Is coding in Rust as bad as in C++?

A practical comparison of build and test speed between C++ and Rust.

🔗 https://quick-lint-js.com/blog/cpp-vs-rust-build-times/

#article #rust #programming #development

gowitness

gowitness is a website screenshot utility written in Golang, that uses Chrome Headless to generate screenshots of web interfaces using the command line, with a handy report viewer to process results.

🌐 https://github.com/sensepost/gowitness

#opensource #go #security #web #screenshot #scraping #archive

dust

Dust is meant to give you an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. It's a more intuitive version of du in rust.

🌐 https://github.com/bootandy/dust

#opensource #rust #tool #utility #sysadmin #cli #tui

bat

A cat clone with wings, supporting syntax highlighting and Git integration, written in rust.

🌐 https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

#opensource #sysadmin #tool #utility #rust

skim

A fuzzy finder written in rust. Quickly find files by name or content with extensive search syntax. Even comes with a file preview feature right in your shell.

🌐 https://github.com/lotabout/skim

#opensource #sysadmin #rust #productivity #tool #utility

Trippy

A network diagnostic tool, inspired by mtr. Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the diagnosis of network issues.

🌐 https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy

#opensource #tool #utility #network #rust #sysadmin

ripgrep (rg)

ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern. It's similar to other popular search tools like The Silver Searcher, ack and grep. Probably the fastest grep alternative out there (5-8x faster than GNU grep).

🔗 https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
🌐 https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

#opensource #tool #utility #rust #sysadmin

fd

fd is a program to find entries in your filesystem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. While it does not aim to support all of find's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases.

🌐 https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

#opensource #sysadmin #rust #tool #utility

navi

An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line. navi allows you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands. Suggested values for arguments are dynamically displayed in a list.

🌐 https://github.com/denisidoro/navi

#opensource #rust #sysadmin #cli #cheatsheet

Microsoft PowerToys

A set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. It offers unique features such as

- Always on Top
- FancyZones
- PowerToys Run
- PowerRename
- File Locksmith

I mostly use FancyZones in order to quickly arrange my open Windows in a way I prefer.

🌐 https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

#opensource #tool #windows #utility #productivity

Motion Canvas

Motion Canvas is two things:

• A TypeScript library that uses generators to program animations.
• An editor providing a real-time preview of said animations.

It's a specialized tool designed to create informative vector animations and synchronize them with voice-overs.

Example video created with Motion Canvas (by the developer himself): https://youtu.be/R6vQ9VmMz2w

🔗 https://motioncanvas.io/
🌐 https://github.com/motion-canvas/motion-canvas

#opensource #web #tool #js #videoediting #media #video #editor

Region to Share

A helper application to share only a region of a screen via video conference apps that only support either full screen or single window like e.g. Teams, WebEx, etc.

🌐 https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/region-to-share/9N4066W2R5Q4
🌐 https://github.com/tom-englert/RegionToShare

#opensource #tool #utility #windows #meeting #screen

Turn down for what JS

Turn any website down for what.

🔗 https://nthitz.github.io/turndownforwhatjs/

#aprilfools

Wat

A short, funny lightning talk from 2012 about weird programming language (ruby, javascript) behavior

🔗 https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

#talk #javascript #ruby

exa

exa is a modern replacement for the venerable file-listing command-line program ls that ships with Unix and Linux operating systems, giving it more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary.

🔗 https://the.exa.website
🌐 https://github.com/ogham/exa

#opensource #rust #sysadmin #tool #utility

Dumb Password Rules

With all the current breaches and account compromises, there are still websites with horrible password policies. This site is a compiliation of sites with dumb password rules.

🔗 https://dumbpasswordrules.com
🌐 https://github.com/duffn/dumb-password-rules

#opensource #password #security #web