jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.
jq is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. You can download a single binary, scp it to a far away machine, and expect it to work.
jq can mangle the data format that you have into the one that you want with very little effort, and the program to do so is often shorter and simpler than you’d expect.
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postcss/postcss
https://github.com/postcss/postcss, posted 2015 by peter in conversion css development free software webdesign
PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JS plugins. The growing ecosystem of PostCSS plugins can add vendor prefixes, support variables and mixins, transpile future CSS syntax, inline images, and more.
PostCSS is used by Google, Twitter, Alibaba, and Shopify. Its most popular plugin, Autoprefixer, is one of the most universally praised CSS processors available.
PostCSS can do the same work as preprocessors like Sass, Less, and Stylus. But PostCSS is modular, 4-40x faster, and much more powerful.
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Converting a Subversion repository to Git, (7 steps to migrate a complete mirror of svn in git) | JohnAlbin
john.albin.net/git/convert-subversion-to-git, posted 2015 by peter in conversion git howto reference versioncontrol
Supposedly, git-svn can also be used to convert a Subversion repo to Git. Unfortunately, after reading the git-svn docs carefully and several useful resources (like the slightly-obscure Git FAQ, the Git Community Book, Paul Dowman’s blog and Alexis Midon’s blog), it became apparent that all the resources are piecemeal and nothing gives you the BIG HONKIN’ PICTURE. So here it is, ponies and all…
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DRY-ing Out Your Sass Mixins · An A List Apart Article
alistapart.com/article/dry-ing-out-your-sass-mixins, posted 2014 by peter in conversion css development howto toread webdesign
One of the most powerful features of the CSS preprocessor Sass is the mixin, an abstraction of a common pattern into a semantic and reusable chunk. Think of taking the styles for a button and, instead of needing to remember what all of the properties are, having a selector include the styles for the button instead. The button styles are maintained in a single place, making them easy to update and keep consistent.
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Generating Handwritten Text with Neural Networks
www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.cgi, posted 2013 by peter in conversion graphics online typography
Type a message into the text box, and the network will try to write it out longhand (this paper explains how it works). Be patient, it can take a while!
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translate.google.com/toolkit, posted 2013 by peter in conversion free language nlp online
Google Translator Toolkit is a powerful and easy-to-use editor that helps translators work faster and better.
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IcoMoon App - Icon Font Generator
icomoon.io/app/, posted 2013 by peter in conversion online typography webdesign
Browse and select icons to download them or make a font. You may import SVG images or fonts too.
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Announcing MoSQL
https://stripe.com/blog/announcing-mosql, posted 2013 by peter in conversion database free nosql opensource replication software sql
Today, we are releasing MoSQL, a tool Stripe developed for live-replicating data from a MongoDB database into a PostgreSQL database. With MoSQL, you can run applications against a MongoDB database, but also maintain a live-updated mirror of your data in PostgreSQL, ready for querying with the full power of SQL.
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Gizoogle - Tranzizzler
www.gizoogle.net/tranzizzle.php, posted 2013 by peter in conversion humor language online
Gizoogle was originally created by John Beatty, who started the site in 2005 as a joke after inspiration from a friend's constant use of the slang on America Online's Instant Messenger service and also by Snoop's "Doggy Fizzle Televizzle" program on MTV.
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This website is only intended for mature audiences farmiliar with the slanguage used by Snoop Dogg, and anybody under the age of 13 should not visit this website without adult supervision.
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JSON Editor Online - view, edit and format JSON online
jsoneditoronline.org/, posted 2013 by peter in conversion development editor javascript online
Some server or program spat out an ugly clump of unformatted and unreadable JSON? Paste it here, pretty-print it, browse it, edit it. Could be useful.