Not every problem needs a project. These are the browser tools and services that get used week to week. Each one does a single job well.
Developer tools
- Visual Studio Code is the editor. See the VS Code guide for the extension set.
- Markdown is how we write. See Working with Markdown and the cheat sheet.
- NimbleText transforms text with patterns and templates. Useful for turning a column of values into code, SQL or configuration.
- Mockaroo generates realistic random data in JSON, CSV, SQL and other formats for testing and demos.
- JSON Editor Online views, edits, formats and validates JSON with a tree view.
- GUID Generator produces one GUID or a batch of them.
- Tables Generator builds Markdown, LaTeX, HTML and plain-text tables from a grid editor.
- HTML Table to Markdown rescues tables that a document conversion left as HTML.
Marketing and content
- copy.ai drafts product descriptions, posts and social copy from a prompt. Edit the output against the writing style.
- OFFEO makes short videos from templates: explainers, product demos and social clips.
- Sprout Social schedules posts, monitors mentions and reports across social accounts from one dashboard.
Essays that started here
Two wiki pages grew into full essays on wisejnrs.net:
- Data-Oriented Architecture on designing systems around the data they handle.
- Songwriting: A Step-by-Step Outline on structure for a song, which turns out to be structure for most creative work.