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Useful Developer Tools #16: Free Userpics Pack

A collection of 100 hand-drawn dummy user profile pictures for your next App Design

Useful Developer Tools #15: ketall

When working with Kubernetes, you will come to a point where you want to list all resources in a cluster or namespace. The kubectl command-line tool has a command for that, but unfortunately it does only list Pods, Services and Deployments. Ketall is a kubectl Plugin, which show really all

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Useful Developer Tools #14: OAuth 2.0 Debugger and Open ID Connect Debugger

I recently watched a fantastic talk by Nate Barbettini about OAuth 2.0 and Open ID Connect on YouTube. Besides explaining what these protocols are, Nate also showed two useful tools he built for Debugging OAuth 2.0 and Open ID Connect. The OAuth 2.0 Debugger and the Open

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Useful Developer Tools #13: unDraw

A collection of hundreds of beautiful handcrafted illustrations from Katerina Limpitsouni for your next website or app. All illustrations are free to use in any kind of project and are hosted under an Open Source license. You can set a custom primary color and download each illustration in multiple formats.

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Useful Developer Tools #12: One Word Domains

Looking for a nice domain for your product or even a product name, that a fancy one word domain is still available for? One Word Domains is a collection of more than 700.000 free domains that consist of only one word. One Word Domains - Database of all available

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Manage all your installed software at one place with Homebrew Bundle

In software development, you often manage all your dependencies through a package manager like NPM or NuGet. When it comes to software on our operating systems, we often break with this concept and install software from all various places. Homebrew Bundle takes back control.

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Useful Developer Tools #11: Port Manager

We've all been there: You fire up a project in your terminal and are interrupted by an obnoxious "EADDRINUSE" message. Well, no more! Port Manager will spare you countless minutes of pointless frustration. Port Manager is a tiny tool for macOS, which lists all currently opened ports and shows the

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Enforcing a consistent Coding Style across projects and programming languages

Coding with style is hard. Especially because it is a very personal and opinionated thing – as always when it comes to style. To not offend anyone in the team but still follow a consistent code format, teams should agree on a consistent set of rules and implement automatic formatters which

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Useful Developer Tools #10: Open folders in Visual Studio Code right from Finder in macOS

If you work with Visual Studio Code on a Mac, you might benefit from an easy way to directly open the current Finder folder in the Editor. While Windows users have an “Open in Visual Studio Code” option in their right-click context menu, macOS users are missing that feature. Sertaç

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Useful Developer Tools #9: Clean and Zip .NET projects from Finder

If you develop .NET projects, particularly in the Xamarin world, you might find yourself cleaning your projects (delete /bin and /obj folders) from time to time by hand. Especially, when you plan to send code to others as a compressed .zip file, you might want to remove those folders beforehand.

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Useful Developer Tools #8: Colormind

A while ago, I wrote about the Adobe Color Wheel here, which helps design noobies to create a color scheme for their product using colors that fit together. The challenge with Color Wheel is, that you still need a “feeling” for colors to create a good looking scheme. Colormind goes

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Useful Developer Tools #7: Spotify playlist "Ambience While Coding"

The new year has just started and many of us still have some holiday to spend time on our beloved coding projects. I personally love listening to some music while coding but especially when it comes to concentration, I find songs with lyrics distracting. Good thing, that Spotify userEmiliy

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Useful Developer Tools #6: App Icons and Resizers

Finding the right icons for your applications can be a tough task. Especially resizing them for the different platforms is super annoying. That is why I would like to share my favorite icon sources and resizing tools with you. Finding icons There are many different icon sources in the web

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Useful Developer Tools #5: Facebook's Device Sketches

When creating mockup images for your product presentations, finding cool device images to put your screenshots in can be challenging. Especially, when you are looking for license free images that can be used commercially. Good thing, that Facebook now opened their device mockups to be downloaded for free. While Facebook

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Useful Developer Tools #4: f.lux

It is no secret, that most developers arenocturnal. That’s why there are many toolsthat makes a coder’s nightlife easier. Dark Mode in IDEs is a good example. But did you know f.lux? This tiny toolmakes the color of your computer’s display adapt to

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Useful Developer Tools #3: Placeit

If you are a software developer and don’t have an own dedicated design department you sometimes have to create these fancy product images by your own. Your Photoshop skills are as weak as mine? No problem, Placeitcan do that for you. Just upload your screenshots to them and

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The 5 best Visual Studio extensions, I can't code without

Visual Studio Marketplace recently hit a major milestone – 1 million page views and 250K unique users! Thecommunity is expanding rapidly, with 740 publishers and 711 public extensions available in the marketplace today.Visual Studio is a great IDE, without doubt – the best one, if you ask me. But as

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Useful Developer Tools #2: Random User Generator

Need some demo data for your mocks? You should try out the Random User Generator that does exactly what you would expect from a tool with this name: It generates a detailed user profile including a picture, address, E-Mail and more. Additionally it comes with an API that you can

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Useful Developer Tools #1: Adobe Color Wheel

Welcome to the first part of our “Useful Developer Tools” series. We would like to present you a set of small tools that makes a developer’s life easier and their results better. Today we want to start with the Adobe Color Wheel. Formerly known as “Adobe Kuler” the color