One Thing Well

A weblog about simple, useful software (on any platform).

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Post to Twitter and Mastodon with simplicity.

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A DuckDuckGo-powered search engine designed for old browsers running on vintage computers.

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Put a single task or goal in your [macOS] menu bar.

Add a line of text to the menu bar, automate updates using a command line app, Shortcuts integration or the custom URL scheme.

See also

TextBar

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A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Low Maintenance Self-Hosted macOS CI

Cilicon is a macOS App that leverages Apple's Virtualization Framework to create, provision and run ephemeral virtual machines with minimal setup or maintenance effort.

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Visualize your git commits with a heat map in the terminal.

Heatwave generates a heat map of your git commits, similar to how GitHub's heat map looks. View all commits or a single user's commits for the past year or previous years.

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A simple RSS feed reader for the terminal.

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A tool for glamorous shell scripts.

A tool for glamorous shell scripts. Gum provides highly configurable, ready-to-use utilities to help you write useful shell scripts... with just a few lines of code.

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Smol Pub is [a] tiny blogging service.

Web interface and CLI to manage your posts.

Accessible from Web, Gemini and Gopher.

Storage for your images.

Write custom CSS for web.

Attach your custom domain with SSL.

Export your posts.

No JavaScript, ads, or tracking technology.

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Newsboat is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.

Use it locally, or sync with various RSS services/apps.

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Podget is a simple podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron). It features support for downloading podcasts from RSS & ATOM XML feeds, for sorting the files into folders & categories, for importing URLs from iTunes PCAST files & OPML lists automatic M3U & ASX playlist creation, and automatic cleanup of old files.

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Companion apps for Apple Music

Small remote apps to control Apple Music on macOS.

Control Music on macOS with modern recreations of the iTunes 10 MiniPlayer, the Mac OS X Tiger iTunes Dashboard widget, or the mostly-forgotten Music Player from the first Mac OS X Public Beta.

(Amusingly, I can’t try them out because my Macbook Pro is too old.)

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Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage.

Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage. It is a feature-rich alternative to cloud vendors' web storage interfaces. Over 40 cloud storage products support rclone... as well as standard transfer protocols.

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Happy Net Box is an experimental internet social experience based on the arcane and near-forgotten retro internet protocol known as FINGER.

With an optional command line tool that lets you follow updates from multiple Happy Net Box users rather than, er, fingering them individually.

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A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement.

This bar project aims to create a highly flexible, customizable, fast and powerful [macOS] status bar replacement for people that like playing with shell scripts.

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Open a web search in your terminal.

Search the web or specific sites from the command line, open results in your preferred web browser.

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A non-web browser

Bombadillo is a non-web browser, designed for a growing list of protocols operating outside of the web. Bombadillo is operated from your terminal, allowing you to browse content, follow links, and engage in the non-web with ease.

Bombadillo supports Finger, Gemini & Gopher, plus telnet and HTTP via external applications.