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Boop - A scriptable scratchpad for developers. Free & open source!

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Boop is a place for developers to paste text and transform it using basic operations such as JSON formatting, unescaping, base 64 encoding, etc. The idea is to make those tasks quick to access and avoid having to paste your precious data into random websites.

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Upvoted for the name alone 🤙🏼
Maker
Hahaha, thank you Ryan!
Why is there a contradiction on your site "Embedding Javascript code in a native shell is one of the least efficient ways to build an application and only a fool would want that." and after it "Embedding Javascript code in a native shell is one of the most efficient ways to build an application and only a fool wouldn't want that." ? (even so, a great product)
Maker
Bit of a joke! There is a bit of tension in the macOS world between native developers and web-based (like Electron) applications. Since Boop is somewhere in the middle, I thought I'd poke fun at both sides.
Maker
First of all, let me apologize for the new account. I'm a long time lurker, but my account was stuck with my old Twitter handle, so I had to deactivate then re-sign in to update that. Second, meet Boop! It's a super simple place for developers to perform simple operations on plain text. I started working on it when I realized I used to just look up "JSON Formatter", "remove slashes", or "base64 decode online"; then paste whatever I needed to read in whatever the first result was, not thinking about the security implications. Boop is not really a code editor, and it's not really a notes app. It's more of a place to just read and transform text. It's a safe place of transit for you to experiment in. It comes loaded with the scripts that I use the most, and you can very easily extend it with a super simple Javascript API. And best of all, it's free, and open source! Thanks for looking at Boop, I hope you enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed building it. On to the next update!
Great! Is there a repo of scripts? Or plan to do something like that?
Maker
Yes! Since the app is open source, you can see all the scripts here:
ah great! And it automatically updates from the list? Or a new build is required? I'm thinking on sharing scripts with the community
Amazing. No more terminal command for various encoding and can finally remove all those bookmarks for online formatters. Great stuff!
Maker
Love it.
Maker
no linux support
Maker
Sorry about that, it's a native app so it cannot support Linux out of the box. There's been requests for Linux/Windows versions so stay on the lookout!
I think you could use gtk for the ui and have native apps for all 3 oses with little effort
Very nice app. I noticed this via the MAS just this Tuesday.
Would be awesome to have this persist the text somewhere. I can see myself using this to maintain gists or long living notes