StackBlitz: online playground

Stackblitz is an online development environment--like jsfiddle.net, codepen.io, and codesandbox.io.

The big plus for StackBlitz is the ability to use VS Code as your editor.

Another nice feature (shared by several others) is the ability to embed your project.

Kind of like this. You can edit the code in the embed and the screen will update.

VS Code Editor

Visual Studio Code aka VSCode or just code once you’ve installed it is the best editor around. 

If you like VIM, it’s got a VIM mode. So there. If you like other key bindings, you’ve got them.

It’s got a ton of plugins, more on which later.

And it’s free. That’s the right price.

And you can use it as your online editor for client applications using stackblitz.com More on that later.

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About glitch

Glitch is my web playground of choice for building full stack node-served web apps. 

You can use glitch project to run a node server and use it to serve your own content.

Glitch is integrated with GitHub so you can move projects easily between the two.

And you can clone your GitHub repository to your development machine and work locally or in the cloud, depending on what's best.

I'm eldrgeek on GitHub and glitch.

You can find my growing list of Glitch projects here.

OneTab--tab cleaner-upper

OneTab is a Chrome plugin that solves a problem that I have: too many open tabs, which leads to both slow performance and distraction.

I get too many open tasks because I tend to leave a trail of open tabs behind me as I research, or task switch. I tell myself that I’ll get around to handling them. But eventually I’ve got a unmanageable clutter. When I get too many tabs, I can use OneTab to close the tabs but not lose track of them.

OneTab keeps a local data structure that it renders as a web page. When I click on the plugin, it adds a new section and in it puts a links to each of the open tabs in my current Chrome window. Then it closes those tabs. If I have a tab that I don’t want closed, I can just drag it out of current window.

My OneTab on this machine has too many files to count. Every other machine that I use has its own OneTab with its own many unhandled tabs.

Now it’s time to clean up some tabs.

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