Apps

Mandrill

Every developer has been there. You clone a repo, open the README.md, and stare at a wall of raw Markdown syntax instead of the formatted document the author intended. So you open VS Code, install a preview extension, and wait. Or you push it to GitHub just to read it. Or you squint and mentally parse the asterisks yourself.

None of those are good answers. That frustration is exactly why I built Mandrill.

Mandrill is a native macOS application. Drag a file onto it, or open one from the file picker, and your Markdown is rendered instantly; headings, code blocks, tables, task lists, and all. No setup wizard. No account. No cloud sync. The file never leaves your machine.

LearTheFlags for the iPhone

I set out to learn SwiftUI and also teach my son flags and capitals of the countries of the world. More about my journey into building this app on my blog.

Special thanks to Yohan Desai, Vijay Marolia and Karthik K for the motivaiton to build this app.

Learn the Flags is a simple app that helps you associate a country with its flag and learn some basic demographics about it like Capital, Continent it belongs to or how many neighbors it has and some more.

cURLTester

A simple cURL config file that allows you to get response headers and timing metrics in some well formatted and readable manner.

Download the file from GitHub.

Download the curl.cfg file to your local machine. Then run curl -K curl.cfg <host.domain.com>

Example:

curl -K curl.cfg https://www.vandan.co

HTTP/2 200
server: openresty
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
status: 200 OK
x-request-id: 29c628b4-4b49-426d-a1be-4928d2468191
etag: W/"963d-Kw0n9/hWhq1uSIZKK4nlCgKFmM0"
ghost-cache: HIT
cache-control: public, max-age=0
ghost-age: 186
x-request-id: 42e64747-87e8-4fda-b248-b27075cd5ede
via: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
accept-ranges: bytes
date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 01:05:46 GMT
age: 0
x-served-by: cache-ams12769-AMS, cache-ewr18165-EWR
x-cache: MISS, MISS
x-cache-hits: 0, 0
x-timer: S1681779947.600091,VS0,VE93
vary: Cookie, Accept-Encoding
ghost-fastly: true
alt-svc: clear
content-length: 38461

dnslookup: 	0.053115
tcp connect: 	0.257915
ssl handshake: 	0.561821
pretransfer: 	0.304136
redirect: 	0.000000
TTFB: 		0.414609
total time: 	0.414936