eg312
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Comment · 2 days ago
You can save a web page or a text selection as ebook with this free and open source browser extension https://github.com/alexadam/save-as-ebook
It can also apply Readability before saving and it has a simple editor that you can use to remove unwanted html elements from a page.
Comment · 2 months ago
An interactive compound-interest explainer, based on The Compound Effect book https://github.com/alexadam/compound-effect
Added more widgets to Printable Mockups https://github.com/alexadam/printable-mockups & https://www.printablemockups.com/
Comment · 3 months ago
With the help of AI & LLMs I restarted working on some of my older side projects. I updated the code and did a landing page for Printable Mockups (a free, open-source drag-and-drop tool for creating device accurate wireframes and sketchpads that you can export as PDFs, print, and sketch on by hand) https://github.com/alexadam/printable-mockups
I plan to add more features soon.
Comment · 4 months ago
Nice work! I’ve built something… similar: https://github.com/alexadam/printable-mockups & https://www.printablemockups.com It’s free, open source, no backend needed and you can use it in the browser. I plan to add more widgets and support full page templates, like yours.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, it's inspired by it but I didn't like the fact that all the available options are hidden and I had to search every time I wanted to add something.
With my app, you can organize you favorite gitignores as lists.
Comment · 4 years ago
I just needed a quick way to write in MD and have 'templates' with parameters to avoid copy/paste/replace, especially when documenting shell commands.
Comment · 4 years ago
That's why I made https://reactivedoc.com/. You can use it to write interactive documentation in markdown and save it as a simple, self-contained, html+js file.
Now I'm working on v2, with cleaner syntax & more widgets (I want to add an embedded web base terminal to run shell commands), you can see an example here: https://reactivedoc.com/editor/
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm working on https://reactivedoc.com/ - it's markdown + some custom widgets, and you can export it as a self-contained html file.
I made it to solve my own problems: document commands & scripts and replace parameters with user input values. Soon I will release a new version with simpler syntax.
Comment · 4 years ago
I needed a way to document my shell scripts (or code snippets) and to quickly replace “parameters”. For example, if you want to download a YT video as mp3, you have to remember this command “youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 <video URL>” . You can use the autocomplete & history in the terminal but you still have to remember parts of the command and replace the old URL with the new one. You can also save it in a text file, and replace <video URL> … too many select/replace/copy/paste ops…
A few months ago I made a good enough solution for my problem https://github.com/alexadam/reactive-doc - it saves ~ 10 minutes/day when I have to run complex devops scripts. And I can quickly share the ‘docs’ because they are just plain html files / or markdown.
Now I just finished the next iteration - better ‘syntax’ for input widgets, runnable @shell commands and a web based terminal https://github.com/alexadam/shell-driver with custom filters and selection actions (useful for me)
Next steps: add more features to the web based terminal -> convert history to scripts, autocomplete with parameters, command palette & context aware menus, multiple terminals (with tabs or panels). I also want to add support for React components in the MD editor.
Comment · 4 years ago
Time is money and https://reactivedoc.com/ saves me ~500 minutes/month and I also have a paying user. I made it because I needed a simple, self-hosted tool to create documentation with "parameters". The output is a self-contained html file. Coupled with an external runner, it's a great automation tool for simple tasks.