yt-dl for videos
and gallery-dl for pictures good stuff
yt-dl for videos
Or the fork yt-dlp
If you have both
yt-dlpandmpvinstalled, you can enjoy watching YouTube videos directly in terminal rendered as text art. Give it a try:mpv --vo=tct "https://youtube.com/watch?v=BBJa32lCaaY"Wait this sounds hilarious I’m trying this
Ripgrep is honestly such an awesome tool. Super fast, easy to use, and has built-in support for hidden files and .gitignores making it more flexible than traditional grep.
ledger because I love to know about my money
Nice. I’ve been putting off for some time trying to find something better than GnuCash or buckling down and writing my own. This looks perfect.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English2•2 years ago
What do you dislike about GnuCash?
A few things, like:
- I don’t need (or want, really) a GUI. Inputting with
vimis pretty ideal. - Having a plain text file that’s easily legible and parseable and that I could convert into another format (by writing simple tools, worst case) is very appealing.
- It’s too opinionated.
- I don’t need (or want, really) a GUI. Inputting with
You should check out: https://plaintextaccounting.org
Wow! Will do. Thanks.
entrto run arbitrary commands when files change. For example, I use it in makefiles like this (see thewatchtarget):TARGET=report.pdf SOURCE=report.md $(TARGET): $(SOURCE) pandoc --citeproc -o $(TARGET) $(SOURCE) watch: echo $(SOURCE) | entr make $(TARGET) clean: rm -f $(TARGET) .PHONY: clean watch
vitetris! 🎮🧱💻
I like axel (CLI) - it’s been my main downloader for some years now.
Vim, but specifically the built in file browser. I use it all the time. It can view the contents of compressed files too.
nnn - the fastest terminal file manager which supports plugins gthumb - a simple picture editor/retouching tool
cool-retro-term for all your old-school CRT needs. 1.8M executable.
I really like Ventoy, it allows you to have multiple ISOs on a single flash drive in a pretty convenient way
Ventoy
😮 😍
- markdown is great if you write documents in markdown format, and need to convert them into HTML.
- tidy is useful for cleaning up HTML documents that are sloppy, poorly formatted, or use deprecated features.
- antiword and docx2txt for converting p̷͗̚͜r̷͍̰̪̓̃o̵̡͓̹̔p̵̮͎͊̈́̚r̵̟̈́̽ḭ̶̊e̶͐́͜ţ̶̪̣́̿ȃ̷͖̈́̀ṙ̴͈̞ÿ̸̹́̔ documents into simple, plain text, without the need for a word processor.
- dos2unix for converting text files between UNIX and DOS line endings.
Fossil SCM - single file providing SCM, web interface, wiki.
