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Issue #571  (Media, Testing, Uncats)06/27/24


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Media Tools (SVG, Video, etc.)

VChart — A cross-platform charting library and expressive data storyteller, to build interactive area charts, bar charts, stream graphs, funnels, and lots more.

Fluidmotion — A small set of 6 animated video backgrounds (not for every project!) that you can interactively customize and export as MP4.

Revideo — An open-source framework for programmatic video editing, forked from the editor of a popular TypeScript library called Motion Canvas.

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Code Screenshot — An elegant online tool to generate customizable screenshots of code snippets, with support for dozens of languages, different window frame styles, fonts, themes, and more.

Code Screenshot

Pic Smaller — An open-source batch image compression tool that supports  compression for JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, SVG and AVIF formats.

Ripl — A TypeScript library that provides a unified API for 2D graphics rendering (canvas & SVG) in the browser with a focus towards high performance and interactive data visualization.

Formatify — An online, mobile-friendly tool, that lets you convert to and from media file formats including photos, audio, and video, with free and unlimited usage.

Reshot — A collection of thousands of SVG icons, icon packs, and illustrations, categorized and available for use in commercial projects, no attribution required.

Burst — A free stock photo platform, powered by Shopify, that includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images shot by a global community of photographers.

Testing and Debugging Tools

snap — A snapshot testing companion for Node's node:test module, which facilitates the creation of JavaScript tests.

pgmock — An in-memory, dependency free PostgreSQL mock server for unit and end-to-end tests that runs entirely within WebAssembly on both Node.js and the browser.

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Uncompressed JavaScript Bytes Per Character — A simple online tool that lets you fetch and process the JSON data from a WebPageTest result, allowing you to analyze the uncompressed JavaScript bytes per character on the page.

Memlab Scenario Recorder — A Chrome DevTools recorder panel extension that exports scenario files for MemLab, Facebook's tool that helps you accelerate the discovery of memory leaks and leak sources.

JS Game Rendering Benchmark — A sprite-based performance test that compares a set of JavaScript-based rendering/game engines that are currently maintained (Three.js, PixiJS, Phaser, Babylon,js, etc).

JS Game Rendering Benchmark

Testplane — A fast, scalable, and robust testing solution that lets you test across environments, is developer friendly, is infinitely extensible, and scalable.

Hover Console — A Chromium browser extension that improves on JavaScript console.log() debugging using an on-page console that listens for console.log(), console.error(), etc., displaying results instantly.

i18n Playground — A small playground for debugging internationalization in different modules including next-intl, i18n, i18next, and react-i18next.

Web Platform Status — A tool to monitor and track the status of all web platform features across dimensions that are related to availability and implementation quality across browsers, and adoption by web developers.
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The Uncateg­orizables

reverst — A load-balanced reverse-tunnel server and Go server-client library built on QUIC and HTTP/3.

OnlineInterview.io — A free remote tech interview platform that allows you to conduct remote code interviews, discuss solutions, and collaboratively write code in the browser.

Nodemailer — A dependency-free module for Node.js that allows you to do easy email sending with Unicode and emoji support, attachments, DKIM signing, and lots more features.

OneUptime — A complete open-source observability platform for monitoring and managing your online services, with status pages, incident monitoring, and more.

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Neosync — An open-source data anonymization and synthetic data orchestration for developers to create high fidelity synthetic data and sync it across your environments.

MarsCode — A cloud-based IDE that includes a powerful AI assistant, doesn't require configuration, and offers extensions that support over 100 languages and mainstream IDEs.

Teranoptia — A typeface that's actually a set of "chimeric creatures" that might be useful for a border decoration or similar.

Teranoptia

Tailcall — A modern GraphQL runtime to swiftly design and ship best-practice GraphQL backends on top of existing data sources and APIs.

Markdowner — A fast open-source tool to convert any website into LLM-ready markdown data.

Commercial Apps & Classifieds

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DrawKit – A set of hand-drawn 2D and 3D illustrations, icons, and animations.
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Exmo – A solution for developers to monetize and promote their browser extensions.
Mockaron – An intuitive, no-code app to create mock REST APIs without server config or setup.
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CompressX – An offline Mac app to compress video, image, and GIF with up to 90% file size reduction.
Beatoven.ai – An intuitive AI music generator that lets you create and customize tracks to your needs.

An X Post for Thought

If you're attending a conference soon, I hope those speaking are as approachable as Zach, especially for those who are, as he says, more junior in experience level.
 
An X Post for Thought
 

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