Tools on Leon Mika

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:19:36 +1100

🛠️ exe.dev: Persistent VMs via SSH

Managed VMs via SSH. Signed up for this, although I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to use it for.

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 08:49:15 +1100

🛠️ Textarea

A minimalist text editor that lives entirely in your browser and stores everything in the URL hash.

An interesting idea. Gave it a try and it seems to work. There’s more info about it on the Github repo.

Via: Simon Willison

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:14:45 +1100

🛠️ Doom Text Generator

Looks like fun. Giving it a whirl:

Via: Martin Hähnel

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:29:36 +1100

🛠️ Eldiron: Retro RPG Creator

This looks interesting, maybe. I’ve not made an RPG, or indeed played one. Maybe one day I may consider doing either. Until then, maybe someone else will get value from this.

Via: @konstantinosd.bsky.social on Bluesky

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:38:33 +1100

🛠️ komodo: a tool to build and deploy software on many servers

Looks interesting. Putting this on my “if I get bored/frustrated with Coolify” list.

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:59:24 +1100

🛠️ hvm: Hugo Version Manager

I wish this tool didn’t need to exist. I wish Hugo was a bit more rigorous on maintaining backwards compatibility between version. But in this world a tool like this is absolutely necessary. I look forward to trying it out to on some old sites.

Via: Mandaris Moore

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:48:20 +1100

🛠️ DB Fiddle

Web-based sandbox for playing around with databases and SQL. Includes the like of PostgreSQL, making it really useful to try out queries.

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:09:16 +1100

🛠️ TLDraw Obsidian Plugin

Create and embed TLDraw diagrams in an Obsidian note. I have a few nitpicking UX issues with this plugin, but it works, and that’s the main thing. Looks to be a proper embed of TLDraw as it seems to work offline too (at least based on my tests).

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:15:38 +1100

🛠️ Signboard

A kanban app that writes Markdown files by Colin Devroe. Looks interesting. Will take a look when I need a standalone Kanban app.

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:45:05 +1100

🛠️ Glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻

Terminal Markdown viewer. Nice little app. My one criticism is that it should default to opening a file argument in the viewer, rather than just rendering the file to stdout. But otherwise, sure to be a useful little tool.

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:26:31 +1100

🛠️ VisBug

Same ShopTalk show mentioned VisBug which I’ve never heard of before. It’s a Chrome(ium) plugin that has a bunch of layout, colour, and text tools allowing you to view and modify style properties of the elements on a webpage. Could be useful.

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:54:52 +1100

🛠️ CyberChef

A nice website for doing the sort of things one tends to do when writing software. Quite a large suite of tools: JWT decode, Protobuf decode, X.509 cert decode, UNIX epoch conversion, etc. Runs completely within the browser. In fact you can download the HTML+JS and open it locally.

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:46:27 +1100

🛠️ LlamaLab: Automate for Android

Found this app while looking at AntennaPod. Looks similar to Workflows or Shortcuts on Apple products, but for the Android platform. Looks very interesting.

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:14:06 +1100

🛠️ Obsidian Plugin: Daily Notes Editor

Displays all your daily notes in a single editor tab, much like Roam Research. This was a feature I liked about Roam, and when I first looked at Obsidian, I wish it had it. Trying it out on my personal vault, where the daily notes tend to be quite small.

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:04:02 +1100

🛠️ The Death Generator

An online tool for generating images of message screens from retro 90’s games. Quite a selection of classic game message screens. Now, my egotistical side will think it beneath me to use this for posting lame memes here. To that part of me I say…

Via: Robb Knight

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 12:27:45 +1100

🛠️ PocketCal

Nice looking web-app for sharing event dates by Cassidy Williams. Nothing stored server-side: all the event details are encoded in the URL. One of those sites that’s worth keeping in your back pocket for when you need it.

Via: Robb Knight