Generally Useful Stuff

https://compressor.io - Compress and optimize your images. Up to 90% file size reduction 😼

https://cors.now.sh - Reverse proxy with CORS headers. Example:

// The XKCD URL below doesn't allow CORS.
fetch('https://cors.now.sh/http://xkcd.com/info.0.json')
.then(console.log)
.catch(console.error)
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Coding 

The Auto-Journal

Started working on this project. Basically, Huginn will collect the stuff I do each week online and send me a summary email.

So far I’ve got: Ghost Blog -> Slack -> Huginn -> Emails me the link

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Huginn 

Fish Shell

Fish Shell main page: http://fishshell.com/

Fisherman - Fish package manager that I’m using. Currently installed:

  • edc/bass Bass makes it easy to use utilities written for Bash in fish shell. I’m using it to wrap nvm in a function.
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Huginn Ideas

Alexa Music Watcher (In Progress) 

  Collect the songs we play through Alexa and send a weekly report with our most played Artists / Songs. 

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Huginn Ideas

Alexa Music Watcher (In Progress)

Collect the songs we play through Alexa and send a weekly report with our most played Artists / Songs.

IFTTT Alexa -> IFTTT Maker -> Huginn Webhook -> *JS Agent -> *Email

Just need to write the Huginn JS Agent and connect it to my Auto-Journal email.

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VS Code Awesome Sauce

Plugins

Quokka.js

Quokka.js - This makes any file into a live REPL. Really nice. If using NVM be sure to add to settings:

"quokka.node":"/FULL/PATH_TO/.nvm/versions/node/VERSION/bin/node"
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