DEV Community: René Hansen

Listing the contents of a remote ZIP archive with Ruby

René Hansen — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:54:52 +0000

Below is a small Ruby utility function, which takes a url of a ZIP archive and returns the file names of its content.

It will only download just enough data to list the archive content and no more.

The code comments should reveal what the individual steps does, but in case you like a more in-depth look at things, I wrote a blog post here, with accompanying curl commands:

https://rhardih.io/2021/04/listing-the-contents-of-a-remote-zip-archive-without-downloading-the-entire-file.

ekill - nuke annoying page elements

René Hansen — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:13:05 +0000

On most *nix systems running the X Window System, you have a small tool for killing unresponsive windows called xkill:

Basically it works by locating the owning process of the window and forcefull kills it when the window is clicked.

In the spirit of xkill, I've built an open source webextension for Chrome and Firefox that let's you get rid of annoying elements on a web page, simply by clicking on them. Think intrusive cookie popups, chat windows or newsletter prompts.

Here's the web store promo video to see it in action:

Relevant links:
Chrome Web Store
Firefox Add-Ons
GitHub

Cheers!

Giving away some promo codes for my app

René Hansen — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 12:08:58 +0000

If you're on macOS and you need to record some small product demos or similar, Window Recorder might be a tool for you.

I built it because I wanted a recording tool, that provided the same snap-to-window feature of the built in screenshot tool. (Example: https://window-recorder.rhardih.io)

Anyway, it's got a few Premium features through an IAP, and I've got some promo codes I'd like to hand out to anyone interested. Get one here:

https://redeemco.com/p/fke427jert

And redeem it on the app store:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1462766408?pt=120102514&ct=devto&mt=8

Cheers!

Window Recorder for macOS

René Hansen — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 07:55:54 +0000

Quicktime is great for screen recordings on macOS, but only offers fullscreen or, area-set-by-dragging modes for capture.

Window Recorder is intended to provide a similar experience to the built-in screenshot tool, that simply "snaps" to windows, only to capture that exact region.

It's free initially, but will provide a premium upgrade in a forthcoming version.

Here's a landing page, with a link to the mac app store:

https://window-recorder.rhardih.io

Pong - Basic uptime monitoring system

René Hansen — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:18:18 +0000

Pong is a batteries included, dockerized Rails application that is easy to setup and run.

Project page here: https://github.com/rhardih/pong