Scott Jackson.
Software.
I'm primarily a software developer. I put almost everything I write over at my GitHub page, so go there if you want to see everything. This page is mainly a showcase for my favourite things that I've made.
Oh, and all of my software is free to download and use. I explain why at the bottom of this page.
hnsh - Browse and read Hacker News right from the shell.
hnsh lets you check up on Hacker News from the shell. You can browse the stories on the front page of HN, open stories up in your browser, open up comments for each story, and hide stories you've already read, all from your terminal. It's written in Python, so it's cross-platform.
To download hnsh, click here or go to GitHub.
Shortcuts - Quickly see your browser's keyboard shortcuts.
Shortcuts is a bookmarklet that, when clicked on, will bring up an overlay window containing all of our browser's keyboard shortcuts.
Shortcuts is available for Safari and Firefox on Mac OS X and for Firefox on Windows. To install Shortcuts, click and drag the appropriate bookmarklet up to your bookmarks bar:
Mac OS X Users
Windows Users
Throttle - Throttle bandwidth on your Mac.
Throttle is a small Mac OS X application that lets you throttle bandwidth on your Mac.
To download Throttle, click here or go to GitHub.
mdWidget - Quickly find out how something's done in Markdown.
mdWidget is a Mac OS X Dashboard widget that gives you quick access to Markdown's syntax. I love writing in Markdown, but I sometimes forget how to do some things (images always trip me up).
To download mdWidget, click here or go to GitHub.
Psst... this entire page is actually written in Markdown. This is what it looks like when I'm writing it.
TwitterFreq - Graph your tweets to find out when during the day or week you tweet most often.
TwitterFreq is a little Python script that looks at someone's 200 most recent Twitter posts and graphs them by when during the day or week they were written.
To download TwitterFreq, click here or go to GitHub.
Misc.
I've also written a couple of neat little shell scripts and things like that. To check those out, go here.
Why Free?
Here's why my software is free:
- It's not that complex, and I'd feel bad if I was charging people for software as simple as the stuff I've written.
- I wouldn't make much money from it anyway. At this point, my goal is to write great software, get it into people's hands and onto their hard-drives, and get my name around. Experience is the name of the game here, and making people pay to use my software would be a major barrier to that.