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Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup

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This is really more accessible through the associated Github repo's readme file, in my opinion:

https://github.com/everestpipkin/tools-list

Thank you, this is better by a lot

And a Google Form where you can submit your own tiny tool: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeS1wnK2-FYW7IKlcMK...

Thank you. The GH readme is actually usable.

This is excellent, thank you for sharing. I would love to hear which of these people have used, and found fun or useful.

I have been enjoying Bitsy games and poems recently and am excited to discover more projects in the same realm.

Here are some nice ones:

https://haraiva.itch.io/novena https://polclarissou.itch.io/moss-as-texture-as-space-foldin... https://ludonaut.itch.io/vestiges https://cephalopodunk.itch.io/radical-archaeologist https://haraiva.itch.io/topography

The other highlight from my quick skim is basiljs, which makes indesign scriptable through a Processing-like API. As an occasional book designer, that sounds like lots of fun!

Wow, those by cecile richard are really something. Thanks for sharing.

Yes, her work is really excellent. For anyone skimming, she is https://haraiva.itch.io/

I'm kinda confused what constitutes as tiny and experimental here if it includes items like Blender, GIMP, Reaper, VSCode and other big names

I think it's meant as "or", rather than "and"

They really meant 'or' not 'and' - free or tiny or experimental.

So it's like the poster in the mythical workshop:

    Repairs can be fast, cheap or proper.
    You can only choose two of the above.

In this case, our choices range from 1 to 3 it seems.

Perhaps, but REAPER is none of those things.

The description says "free and paid tiers" so I guess it was free when it was added to this list.

REAPER is free for 60 days, but they don't enforce the cost after that period. Possibly, the article writer believes that to be "free".

There's a similar project: https://tiny-helpers.dev/

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If you like this kind of thing, you should check out SpeakeasyJS, a JavaScript meetup for mad science, hacking, and experiments. You can see all previous talks here to get an idea: https://speakeasyjs.com/talks

Disclaimer: I am one of the meetup organizers.

I created a notebook in Observable with same data set: https://observablehq.com/@triptych/tiny-tools-viewer

"other programming languages" encompasses some languages that are among the most common, with disastrous consequences.

it shows a total number of zero (0) tools. What's the point?

That’s what the filter on the page is set to by default. It’s confusing and works less than well on mobile. Click All or any other tag there and you’ll see tools.

A neat collection and it’s always great to see people share open source software but the site could probably use a bit of work IMHO...

If you use uMatrix (the browser extension), it blocks by default some links from Google that are essential for the list to work; just disable it for this site.

This tool is so noisy that it's nearly unusable.

"Unity" is a tiny tool?

Unity is not listed in the GitHub link posted above, which only has Unity plugins, so I don't see how it's unusable.

Any list that includes LÖVE is interesting in my book. Thanks for sharing OP!

For varying definitions of tiny and experimental.

This is a really cool list and I'm glad it was shared!

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