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Course/movie labeling solution using Firebase and ViolentMonkey

Course/movie labeling solution using Firebase and ViolentMonkey

Category: Tools & Tips Łukasz Nojek

There are pages that do not show information about items you watched, want to watch or don’t want to. May it be a movie database, TV guide, list of online courses, and so on. One such page is Highbrow which, for an unknown reason, has no account feature yet lists a lot of courses. It may be easy to forget which you completed and even harder to find a new course to start.

I’ll show how to create a kind of addon – a GreaseMonkey/ViolentMonkey script that will be run automatically once you enter that page (here: Highbrow) and show the items you marked as completed or todo. That script will connect with a free cloud database Google Firebase to store your list and provide an easy ability to mark every course. Here it is in action:

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Online mind mapping tools

Online mind mapping tools

Category: Tools & Tips Łukasz Nojek

I’ve been using mind mapping tools for years for creating plans or elaborating ideas. So far, my favorite offline software was FreeMind. It hasn’t been updated for years, but it is open source and has impressive features, like formatting nodes, icons, good keyboard support, adding links, colorful clouds for branches, and much more. Just take a look at the screenshot in Wikipedia. Today I decided to look for some online alternative for easier access on any device (also mobile) and simplified sharing.

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My favorite graphing tool – Graphviz

My favorite graphing tool – Graphviz

Category: Tools & Tips Łukasz Nojek

I used to create many graphs, usually the kind of dependency/hierarchy (see the previous post about Programming paradigms in JavaScript).

A long time ago I discovered a perfect tool for a developer to create and maintain various graphs – Graphviz. You can download it and use offline, but there are also online interpreters for quick experiments, for example:

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My favorite bookmarklets

My favorite bookmarklets

Category: Tools & Tips Łukasz Nojek

Bookmarklets are an “ancient” idea to execute custom scripts on arbitrary pages. I haven’t really heard people using it nowadays, but there still seem to be present several interesting scripts to improve browsing. A few years ago I created several scripts to add custom formatting and features to Jira board and issue pages and recently I created an “add-on” to Trello and I discovered some bookmarklets created by others, which I list below.

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Trello Power-Up to hide labels and fields from card covers

Trello Power-Up to hide labels and fields from card covers

Category: Tools & Tips Łukasz Nojek

I had an ingenious idea to show a clutterless view of a Trello board. Sometimes it is beneficial to have an overview of card names without all the details like labels, assignments, photos, dates, custom fields, and so on.

For instance, instead of displaying a board with tens of cards with labels, due dates and custom fields like this:

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Trello – Blogging Editorial Workflow and Calendar

Trello – Blogging Editorial Workflow and Calendar

Category: Tools & Tips Łukasz Nojek

I can’t live without two tools: Excel and Trello. There are some WordPress plugins that help manage the editorial calendar and publishing workflow (CoSchedule at $80 a month, PublishPress at $77 a year), but… they cost a lot!

On the other hand, I don’t say Trello is the best place to keep posts’ workflow, because you have to duplicate some information between WordPress and Trello. In my case, it’s the title, link, basic category and some statuses.

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