Upscayl
Sometimes, an image just needs a bit more detail to look good on a page. Upscayl (see the GitHub project here) increases image resolution for the crispness and detail you seek. If you’ve got the right hardware, it’s a good way to enhance digital artwork or add detail to a photograph. Just remember that the AI is pretty much hallucinating these details. That means Upscayl is ideal for enhancing fictional images created by a digital artist, but it’s not as good for images that require absolute accuracy, such as documenting evidence at a crime scene.
Nyro
Developers spend a fair amount of time interacting with the computer’s operating system via the command line. While they are easy to overlook, all those seconds add up. Nyro is an open source project written on top of Electron that handles mundane tasks like taking screenshots, resizing windows, and synchronizing data between applications. Automating everyday tasks like these can save you many small fractions of time, which ultimately adds up to a big productivity boost.
Geppetto
Some development teams do most of their work in Slack channels, so the posts end up being pretty solid first-generation documentation. Geppetto is a Slackbot that connects your channels with several different LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini), which can clean up and enhance your musings. Geppetto will even send a request to Dall-E if you want art to add life to your documentation.
