Small, general-purpose helper tools, each in its own folder with a README. They were built while working on other projects and kept here so they can be found and reused instead of rebuilt.
| tool | what it does |
|---|---|
| render-viewer | live browser view of image-sequence renders as they land, with Play/scrub |
| job-pause | freeze / unfreeze long jobs (renders, encodes) without losing progress |
| mem-watch | watch a Mac's memory per application during a long job; never kills anything |
| repo-stats | line-count snapshot of a git repo, with the change since last time |
| usgs-terrain | download US aerial imagery + elevation for any 8 × 8 km box (public domain) |
| composite-fx | effects for compositing CG over real footage: grade, light wrap, shake, grain… |
| flyby-sound | physically modelled aircraft flyby sound: Doppler, delay, ground echo |
| hlg-to-sdr | iPhone HDR (HLG) video → normal SDR frames |
| video-helpers | macOS: grab a frame, phone bezel around a recording, side-by-side, no ffmpeg |
| screenshot-frame | iPhone body around iOS Simulator screenshots |
| glb-tools | recentre / recolour GLB 3D models without Blender |
Get one tool without cloning everything:
git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/ethanpaschkes/tools.git
cd tools && git sparse-checkout set render-viewerNone of these tools need an account, key or token. MIT licensed.