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3 Github tools that could be useful for you

akgondber — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 22:19:53 +0000

In this post I am going to show you 3 web services for github giving you useful functionality.

It provides a beautiful way to tour the history of a file in a GitHub repo. As an input you specify some file from a github repository and as an output you have time travel for this file changes over time with cool interface. For example, you have opened https://github.com/webpro-nl/knip/blob/main/packages/knip/src/compilers/compilers.ts file in the browser, in order to see a history with cool interface all you want to do is to change github.com with githistory.xyz. It will look as the following:

profile-summary-for-github

Tool for visualizing GitHub profiles. You head to https://profile-summary-for-github.com/, enters github username you wish to get summary for. The result could be something like this:

github-profile-readme-maker

Best Profile Generator, Create your perfect GitHub Profile ReadMe in the best possible way. Lots of features and tools included, all for free !

It has a plenty of features:

I hope you will find this article useful.

Train your typing speed with typing-game-cli

akgondber — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:10:15 +0000

Have you ever thought about improving your typing speed? May be you are stopped practicing developing this skill because of this looks like kinda boring? In this post I want to introduce you a program that will help you develop this skill in an interesting and fun way. This program will be especially interesting for users who live in the command line, since it is a game in the command line view.

This typing experience going to be challenging since you will compete against ... (no, not against that cat, she is beyound competition, I assure you, I tried to compete, but suffered a crushed defeat, it was a shame) a robot.

To see source code of this package you could head to github repo. This program published as npm package so if you are not using nodejs you probably would have to install it first, before installing this package globally. You can install it with desired package manager, either npm or any other (pnpm/yarn, etc.), for example:

$ npm install -g typing-game-cli

then run a program:

$ typing-game-cli

which will result in displaying menu where you can start a new game round by pressing y key.

Now you should print showed text as fast as you can. Running round loooks like the following:

This way, the text you typed appears in the left box, and the robot's text appears in the right box. Your goal appropriately is to print more symbols than a robot in order to win. There is many options you can use while issuing typing-game-cli command. Let's show some of them. First of all, I suggest you pay attention to the fact that you can launch several robots having different levels of typing speed:

--low - low typing speed
--medium - medium typing speed robot
--fast - fast typing speed robot
--extra-fast - extra fast typing speed robot

When you have played at least one round with a robot you will an option to compete with yourself - in this case you would compete against your best result. This way, you will try to improve your typing speed in each round, setting new records. In order to run a game against your best result you could use --against-my-best (or its aliases, for example: --best/-b), i.e. command will look like the following:

$ typing-game-cli --against-my-best

$ typing-game-cli -b

You could see all available options int the readme or by using --help:

$ typing-game-cli --help

For example in them menu you could press an r key to display your top results (or all results by using --show-all-history flag). Also results can be displayed by issuing a command with --display-results/-r flag:

$ typing-game-cli -r

Happy improving your typing speed!

Npm Check and Update/Delete Package If Needed

akgondber — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:58:35 +0000

As for dealing with sticking up to date dependencies in our projects one approach is npm outdated command, that will display a list of installed packages with their current version and the latest available version.

In order to update your dependencies listed in package.json one can use npm update command.

In this post I want you introduce much more powerful tool called npm-check-extras - CLI app to check for outdated and unused dependencies, and run update/delete action over selected ones.
In order to use it you can install it globally using

$ npm install -g npm-check-extras

or execute it by using npx:

npx npm-check-extras

and then you will have a UI to interactively update/delete packages with plenty of additional options. Main feature of course is update/delete packages with possibilities to toggle target packages desired to be actioned about. You can select packages by specifying a filter query.

As you can see there are many options you can use: targeting only development dependencies, looking at global packages, etc. One option you could find handy is storing a history of actions and viewing it so you can monitor and analyze what packages were updated/deleted while working on a project.

Practice your english by what-is-word-cli console game

akgondber — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 21:24:23 +0000

Hello! In this post I want to share the command line tool called what-is-word-cli - CLI game where your task is to unscramble words by given definition.
Your goal is to give correct word for as many definitions as possible and get maximum score.

Example round looks like this:

Try it out and expand your vocabulary with pleasure!

Do some interesting stuff with console-fun

akgondber — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 21:32:50 +0000

I want to share a console-fun - command-line app providing stuff to have a fun and watch some animations with texts, figures, etc. and also play different games from the command line.

First of all you need to install this package globally, using your preferred package manager

npm install --global console-fun

yarn global add console-fun

Then you can run a console-fun command. You can also use shorter aliases created for convenience: confun, cofun or cofu.
When running this cli program you can provide a --topic option - currently there are two different variants - game and print and the --item option.
For example if you want to play colored-stars-watcher game issue the following command:

console-fun --topic game --item colored-stars-watcher

or using an alias:

cofu --topic game --item colored-stars-watcher

In the print topic you can do some stuff over text content, for example: read-file - read file line by line (useful tool that provides support to read file in very handy way): console-fun --topic print --item read-file --subject tmp/bar.txt

hacker-types - immitates fast coding - type any random keys from the keyboard and there will be populated some snippet at the console (you can surprise your friend by this thing):

console-fun --topic print --item hacker-types

I hope you would find something useful for you from this tool.

Manipulate media files like a pro

akgondber — Fri, 31 May 2024 06:06:58 +0000

Hello! In this post I want to share a command-line tool called media-utils-cli - utilities for media files - converting, placing, transforming, resizing, generating video/audio files with added content, animations, etc.

It supports plenty of functions, categorized for image, video and pdf files. Let me highliht some use cases in this post.

Converting all video files in folder to gif

This is my most frequently used tool when I need to convert video demos to gif format.

Cut up video

Create a video by adding title and subtitle to image

You can find useful utils for dealing with image, video, pdf files, etc. Happy manipulating!

Improve your content searching/filtering workflow productivity with regexp-it-cli

akgondber — Sun, 05 May 2024 22:33:32 +0000

Involve regular expressions to solve different kind of tasks regarding text content

Let me introduce a nodejs library called regexp-it-cli - cli tool that provides content searching/filtering functionality by regular expressions. It has plenty of features, some of them will be highlighted in this post.

I am going to demonstrate some use cases where this tool would be applicable.

Regexp playground

You can experiment with regular expression by passing some content as a source and executing your trial regular over it. For example, display only matched parts for specified regexp:

Show some content in slide mode

Have you ever wanted a find functionality without dealing with manually movement handling to the next match but automatically see the next matches with some interval? Slide mode to the rescue! Use the --slide-mode option optionally providing also --slide-delay specifying a delay in seconds you'd like:

Filtering content between sections

You can use regexp in a source only after/before specified --after-regexp and --before-regexp:

gist.githubusercontent.com

Displaying first and last match

Display only first/last match by providing the --only-first-match / --only-last-match flag

$ regexp-it-cli --url "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inversify/InversifyJS/master/src/container/container.ts" --regexp "throw.*" -m -q --only-first-match

Using predefined patterns

Use predefined patterns instead of specifying --regexp yourself by using --regexp-pattern option.

regexp-it-cli --file "samples/misc.txt" --regexp-pattern "urlLine" -e -m -q

Specify starting/ending line from a source to be used as a content

Apply filter to content that is going to be used a source for a regular expression by using the --starting-line-number, --ending-line-number options.