Useful and/or interesting links for research/productivity/fun.
20240221
Tabby
Super customizable, cross-platform termial app.
Warp
Rust-based terminal with AI.
20230323
Expressions
App with (pretty) live preview of regular expressions.
20220302
DeckDeckGo
Interactive, web-based presentations. h/t
20211025
20210924
Rectangle
Window management based on Spectacle.
20210208
Camo
Use your phone as a webcam. h/t
20210208
Beeper
A single app to unite all your messaging apps. h/t
20210126
ggpomological
ggplot2 theme based upon the USDA’s pomological watercolor collection.
20210122
disk.frame
R package that allows you to treat on-disk data as though it were in-memory (i.e., use data.table or tidyverse). Bonus blog from Bruno Rodrigues.
20210121
ASCII Decorator
Sublime plugin for ASCII Decorations.
Machine learning flashcards
Flashcards for ML concepts.
lazyrmd
Lazy rendering of rmd.
20201215
xaringanExtra
Extra skills for the R package xaringan.
xaringanthemer
More themes for xaringan.
20201005
voice dream apps
- reader reads anything aloud (200+ voices in 30 languages).
- writer helps you proofread out loud.
- scanner is for text recognition of scans.
Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer
Data platform with accurate, up-to-date, high-resolution geospatial data depicting the extent freshwater ecosystems change over time.
20200915
Synergy
Control multiple computers with a single keyboard/mouse.
Book: Dive into Deep Learning Online deep learning book.
Apache Arrow for R
R package for Apache Arrow in-memory platform. h/t
Wizard Zines Collection
Programming zines. h/t
20200915
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Online book with practical advice on typography.
20200915
tweek
Online weekly planner. h/t
20200914
Mail Merge for Thunderbird
A mail merge extension for Thunderbird.
20200820
Compiled ESS point datasets
Compendium of compiled Earth System Science point data sets.
20200409
Stack
Browser built for multi-tasking. h/t
20200409
codetime
Text-editor plugin for coding metrics and timing. h/t
descript
Record and edit audio as a transcript. h/t
Hypothesis
Annotate the web—and share it. h/t
Online conference options
There’s more for things bigger than Zoom:
20200210
Old Book Illustrations
A compendium of illustrations from “old books”.
radian
An alternative console for R with multiline editing and rich syntax highlight. h/t
20200106
learnr
R package to create Markdown-based, interactive tutorials.
20191224
Convertio
File conversion across 300+ formats.
20191219
Arcane Office
In-cloud, private/secure/de-centralized, free office suite.
Crosstalk
Cross-widget interactions in R.
panelView
R package for visualizing treatment, missing-ness, and outcomes in panel data.
speaking.io
Public-speaking tips. h/t
Standard ebooks
Curated, high-quality, free ebooks.
20191203
cally
Find common dates/locations for group events. h/t
Gantt.io
Easy, pretty, online Gantt charts. h/t
20190923
devhints
A collection of cheatseets, e.g., bash, regex and vim.
20190923
jQuery cheatsheet
Cheatseet for jQuery.
20190821
blastula
Send beautiful HTML emails from R.
20190717
Really Good Emails
Currated collection of beautiful, well-crafted emails. h/t
tresorit
Secure cloud storage. h/t
20190717
In-Browser Markdown Editors
- HackMD - StackEdit - Madoko
20190715
Noted
Integrated audio-recording and note-taking app.
20190702
Twizzy
Simple, clean flowchart tool. h/t
20190620
Twizzy
Twitter without the timeline (just message and tweet). h/t
20190326
rticle
LaTeX journal article templates for R Markdown.
20190326
Makepad
(Online) project management for single users—no team features.
20190319
Firefox Send
Send files up to 2.5GB (1GB without signing in). h/t
TAYL
Turn text articles into podcasts. h/t
Workbench
Code-free data sharing and analysis platform.
20190219
Marvin
“Ultimate” productivity tool. h/t
20190131
Buttondown
Simple, online, markdown-based newsletter app.
20190115
Background Music
Audio utility to automatically pause music and/or mute specific applications.
20181221
drake
R package for workflow management of data-driven tasks.
fontawesome package
LaTeX package to access Font Awesome icons.
20181207
NES.css
NES-style CSS Framework.
rayshader
R package for producing 2D and 3D hillshaded maps of elevation matrices. h/t
20181205
iotools
R package for streaming and data parsing.
20181128
pqR
A “pretty quick” version of R. h/t
20181127
cloudyr
A collection of R packages that connect R to cloud resources.
20181120
fst
Fast and easy serialization of data frames in R (and Julia).
RStudio Server Amazon Machine Images
Louis Aslett provides a tremendous public service in hosting and updating (and providing basic instructions for) RStudio/R machine images for Amazon.
20181015
Spaceship Prompt
Minimalistic and flexible Zsh prompt.
trminal
Quickly opens a Mac Terminal (or iTerm 2) window for the current Finder directory. Akin to Go2Shell but with more frequent/recent updates.
20181008
ColorBox
Custom color-scale builder. h/t
latex2exp
R package that converts LaTeX expressions to (annoying) plotmath.
20181002
Superhuman
Very fast email client (based on what they say). h/t
20180928
What If
Tool for inspecting machine-learning models.
20180925
GeoDa
Free, open-source geospatial software.
iTerm2 borderless
A nice patch for iTerm2 that creates a more minimal aesthetic for iTerm2.
kitty
GPU-based terminal emulator.
20180911
Rbox
R package to run R in Atom.
20180831
RMarkdown presentation by Yihui Xie
A presentation by Yihui Xie on bookdown, blogdown, and xaringan. There are many more presentations available by Yihui Xie.
20180830
hey-pane
Atom extension for enlarging the active panel (includes keyboard shortcut).
typing.io
Typing practice for many programming languages.
20180815
DeclareDesign
Declaring and analyzing research designs in the social sciences. h/t
R for Data Science
Online book about R for Data Science by Garrett Grolemund and Haldey Wickham.
20180718
Biblatex Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet for Biblatex.
Writing tools for Atom
linter-write-good lints English prose. Linter Just Say No helps you avoid using hedge words.
20180718
Bib-it
Compendium of BibTeX entry and field types.
Culture Concorde
Simple menu-bar curated-music player. h/t
Dotgrid
“Minimal vector drawing tool”. h/t
20180524
UberConference
Great, feature-rich meeting platform.
20180516
Figure it Out
Pretty Chrome extension (and website) to figure out time zones.
grasshopper
Free app that teaches coding.
txt.fyi
“This is the dumbest publishing platform on the web.” h/t
20180510
Gradescope
Grading web service with really nice grading/rubric setup.
20180430
ScreenFocus
Auto-dim (and auto-un-dim) when working with multiple monitors. h/t
20180426
Clocker
OSX app to plan and organize through timezones.
imdone
Atom package that provides a card- and list-based user interface for TODOs in your scripts.
themer
Generates color themes given a set of colors.
20180419
binder
Turns a GitHub repo into a collection of interactive notebooks. h/t
20180410
Gnotes
Simple markdown to Evernote. Somewhat like Marxico.
gsynth
R package for generalized synthetic control methods.
20180406
SuperLearner
R package for a prediction-model ensembling method.
20180403
Beautiful AI
AI-powered presentations.
20180329
Academic Sequitur
A website that tracks over 90 major economics and finance journals.
20180320
Teletype for Atom
An Atom package to collaborate in real time.
20180315
AppleHealthAnalysis
An R package to import and analyze data from the iOS Apple Health app.
20180301
regex-railroad-diagram package
A regular expression railroad diagram view for regular expression under cursor in Atom.
20180301
Things 3
Personal task manager. I’m switching from OmniFocus.
Workflow
Automation tool for iOS.
20180213
hiri
Clean, powerful email/calendar/task/contact app.
20180202
XML Sitemaps
Simple tool for creating XML sitemaps (along with other formats).
20180129
Viridis in QGIS
Viridis color palettes (ramps) for QGIS.
20180115
LittleSnitch
View and manage internet connections from your Mac. (Also: MicroSnitch)
SwiftText
Quick-access scratchpad for OSX.
ggthemr
Themes and palettes for ggplot2.
20171227
Typely
Free online proofreading.
20171130
Resistbot
A bot who finds and contacts your Congressional representatives.
20171129
Text Mining with R
An introduction to (tidy) text mining in R.
20171122
sf
Stellar package for spatial data analysis in R. More sf resources: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
20171115
Cheat sheets for regular expressions
The folks at RStudio provides cheat sheets for regular expressions and stringr (and many other cheat sheets).
20171107
Author
App to instantly create and publish documents to the web.
20171030
ggforce
A package for R that aims to extend ggplot2 for explorative data visualization.
ggplot2 extensions
A helpful website that tracks extensions to R’s ggplot2 package.
20171018
3Blue1Brown
A YouTube channel that animates math.
20171014
GitFinder
A fast and lightweight Git client for Mac with Finder integration.
20171010
Drop
Beautiful color picker with Touch Bar support.
Index
Save and search your “stuff”.
Qbserve
Automatically tracks both productivity and work hours. h/t
TripMode
Blocks apps from accessing the internet. h/t
Tyke
Scratch paper that lives in your menubar. h/t
20171003
Pod
A “connected” calendar for iOS. h/t
20170927
Tabagotchi
Fun browser extension that incentives fewer tabs.
20170831
Crime Data
The FBI has a great new crime data explorer. The Open Data Census project has a handy(-ish) summary of city-level crime datasets.
Plain Email
Four-action email-processing app.
Rambox
Cross-platform messaging and emailing app.
ScienceFair
Search, collect, read and analyze scientific papers.
20170828
earth
A (beautiful) global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions.
20170825
Free, open-source machine learning, statistics, and data-mining resources
A curated list of resources from Joseph Misiti.
Template for R Markdown academic manuscript
Steven Miller offers a guide and template for academic manuscripts in R Markdown.
20170824
Regular expressions in R
stringr’s very helpful primer on regular expressions in R.
20170807
Gifmock
Creates high-quality GIFs.
twist
A calmer Slack alternative.
20170806
Hemingway
App that improves your writing.
20170804
rmapshaper
R package for “topologically-aware multi-polygon simplification” (for shapefiles). Related: mapshaper.org
20170803
Manually re-index OSX Spotlight
A helpful guide. Hint: It’s really just sudo mdutil -E /.
20170727
Colibri
A browser without tabs.
20170722
everydayCheck
A simple, pretty habit tracker. h/t
Orai
AI-powered feedback for your speeches. h/t
20170713
Velox
Fast raster manipulation in R.
20170608
Tabulizer
Extract tables from PDFs using R.
20170606
10 Minute Mail
Disposable email service.
20170531
Windscribe
VPN with a generous free allowance.
20170528
SplitShow
Tool for dual-head presentations on OSX.
20170526
Two apps from Matthew Palmer:
Rocket
Mind-blowing (Slack-style) emoji on your Mac.
Vanilla
Hides menu bar icons on your Mac. h/t
20170522
Material Colors
A convenient website for accessing the colors of the material design palette.
20170516
Astro
Email app(s) powered by AI. h/t
sip
Collects, organizes, and shares colors (and palettes). h/t
20170515
rJava error
A very helpful guide to fixing errors with rJava on OSX.
20170507
TextExpander
Expands custom keyboard shortcuts into frequently-used text and pictures.
20170430
kobra
Simple, real-time, code collaboration.
20170426
leaflet
Access Leaflet’s JavaScript library inside of R.
pacman
An R package for easy package management in R—loading, unloading, etc.
20170414
Popular economics papers
Oxford University Press provides a list of the most popular economics papers from The Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) and The Review of Economics Studies (REStud).
20170410
Unpaywall
Read paywalled research papers for free.
20170406
VPN
In addition to having great names, CyberGhost and TunnelBear provide VPN services. Both services offer free options.
20170331
LaTeX, meet ggplot2
Port images out out of R and into LaTeX. h/t
20170329
Comparing text files
Diffchecker and Text Compare! offer in-browser comparisons between text documents. In Atom, split-diff and compare-files offer between-document comparisons.
20170324
asciicinema
asciinema (formerly ascii.io) is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web.
Markdown online
Dillinger, StackEdit, and Markdown Live Preview offer three online Markdown editors/renderers. remark, Marp, swipe, and Deckset offer options for rendering Markdown into presentation slides (also, Rmarkdown with ioslides).
20170312
FocusList
A daily planner and focus app based on Pomodoro. h/t
Giphy Capture
Create GIFs on your Mac. Other options: Gifox, Recordit, and Gyazo.
20170227
pander
An R Pandoc writer—for rendering R objects into Pandoc’s markdown.
20170209
Typora
A live and minimal Markdown editor.
20170206
GGally
Extends R’s ggplot2 with many helpful graphical functions.
20170123
LightTable
Open-source text editor with in-line code evaluation.
20170123
Redkix
Reat-time email app.
Typeform
Clean, online forms.
20170123
Codr
A lightweight, collaborative pastebin (whiteboard) for code.
SageMathCloud
Collaboratively use open source math software/terminals in your browser.
SubEthaEdit (4)
Collaborative text editing.
20170116
Mac Setup
Helpful guide for setting up a Mac for most popular languages and programming/scripting tools.
20170115
Studies
Flash cards for iOS and OSX.
20170112
Noizio
White-noise generating app for OSX.
WeTransfer
Sends files.
20170111
Due
Fast to-do list app with reminders.
Exist
Track everything you do in one place.
20170109
Tomatimer
A loose and straightforward pomodoro timer for Atom.
20170105
Markdown Quick Look Plugin
Preview Markdown files in OSX Finder (through the Preview app). From the makers of the iPad Markdown text editor InkMark.
20170101
Read the Docs
Create, host, and browse documentation.
20161230
Cloudinary
Image and video management in the cloud.
20161228
Spark
A fast, personalizable email client.
20161227
PostImage
Free image hosting and upload.
Small Victories
Takes files in a Dropbox folder and turns them into a website.
20161222
TinyLetter
A free personal newsletter service.
20161219
Pandas Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet for data science with Python’s Pandas.
20161215
MapInSeconds.com
Quickly turns spreadsheets into maps. h/t
20161208
R Markdown Websites
A tutorial on building a website using R Markdown (like this one). h/t The rmdformats package offers additional themes (formats). More on R Markdown here. The bookdown package extends R Markdown to publishing books. The blogdown package extends R Markdown to publishing blogs (or general websites) using Hugo. The pkgdown package extends R Markdown to creating static html documentation.
20161205
Divvy
Provides customized window management.
BetterTouchTool
Configure gestures for OSX.
20161121
Selector Gadget
Point-and-click CSS selectors. Helpful when used in conjunction with R’s rvest package.
20161118
Vivaldi
A highly customizable browser.
20161115
GitKraken
A GUI Git client, for Windows, Mac and Linux.
20161107
Calendly
Simple, beautiful scheduling.
20161106
Bear
A flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.
OLS Notes
Some nice notes on ordinary least squares from Michael Rosenfeld at Stanford.
Shodan
Search engine for internet of things (and other things).
20161031
Facking Operator Mono Font in AtomA guide to building a font system in Atom similar to Operator Mono.
20161028
Pomodoro Time and Tadam
Pomodoro Time and Tadam are simple Pomodoro timers.
20161019
Thenmap
A repository of historical borders.
20161007
Geocodio
(Reasonably) accurate, affordable, and unrestricted online geocoding (forward/reverse and batch/API). Connect with R through rgeocodio.
20161006
Canary Mail
A “simple, smart, swift” email client for Mac with many nice features.
20161004
Github Pages and Jekyll tutorial
From UC Berkeley’s The Hacker Within, a nice tutorial on Github Pages and Jekyll.
pdftools
A fast and portable PDF extractor for R (and others).
20161003
Producteev
Team-oriented productivity software.
20160930
Ghost Browser
A browser that lets you isolate cookie jars into color coded tabs so you can run multiple sessions with multiple accounts on the same web site.
Hocus Focus
Automatically hide inactive windows.
Noisli
In-browser white-noise generator with productivity and relax settings.
Standard Resume
One resume that works everywhere.
20160928
Univariate Distribution Relationships
Interactive chart for relationships between univariate distributions.
20160926
Opentest
Seamless screen, mic and camera recording for Chrome.
20160919
Habitica
Improve your habits by playing a game.
20160906
Linus screen
Screen effectively allows signing on and off from interactive sessions on a server/Linux shell.
20160822
REVEAL.JSJavascript-backed HTML presentation framework.
20160813
QuickLookR
OSX-based QuickLook plugin for R’s save() & saveRDS() files. h/t
20160811
Multi-File LaTeX projects
ShareLaTeX’s guide to building LaTeX documents from multiple files.
SMS Email
Combine R’s sendmailR with this list of SMS email addresses to send text messages from R.
Stargazer Cheatsheet
A cheatsheet for R’s stargazer package.
20160810
YakYak
Desktop chat client for Google Hangouts.
20160804
Script
Run scripts in Atom based on file name, a selection of code, or by line number.
Term2
Open Terminal tabs in Atom. In the past, I’ve also used Terminal Plus.
20160801
SizeUp
Keyboard-centric window management. h/t
20160722
munsell
Package in R for for Munsell’s color theme.
20160714
ggalt
Extra coordinate systems, geoms, statistical transformations, and scales for R’s ggplot2 package.
ggthemes
Some extra geoms, scales, and themes for R’s ggplot package package.
20160710
Boxy
A Gmail Inbox client for Mac.
SurfEasy
Data protection.
20160708
Color Oracle
A color blindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux.
20160706
OSX option-key bindings
A helpful superuser post about removing the character bindings for the option (alt) key in OSX.
20160702
extrafont
R package to use other (any?) fonts in R. h/t
20160701
R guides
Computerworld offers a beginner’s guide to R, as well as an advanced beginner’s guide to R. h/t
20160624
Grammerly
In-browswer and in-app grammar and spelling checker.
Markdown Here
In-browser Markdown formatting for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Thunderbird.
20160620
SAS Studio
Web application for SAS that you access through your web browser.
ShiftIt
Manages and position windows in OSX.
20160609
BarTender (2)
Organizes your menu bar apps.
20160510
MailButler
Your personal assistant for Apple Mail. h/t
Automatically hides or quits apps after periods of inactivity. h/t
Xi Editor
A modern editor with a backend written in Rust. h/t
20160504
conda and OSX
Run PATH=$PATH:$HOME/anaconda/bin if OSX cannot find the path to conda.
Rodeo
A data science IDE for Python.
20150424
Micro
Terminal-based text editor. h/t
Min
A minimal web browser. h/t
20160418
tep
Tamagotchi-based motivating fitness tracker.
20160409
CodeFights
Practice coding in real-time races against others.
Font Awesome
The iconic font and CSS toolkit.
20160408
Karabiner
A powerful and stable keyboard customizer for OS X.
Timer
A simple timer app for OSX. h/t
20160404
ProtonMail
Secure email based in Switzerland.
20160331
CSS DinerA little game to help you learn CSS selectors.
Lightning
Provides API-based access to reproducible web visualizations.
20160325
DiagrammeR
Package to create graph diagrams and flowcharts using R.
R Markdown Websites
Basics from the R Markdown website. Blog on blogs using Jekyll and R Markdown. Example website
20160315
Pandas Resources
UC Berkeley’s The Hacker Within notes on Python Pandas.
20160313
JuliaDT
An Eclipsed-based IDE for Julia.
20160311
Rough Draft
A writing app that offers the natural rough reminders of paper.
20160310
regular expressions 101
Live testing and help for regular expressions.
20160301
Castle Adventure
Online emulator for 1984’s DOS game Castle Adventure.
20160224
LaTeX Dendrogram
A simple dendrogram example for LaTeX.
NYT Weather Charts
The New York Times’s classic weather charts for more than 3000 cities.
pmax/pmin in R
Take max. and min. with vector inputs in R.
Backpropogation Example
A step-by-step example of backpropogation.
20160223
Billion Dollar Prices Project
MIT’s project to track prices via online retailers.
markdown-toc
Generate a table of contents for a Markdown file in Atom.
tablr
Edit CSVs using a table editor in Atom.
20160209
Julia Resources
A guid to help you learn Julia in Y minutes. Slides on Julia for R programmers.
Learn X in Y minutes
Guides for learning things quickly.
20160208
.gitignore
StackOverflow explanation on how to “[i]gnore files that have already been committed to a Git repository.”
Pandoc
A universal document converter.
20160204
wmail
OSX App for Google Inbox and Gmail.
20160203
Python Resources
Jean Mark Gawron’s book Python for Social Sciences; O’Reilly’s book on how to think like a computer scientist, Think Python; a list of resources from Python at Berkeley; slides teaching Python for R Users.
20160201
Fira Code
Monospaced font with programming ligatures.
20160131
White Noise & Co.
Frequency shaped colored noise generator.
20160130
Flowstate
A writing app with strong incentives to keep moving.
20160126
Katex
A fast math typesetting library for the web.
20160121
Butterfly
A browser-based terminal.
A basic guide to UNIX from Berkeley’s I school.
20160112
GitBook
A modern publishing toolchain.
20160111
Online LaTeX Editors
Papeeria, ShareLaTeX, Overleaf, and Authorea each offer online LaTeX editing, compiling, and collaboration.
uiGradients
Simple and attractive color gradients.
20160107
.Last.value.
.Last.value displays the last value at the command line in R.
20151223
Copied
Clipboard manager for OSX and iOS.
Deckset
Slides from Markdown files.
LaTeX Boilerplates
Plain-text document production system.
Command-line accress to Google and Amazon cloud storage.
20151216
Caret
A simple Markdown editor and previewer h/t.
Jango
Browser-based streaming radio—essentially Pandora but with only one advertisement each day.
20151213
CleanMyMac
Clean up files on a Mac.
A browser-based IDE for R.
20151201
pryr
Another package from Hadley Wickham; this one helps to pry back R’s layers. I’m using it for mem_used() and object_size().
data.table and .SD
.SD allows you easily choose many columns from a data.table in R. h/t (plus a more transparent demo)
20151130
CodinGame
Learn/practice coding while playing games.
20151117
LaunchBar (6)
LaunchBar adds actions to OSX’s keyboard commands.
R style
More from Hadley Wickham: his R style guide from his book Advanced R.
20151110
bigvis
Hadley Wickham strikes again: bigvis helps visualize large (big) data sets.
20151104
Freeze
OSX app to access Amazon Glacier archives. h/t
Spectacle
Move and resize windows for OSX.
xombrero
Minimalist, high-security browser. h/t
20151102
Forecast.io API
JSON API for Dark Sky/Forecast.io weather forecasts and history.
20151029
OpenStreetMap tools
Mapzen metro extracts offer weekly OpenStreetMap extracts for major metro areas. overpass turbo allows you to query the OSM API.
20151029
JuliaBox
Run Julia from the browser.
20151028
Mapzen
An open-source mapping lab.
Sublime Text 3 in terminal (OSX)
A stackoverflow thread on how to create a symbolic link for Sublime Text in the OSX terminal.
20151027
knitr::kable
kable is a function in R’s knittr package that creates formatted tables (Markdown, LaTeX, etc.) from data.frames within R. Seems like it would pair perfectly with broom’s tidy function.
20151025
Github Pages + Jekyll = Blog
A streamlined tutorial on setting up a blog with Github Pages with Jekyll.
20151023
Prose
A clean editor for Github.
20151022
csvkit
A handy suite of .csv operations for the terminal. Includes Excel-to-CSV conversion. h/t
gimli
Convert markup files to pdf files.
Photo Gallery Options
thumbsup builds static HTML galleries for local photos and videos. Expose generates static sites for photoessays.
20151021
import.io
Turns websites into data.
Sublime Text and File Browsing
FileBrowser creates an extra panel for keyboard browsing files in Sublime Text; File Navigator allows basic navigation and file management through a Sublime terminal.
20151020
Speedfari
Browser for iOS that blocks unnecessary parts of websites. h/t
20151014
OSX Terminal Themes
A set of terminal themes for OSX.
20151013
StackEdit
A really nice in-browser Markdown editor that allows for themes, hotkeys, simultaneous collaboration, and publishing straight to blogs.
20151010
Scotch on Jekyll
A nice tutorial on Jekyll (publishing blogs/websites).
oh my zsh
Framework for managing ZSH configuration.
20151009
Go2Shell
Creates a shortcut in OSX’s Finder to open a Terminal window.
iTerm2
An alternative terminal for OSX.
regexr.com
Live testing of regular expressions.
20151008
Colorout
Color your R output in the terminal.
2015107
Git Large File Storage
An open source Git extension for versioning large files.
R and AWS
Tutorials for running R and RStudio with Amazon’s web services.
20151001
Personal R Packages
A nice guide to building your own R package.
20150928
Git Guide
A pretty simple guide to Git.
20150925
Syncer
A fast file/disk syncer.
20150924
Classroom Resources
Some resources from CodeAcademy and GitHub for the classroom.
Dictater
Replacement for built-in Speech services.
Git Large File Store
Open-source versioning for large files.
20150923
Git Tutorials
“Git in five minutes” (I think it took me a bit longer). And a very clear description of how to add an existing project to GitHub using Git in the command line.
20150922
Jaro Mail
Private, terminal-based email. h/t
20150921
Squire
An HTML5 rich text editor that works across browsers and generations.
20150914
Etherpad
Online, collaborative text editing.
Madoko
A fast Markdown processor that makes presentations, documents, html, etc. h/t
VoiceCode
Softward that promises to allow you to code via spoke word.
20150910
Learning to git
Illustrated examples and a (supposedly) 15-minute game.
Spyfall
A popular party game; an independent online version; an English rulebook.
20150909
Prism
Code highlighting via JavaScript. Apparently, Prism is a spin-off of dabblet.
Email from R
The mail package in R allows you to send an email(see the sendmail function)—very helpful for letting you know when a task finishes running.
20150907
Evernote in Sublime Text
Submit and edit notes in Evernote from Sublime Text (also allows for Markdown).
Pygments
Code highlighting for many applications.
20150906
Arranger
Arranges application windows (or Finder windows) for OSX.
Coda
A text editor targeting web applications.
Codeanywhere
A code editor accessible in your browser or on mobile devices. Features include ssh and multiple cursors.
20150905
Symbolset
Sells sets of icons.
20150905
Noun Project
An app with a compendium of icons. h/t to John Loeser
Thimble
An online code editor from Mozilla (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript plus tutorials).
20150903
Next
A simple expense-tracking app.
Reading Lists
Bill Easterly’s development economics reading list. h/t Sol Hsiang’s sustainable development reading list. And Sol’s syllabus/reading list for his summer workshop in the economics of climate change.
20150902
JavaScript in R
The R package V8 allows you to access JavaScript functions from R. An example with parsing human names.
Languages for GFM
A handy list of all the languages known to GitHub Flavored Markdown.
20150901
Drought Reports
EcoWest created a great interactive map for US drought severity. h/t
Hosting Websites with Dropbox
Pancake.io offers help in hosting a website via Dropbox (or git). So does DropPages.
Create pixel maps of anywhere in the world.
Random Google Maps
Shaun Utter wrote some code to grab a random Google Map and colors it. Pretty.
Scraping with R (+ Rasters)
Zev Ross shows how to scrape using the R package rvest. Zev also has two nice tutorials on working with rasters in R (1 and 2).
Tyme
A time-management app with a timer and a project management system.
20150831
Color BlenderBlends two colors.
DaisyDisk
Beautiful OSX app for analyzing memory allocation on your hard drive (and recovering space).
Email Clients for OSX
I just came across Kiwi—a gmail-as-desktop-client app for Mac. I’m currently alternating between Inbox in-browser and Mailbox. I previously used Airmail and played with Unibox.
Hours
Another way to track your time. Only for iOS at the moment.
Itsycal
A nice, little calendar for the OSX menu bar—also keyboard friendly. h/t
R Packages for Open Science
A set of R packages for open science.
Search R’s Documentation
An online search engine for R’s documentation.
Time Sink
Time everything you do on your computer. Could be scary.
20150830
Alternote
A pretty note-taking app for Evernote (OSX).
Ello
An alternative social network site. (Say the name aloud and think “British.”)
Motion in Social
Pretty cool research on motion… and perhaps and even cooler portrayal.
MultiMarkdown Syntax Guide
Guide for setting up metadata for Markdown. A lot of other stuff, too.
NUMI
A simple, beautiful, and versatile calculator for OSX. h/t
Tufte in R and CSS
People applying Tufte’s principles in R and in CSS.
LONG AGO
Cleaner Web Viewing
Evernote Clearly cleans up web pages—particularly useful for blogs with lots of ads. Wikiwand cleans up Wikipedia pages automatically.
Feedly
Magazine-style (news reader)[https://feedly.com].
Flashearth
View Earth using many satellite options. A great time sink. Related: Earth View from Google Chrome extension.
Marked 2
Very simple Markdown (or plain text) viewer. Works with many editors.
Mendeley
Reference manager and PDF organizer.
pyFuture?
galvanize offers a list of tools for Python and data.
Skitch
Skitch takes nice screen shots.
Sublime Text
My favorite second-favorite text editor (supports everything). Multiple cursors make life easier. I’ve since moved to Atom.
Transmit
Terrific SFTP-FTP-S3 client for OSX.
To-Do Lists
I now use Todoist Swipes OmniFocus Things (3). In the past, I played with Wunderlist and Swipes and Todoist and TeuxDeux and Any.Do.
Toggl
Track your time.