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Issue #690  (Media Tools, JS Plugins, Git/CLI Tools)10/08/26


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Media Tools (SVG, Video, etc.)

Fantasy Map Generator β€” An open source, interactive tool that helps fantasy writers, game masters, and cartographers create and edit fantasy maps.

audio β€” A suite of 140+ high-level audio manipulations in JavaScript, including de-noise, dynamics, EQ, filters, effects, reverb, time and pitch, spatial, synthesis, music analysis, and more.

Dither It! β€” A web tool to customize and process dither effects for any image, all done locally with access to various dither modes and algorithms.

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Public Domain Image Archive β€” A hand-picked collection of 11,000+ out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse, with new images added weekly.

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Remocn β€” A copy-paste component library on the shadcn registry, for building videos in Remotion, allowing you to add polished primitives into your project without the need to write every fade, wipe, etc. from scratch.

Snippets β€” A web tool to generate pretty code snippet screenshots, with features to customize the background, typography, window style, and layout.

YouTube Channel Visualizer β€” A free, browser-based app for exploring and analyzing any YouTube channel on an interactive canvas, transforming videos into a stunning visual graph via the YouTube Data API.

Vizua β€” A free suite of browser-based image tools for compression, resizing, conversion, and editing, with all files processed locally when a tool runs.

JS Library Tools & Plugins

preact-mcp β€” An MCP server for querying documentation and repositories for Preact, with support for 13+ resources.

astromd4x β€” A drop-in replacement for @astrojs/markdown-remark, powered by md4x, boasting 50-70x faster markdown rendering with a single native dependency.

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liquid-glass-svelte β€” A Svelte component that reproduces Apple's liquid glass effect, with customizable options for background color, blur, edge width, sheen, and more.

ng2-charts β€” A library to create beautiful charts for Angular projects, based on Chart.js, and installable using the Angular CLI.

Pascal Editor β€” An open source, local-first 3D building editor built with React Three Fiber and WebGPU, allowing you to run it in the browser or from the CLI, and connect AI agents through MCP.

Pascal Editor

Β΅signal β€” A blend of @preact/signals-core and solid-js basic reactivity API, with API and DX mostly identical to @preact/signals-core but extra goodness inspired by solid-js, 816 bytes minified with brotli.

Angular Skills β€” Official skills designed to help coding agents create applications aligned with the latest versions of Angular, best practices, new features, and manage Angular applications effectively.

@lucky-media/astro-seo β€” Next.js App Router-style generateMetadata for Astro, to configure site-level SEO defaults once in astro.config.mjs and override per-page with a familiar API.
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Git, GitHub & CLI Tools

Saggar β€” A native Mac terminal manager where you can run coding agents and shells side by side and every session is a real terminal you can read, type into, and take over.

Amber β€” A modern, type-safe programming language that compiles to Bash and catches bugs and errors at compile time.

wasm-git β€” Git for Node.js and the browser using libgit2 and compiled to WebAssembly with Emscripten.

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GitSync Lite β€” A Mac app that lives in your menu bar and keeps an eye on all your Git repositories, scanning your dev directories, showing which repos have uncommitted changes or unpushed commits, so you can stay up to date.

HQTUI β€” Build terminal applications in TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, and Zig, with a new native C++ ten-screen demo over the shared C rendering core.

HQTUI

GitHub Stacked PRs β€” A GitHub CLI extension for managing stacked branches and pull requests, breaking large changes into a chain of small, reviewable pull requests that build on each other.

vy β€” A terminal viewer for exploring JSON and YAML, enabling you to browse trees, search, extract, and transform data with jaq, and use focus to explore subtrees.

Oak β€” A version control system for agents, developed as a Cargo workspace: a reusable VCS library plus a command-line client that agents drive.

Commercial Apps & Classifieds

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Before I Go...

If you enjoy museums, you might like Anthropeum, a daily browser game where players guess the geographic origin and time period of ten artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.

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