Non-game software recommendations

[ilzolende]

jpegtran is a command-line tool for losslessly cropping jpegs. I think JPEGclub is not a crazy website to link here. Great for making icons.

ImageWorsener has the fancy dither options you wished GIMP had. There are extra dither modes to be had, if you remember that you run a modern computer with the memory for them.

yt-dlp is a YouTube downloader that can automatically add metadata, grab your preferred resolution, download only audio and not video, et cetera.

itch-dl is useful for downloading games from itch.io, though sometimes you have to pre-decompress a brotli file it might produce.

SvgPathEditor is great for getting into the little details of SVG path strings while still seeing what you're doing.

FanFicFare is a useful downloader that can even handle fiction.live and SpaceBattles.

Infinite Mac is neat for running old software.

trash-cli lets you put things in the trash from the command line, instead of immediately deleting them.

Pandoc does format conversion.

poppler-utils extracts images from PDFs.

pngquant does lossy PNG compression, which is pretty different from lossy JPEG compression and suits different sorts of files.

Qalculate! has a decent command line calculator mode. It sure beats opening up Python and then having to import math.

mpv is better than VLC at handling some video formats, and also supports going backwards one frame at a time, not just forwards.