accumulating random tools that are reinstalled just frequently enough so that all knowledge is forgotten

unbelievably in 2016, exif rotation data is not uniformly followed, so you may need to strip it and transform the image data…
exiftool can be apt installed.

exiftool -all= some.jpg

nice static checker https://github.com/PyCQA/pyflakes

ffmpeg, no avconv, no ffmpeg - actual conversion below from camcorder to mp4

ffmpeg -i 00024.MTS -vcodec mpeg4 -b:v 15M -acodec libmp3lame -b:a 192k aelan.mp4

cling - repl for cpp https://github.com/vgvassilev/cling

byzanz - screencast to animated gif (apt-get)

mosh - limited mobile high latency ssh-like - apt-get single install for server/client

tilda - dropdown console, using it because the version of guake I can get working doesnt support multiple desktops well and building it from github is problematic because of anaconda interactions and the python-vte dependency

silversearcher-ag faster than awk - multi core aware also ignores .gitignore

chrome: adblockplus, vimium h264ify (request youtube in h264 instead of webm which doesn’t have hw accel)

pip stuff

pytest-pudb
py.test –pudb #or in the code

def test_set_trace_integration():
    # No --capture=no need
    import pudb
    pudb.set_trace()
    assert 1 == 2

def test_pudb_b_integration():
    # No --capture=no need
    import pudb.b
    # traceback is set up here
    assert 1 == 2

grip markdown previewer

click - easy commandline interface with help generation

I think I might like plac better, but there’s also
easyargs - very lightweight convenient - decorator, parsing, help gen

pipreqs - generate requirements.txt based on imports

scraperwiki

To save:

pip install –download=/path/to/save -r requirements.txt

And to restore

pip install –no-index –find-links=/path/to/save -r requirements.txt

#nas autoconnect utility gigolo - yeah, that’s what I said…

typecatcher - install google fonts on linux

#investigate:

https://github.com/miracle2k/webassets supports Less, Sass, Coffeescript, …