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I love the web. The classic, real web full of weird things. And that web is out there. You just have to find it. And sometimes, you have to make it yourself. delphitools is a collection of small, focused utilities that respect your privacy and work entirely in your browser. No data leaves your machine, no accounts required, no tracking. Just tools that do what they say. [by Ruby Morgan Voigt]
posted by chavenet on Apr 15, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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OOOOH, scrolling down past the social media (sigh) tools, booklet imposers and cool shit. Thanks, fellow nerd.
posted by rikschell at 4:45 AM
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Excellent - thanks this is sweet!
posted by Upon Further Review at 5:37 AM
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Note that handmade doesn't mean human made, Claude's in the repo enough for it to have commit attribution.
(May not matter for your uses, I like the spirit of what's presented; but also I figure people interested in that spirit may also want to avoid being surprised)
posted by CrystalDave at 7:23 AM
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Neat tools!
Obviously they used Claude.
I'm not the only person that thinks Claude Code is an indispensable tool on the modern coder's tool belt now.
Still, I get around one email per week asking if and how AI is used in delphitools. The answer I give is always the same: I use it, I think it's useful, I made the tools for myself, and even if I didn't I can't guarantee any of the libraries are free of it either.
Then, is it diminishing the craft of those that chose not to use the coding harness? Again, I don't really believe so. I don't much care how the sausage is made once it's done. If you insist you're better than Claude at coding, that's fine, I believe you. If you see your code as art that a machine can't or shouldn't make, then yes, by all means, power to you. I don't think that applies to delphitools. — I HOPE YOU DON'T USE GENERATIVE AI essay, also linked in FPP
posted by Klipspringer at 7:39 AM
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This may depend on one's setup/plugins/etc., but I can't open the delphitools link in either Firefox or Safari, unfortunately.
posted by the sobsister at 8:11 AM
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Works for me in Firefox 148.0 with uBlock Origin and NoScript installed if NoScript has rmv.fyi set to Trusted.
posted by flabdablet at 8:25 AM
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A similar page I've been keeping in post limbo —
https://kintools.net/
posted by clew at 8:38 AM
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I HOPE YOU DON'T USE GENERATIVE AI essay, also linked in FPP
That's a good read.
posted by rory at 8:56 AM
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It's okay, the read, but somewhat dismissive. It kind of slides over the fact that the bad things the essay recognizes is bad actually make everything else possible that the author uses, and doesn't seem to be sufficiently concerned about the resource costs or the proposed new data centers or the resource costs that are really very important.
Back to the subject. These kinds of tools have analogues in the terminal-based world. The word for terminal tools now is "TUIs," Terminal User Interfaces, a word that is at least a little difficult to Google for because of search static. (Try "TUI tools," not "TUI collection"). I've been compiling information on them and may make a post about them soon.
posted by JHarris at 10:06 AM
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another utterly essential tool is everything, by voidtools. black magic fuckery file search on your desktop, never yell at windows search again.
posted by Sebmojo at 4:59 PM
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Sebmojo: "another utterly essential tool is everything, by voidtools. black magic fuckery file search on your desktop, never yell at windows search again."
I use Everything and it is fantastic. The only issue is that Windows sometimes complains about search indexing being turned off. (I disable it because i don't use it, and Windows' default search indexing is known as a resource hog.) But i happily ignore it!
posted by adrienneleigh at 6:59 PM
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