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@mmshivesh

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Peeps,

First of all, how have you been? I myself have been alright. Time is weird, eh? One minute, it’s October. The next minute, it’s still October, but also a year later. And so here we are, much later than expected, reunited again to chat about a new Boop update. And what an update it is.

The kind folks over at Accidental Tech Podcast chatted about Boop, giving it a very nice review. One of their listeners said Boop is “like paper plates but for JSON” and I cannot overstate how much I love that. You can listen to it here: https://atp.fm/437 starting at 1:06:50

Now, this new version finally brings some very much needed upgrades: First off, a new icon that won’t look totally wonky alongside other Big Sur icons. It is an iteration of a new icon designed by @mmshivesh, and it makes quite a bit of a difference in the ol’ dock.

I bet what sticks out is my number of unread messages.

I’ve also spent some time refreshing the overall user interface, to make it more in line with other Big Sur/Monterey applications. The picker has a new look, the editor got a more refined color scheme, and it overall just feels a lot better. Plus, it's now a universal app. Yay!

Anyway, here's what's new:

New icon inspired by mmshivesh
New design
Fixed an issue with the status bar
Fixed the CSV to JSON script
13 new scripts
Added support for SF Symbols as script icons
Universal build for Apple Silicon support

New Scripts:

ASCII to Hex
Hex to ASCII
Binary to Decimal
Decimal to Binary
Decimal to Hex
Hex to Decimal
Fish Hex Path Converter
Lorem Ipsum
Sort JSON
URL Defang
URL Refang
URL Entities Decode
URL Entities Encode

I wish you a lot of great spooks, stay safe and healthy out there!

Ivan_

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What's Changed

Updated Icon for Big Sur by @mmshivesh in #168
clear statusView before script execution by @nhnicwaller in #180
Added hex to ASCII conversion scripts by @aWZHY0yQH81uOYvH in #185
feat: add "Sort JSON" script by @madnh in #187
Promoted ascii script, added error by @IvanMathy in #242
doubled spaces fix by @Akhrameev in #191
full url encode/decode by @luisfontes19 in #192
created lorem impsum script by @luisfontes19 in #193
created script to convert rgb to hex by @luisfontes19 in #195
created script to compare lines by @luisfontes19 in #196
Js object to json by @luisfontes19 in #197
Unicode scripts by @luisfontes19 in #199
Fix typos in README by @reichert621 in #198
Time to seconds script by @PeteChu in #201
Add URL Defang and URL Refang scripts by @nzrb in #211
Fix main() example param name by @KaraJovian in #224
Added csv, tsv or markdown table to "pretty markdown table" Script by @xshoji in #203
fix(csvToJson): address CSV complexities by @Flare576 in #205
digi 2 ascii by @jnre in #209
Add script to convert JS arrays/objects to PHP associative array. by @jtolj in #210
Add scripts for converting decimals to hexadecimal strings and decima… by @mauricevb in #219
Promoted url script, fixed error, added icon by @IvanMathy in #244
Promoted sort, added array sorting by @IvanMathy in #243
Add Fish PATH Hex Converter by @psseelman in #234
Script: Generate Project Glossary Markdown file by @ke4vtw in #249
Feat/bigsur by @IvanMathy in #286
Supporting SF Symbols identifiers for script icons by @nd-net in #273
Release/1.4.0 by @IvanMathy in #305
Fixed popover issue by @IvanMathy in #306

New Contributors

@mmshivesh made their first contribution in #168
@aWZHY0yQH81uOYvH made their first contribution in #185
@madnh made their first contribution in #187
@Akhrameev made their first contribution in #191
@luisfontes19 made their first contribution in #192
@reichert621 made their first contribution in #198
@PeteChu made their first contribution in #201
@nzrb made their first contribution in #211
@KaraJovian made their first contribution in #224
@xshoji made their first contribution in #203
@Flare576 made their first contribution in #205
@jnre made their first contribution in #209
@jtolj made their first contribution in #210
@mauricevb made their first contribution in #219
@nd-net made their first contribution in #273

Full Changelog: 1.3.0...1.4.0

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Friends,

I hope this release finds you well. Taking care of 8000 yourself is important. I've been doing a bit of that lately (hence the delay between releases), but I've also been taking care of Boop. And boy, what a release it is!

Version 1.3.0 brings some big, big, big performance improvements. As in, 99.7% faster editing according to some of my tests, potentially even more on very big documents. Plus, we've got 11 new scripts like SHA hashing and oNe tHaT MAKE YouR tEXt loOk LIkE thAt oooOoOoOOOH.

The syntax highlighting should be a lot, lot faster now, thanks to a fairly big overhaul of how it works under the hood. What's cool with this update is that it also handles tricky situations like this (look at lines 4, 10, and 12):

a lot better:

The speed improvements are clearly noticeable. If you take a look at my notes from when I started working on the issue, you'll see that there was a drastic change in processing time when dealing with significant amounts of data:

And here are some actual benchmarks between 1.2.1 and 1.3.0 with a huge JSON file:

I wrote a giant post-mortem of the why and how this happened, but all things considered I don't think anyone wants to hear me ramble about some obscure part of computer science. So the cliff notes version is: Regexes were too complex, so I changed the way they work by taking inspiration from Prism. This allowed more accurate results with smaller expressions. Also, ditching Swift's String for NSString gave like a 30% performance bump.

Anyway, here are all the changes in this release:

Changelog

Huge performance upgrades
Fixed link pasting from Safari
Fixed window jumping around on launch
Fixed count character scripts to support unicode
Fixed line detection in some scripts
Changed the way the tab key works in the script picker
Upgraded the smart characters system

And 11 new scripts:

SpONGeCASe
Android localized Strings to iOS
iOS localized String to Android
HML Encode all Characters
PHP Unserialize
Replace Smart Quotes
YAML to JSON
JSON to YAML
SHA1 hash
SHA256 hash
SHA512 hash

It took a lot of effort to put this update together, so thank you so much to all the contributors, bug reporters, and users! Next time, we'll tackle some Big Sur updates and a few more things.

That's pretty much it for me, thanks for listening and have a fantastic rest of your week!

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Howdy! Here's a quick update to fix a few issues. It contains the same changes as 1.2.0 plus the following fixes:

The JWT decoder script now works properly
Input that require substitutions or replacements now work properly.

Here's a comparison of the current version (top) and the previous, broken behavior (bottom) while typing some French:

As you can see, the original characters were left in after the substitution. This should hopefully also fix languages such as Japanese and Chinese.

Anyway, version 1.3.0 is well underway and has some very, very exciting stuff. See y'all soon!

If you got Boop on the Mac App Store, you can update it there as well.

Friends, I hope you're all doing well. Today's Boop update is pretty exciting, and I hope you'll like it!

Feeling lazy? I made a trailer and animated explanations of what's new on Twitter. Otherwise, the full changelog is below.

First of all, we have 19 new scripts, including some absolute bangers like CSS formatting, JSON Minifying, line sorting, and eval Javascripting. Plus, they're now loaded only when you need it so Boop does more with a smaller memory footprint.

Second of all, we have the new modules support system. This lets you bring external dependencies into your scripts with minimal changes and share code between scripts, kinda like that:

const { encode } = require('@boop/base64')

let something = encode('hello')

Boop ships with a couple modules, and you can add in your own. It's overall pretty awesome, and you should read the documentation to better understand how it works. Here's an example where I use lodash to power several scripts based on the same functions:

Third of all, we have a new insert() function that lets you insert text at the cursor's location. It's pretty neat.

Fourth of all, we now have script debugging. Kinda. You'll need to make your own debug build of Boop, and it's all explained in the documentation so make sure to read it carefully. It's also super cool and very useful when debugging modules.

Last of all, there is a bunch of bug fixes and small enhancements, which can all be found right below.

Changelog

New features:

19 new scripts including CSS and SQL format/minify, sorting, and more!
New modules API! You can now include dependencies as modules, leveraging existing libraries and sharing code between scripts.
The Boop window now remembers its size when you re-open it.
Scripts are now loaded on demand, saving processing power and memory.
Added insert() function, allowing scripts to insert text where the cursor is.

Bug Fixes:

Scripts now properly handle UTF-8 text containing special characters.
Updated documentation links to avoid missing page issues.
Fixed memory leak in search panel.
Fixed a crash when accidentally searching for something very, very long.
Status View messages now disappear properly after 10s. * Base 64 encode/decode now supports UTF-8.
Fixed an issue with HTML encode/decode.
Fixed XML formatter.
Fixed an issue with JSON to CSV.
Fixed an issue with Reverse String.

New scripts:

Camel Case
Count Words
Deburr
Eval Javascript
Format CSS
Format SQL
Kebab Case
Minify CSS
Minify JSON
Minify SQL
Minify XML
Natural Sort Lines
Rot 13 Cypher
Snake Case
Sort Lines
Start Case
Sum All
Trim
Hex color to RGB

Thanks for reading til the end! Next time, I should be done with the performance upgrades. In the meantime remember to be kind to others and to take care of yourself.

If you got Boop on the Mac App Store, you can update it there as well.

Well, dang. Before we get to the release notes, I’d like to say thank you for the overwhelming response to Boop.

I have been working on this app for over two years now, and decided to release it because a couple of friends liked it a lot. I did not imagine it would get so much love from the internet. Between the fantastic PRs submitted, the awesome feature requests, and being featured on the Mac App Store’s “Apps and Game We Love Right Now” list, it’s been quite a thrilling ride.

So once again, thank you for using, contributing to, and/or spreading the word about Boop. It means a lot to me and this is what keeps me going. I hope you'll like this update!

If you're not a fan of reading release notes, here's a trailer for it.

New features:

Text Services: Send any text to Boop from anywhere by right clicking and selecting Services > Send to Boop. Special thanks to Martin Pittenauer.
Light mode: Boop now follow the system settings and can optionally be locked into light or dark mode via the preferences menu.
New Scripts: JWT decoding, Query String <-> JSON, shuffle lines, date to timestamp, and more!
Better Text Editor: Quotes, braces, and special characters are handled better in this version.
Find more scripts: Added a link to the scripts repository. Find new ideas or suggest your own!