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Picons | Royalty-Free Vector Icons and Symbols | Download now!

Picons Complete is a bundle offering 2,840 hand-crafted icons across multiple collections (Thin, Basic, BasicColor, Font, and Weather) at a 40% discount with lifetime free upgrades. The icons are designed for consistency across all formats, available as scalable vectors and PNG files, and can be purchased securely via PayPal for use in websites, applications, presentations, and print media.

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sequelpro/sequelpro · GitHub

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Jiko - Full Featured Template Engine for JavaScript

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Mac App Store - Skip Tunes - Spotify, Rdio, and iTunes Controls

Skip Tunes is a Mac menu bar utility that lets you control iTunes/Apple Music and Spotify playback, volume, and track ratings without opening the apps themselves, while also enabling quick sharing to social media and custom keyboard shortcuts. The app has been featured in major tech publications and recently updated to work with Apple Music while maintaining privacy by collecting no user data.

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Spritemapper

Spritemapper is a command-line tool that automatically combines multiple images into a single sprite sheet and generates the corresponding CSS positioning rules, reducing HTTP requests and improving page load times. The tool requires no special CSS syntax—you simply point it at directories of images and it handles the merging and coordinate calculations using an efficient packing algorithm. It has no external dependencies and works across Mac, Linux, and Windows with simple installation via Python's package manager or a Windows installer.

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Chrome Web Store - Clockwork

Clockwork is a browser extension that integrates directly into your developer tools to provide real-time insights into PHP application performance and behavior, displaying request data, database queries, cache operations, log entries, and other runtime metrics without leaving your browser. The tool requires installing a server-side component via Composer and offers first-class support for Laravel applications as well as vanilla PHP setups. The developer does not collect or share user data, and the extension is designed with privacy as a core principle.

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Ghost - Just a blogging platform

Ghost 6.0 is a content platform designed to help publishers and creators build independent media businesses by combining website hosting, newsletter distribution, and membership/subscription tools in one place. The platform emphasizes ownership of audience and revenue without algorithmic dependency, and highlights that publications using it collectively earn over $100 million annually while Ghost takes no payment fees. The release showcases existing successful publications across various niches (from tech newsletters to travel blogs) as proof that creators can build sustainable businesses directly from their audience.

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jQuery Pin

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Keypress: A Javascript library for capturing input

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KnpLabs/snappy · GitHub

Snappy is a PHP wrapper around wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage that generates thumbnails, snapshots, and PDFs from URLs or HTML pages, with framework integrations available for Symfony, Laravel, and Zend Framework. The library requires wkhtmltopdf version 0.12.x and can be installed via Composer. A critical security warning cautions against using the `--enable-local-file-access` option with untrusted content, as it risks exposing local files or enabling remote code execution, and recommends sanitizing input and using sandboxing techniques or alternative tools for unsafe HTML.

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favico.js - Make a use of your favicon

Favico.js is a JavaScript library that adds animated badges and dynamic content to website favicons. It supports various badge animations (slide, fade, pop), customizable colors and positions, and can also convert images, videos, or webcam streams into favicon icons with full configuration options for appearance and behavior.

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PHP DebugBar

PHP DebugBar is a development tool that displays browser-based diagnostics replacing manual var_dump() calls, showing performance metrics, errors, request data, and SQL queries across PHP projects. It integrates with major frameworks like Laravel, Symfony, and Drupal while remaining framework-agnostic through middleware support, and includes built-in collectors for common libraries like PDO, Monolog, and Twig. The tool is strictly for development environments and offers a clean JavaScript interface with the ability to save and replay previous requests.

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Media Query Bookmarklet | Sparkbox

A developer describes a bookmarklet tool designed to display the current viewport dimensions and identify which CSS media queries are active on a webpage in real time, eliminating the need to manually resize browsers during responsive design work. The tool parses a page's CSS files, extracts media query declarations, and uses the matchMedia API to trigger notifications whenever media queries change, making it easier to understand which breakpoints are firing. The bookmarklet supports Chrome 9+, Safari 5.1.5, and iOS 5.1.1, with features including duplicate query removal, a close button, and the ability to toggle the display between the left and right sides of the screen.

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