/bbkane

About Me

Hi, I'm Ben Kane! See my personal website and blog or browse through my projects (active and abandoned) here on GitHub :)

Selected Projects

dotfiles

Configs for apps I care about - see the zsh config especially :)

fling

fling computes and creates/removes the minimal amount of symlinks needed in a directory to refer to files and directories in another directory, similar to GNU Stow. I use fling to manage my dotfiles.

demo.gif

gocolor

A tiny cross-platform cross-platform terminal color library that supports enabling and disabling colors.

screenshot

grabbit

A small single-binary CLI to grab images from Reddit - I've been surprised how much I enjoy seeing beautiful wallpapers when I lock/unlock my computer.

example

logos

Logging + Printing + Compromising

demo

shovel

Make a lot of DNS requests and count the results! Useful for testing complex dynamic DNS records.

demo

starghaze

Save information about your GitHub starred repos into Google Sheets, Zinc, and SQLite!

$ sqlite3 starghaze.db '
SELECT
    l.Name ,
    COUNT(lr.Language_id) as Repo_Count
FROM
    Language_Repo lr JOIN Language l ON lr.Language_id = l.id
GROUP BY Language_id
ORDER BY Repo_Count DESC
LIMIT 10
'
-- Loading resources from /Users/bbkane/.sqliterc
┌────────────┬────────────┐
│    Name    │ Repo_Count │
├────────────┼────────────┤
│ Shell      │ 939        │
│ JavaScript │ 617        │
│ HTML       │ 598        │
│ Python     │ 540        │
│ Makefile   │ 519        │
│ CSS        │ 432        │
│ Dockerfile │ 403        │
│ Go         │ 367        │
│ C          │ 305        │
│ C++        │ 230        │
└────────────┴────────────┘

warg

Declarative and Intuitive Command Line Apps with Go

demo