Today we’ll look at a few interesting apps that have been on my list: GCP Custom UI, Ripasso password manager and PixelTools. The first two are open-source but the last is a free to use SaaS suite based on Open-Source frameworks so I’m including it.
Let’s start with the powerful GCP Custom UI written by a fellow GDE Aliane Abdelouahab
GCP Custom UI
Aliane in the GDE community has been busy working on this “gcp-custom-ui” app for some time. They would get excited and post updates and even take feature requests. I decided it had grown big enough it was worth a deep dive just on its own.
I’ll clone down the repo
isaac@isaac-G707:~/Workspaces$ git clone https://github.com/abdelouahabb/gcp-custom-ui.git
Cloning into 'gcp-custom-ui'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 2315, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (772/772), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (260/260), done.
remote: Total 2315 (delta 532), reused 682 (delta 448), pack-reused 1543 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (2315/2315), 3.74 MiB | 11.56 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1630/1630), done.
isaac@isaac-G707:~/Workspaces$ cd gcp-custom-ui/
isaac@isaac-G707:~/Workspaces/gcp-custom-ui$
I then did the gcloud auth login steps
$ gcloud auth login
$ gcloud auth application-default login
$ gcloud components install beta
Though the last one doesn’t really work in my setup so I just verified i had the latest installed
$ sudo apt-get install google-cloud-cli
[sudo: authenticate] Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Solving dependencies... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
grub-pc-bin
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be upgraded:
google-cloud-cli
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/93.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 292 kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database… 320491 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/google-cloud-cli_590.0.1-0_amd64.deb…
Unpacking google-cloud-cli (590.0.1-0) over (590.0.0-0)…
Setting up google-cloud-cli (590.0.1-0)…
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.43-2ubuntu2.4)…
I need to set the .env. The defaults are fine
isaac@isaac-G707:~/Workspaces/gcp-custom-ui$ cp .env.example .env
isaac@isaac-G707:~/Workspaces/gcp-custom-ui$ cat .env
# ============================================================================
# CloudPulse 2026 — Runtime Environment Configuration (.env.example)
# Copy to .env if you want to override default ports or hosts:
# cp .env.example .env
#
# Never commit real API keys, OAuth tokens, or GCP Project IDs to git!
# ============================================================================
# Express Backend API & WebSocket Bridge (server/index.js)
BACKEND_HOST=127.0.0.1
BACKEND_PORT=4000
PORT=4000
# Vite Frontend Dev Server (vite.config.js)
VITE_HOST=0.0.0.0
VITE_PORT=5173
# Optional: Explicit proxy target override for /api/* (defaults to http://${BACKEND_HOST}:${BACKEND_PORT})
# VITE_API_PROXY_TARGET=http://127.0.0.1:4000
# Automatically start & watch server/index.js when running `npm run dev` (true | false)
VITE_AUTO_START_BACKEND=true
I’ll install any dependencies for NodeJS
isaac@isaac-G707:~/Workspaces/gcp-custom-ui$ nvm use lts/jod
Now using node v22.23.2 (npm v10.9.8)
isaac@isaac-G707:~/Workspaces/gcp-custom-ui$ npm install
added 238 packages, and audited 239 packages in 8s
44 packages are looking for funding
run `npm fund` for details
5 vulnerabilities (4 moderate, 1 high)
To address issues that do not require attention, run:
npm audit fix
To address all issues (including breaking changes), run:
npm audit fix --force
Run `npm audit` for details.
I can now run npm run dev to fire it up
I can now see a lot of stuff on the heads up. As this is my demo account, it is not surprising to see very little running and no charges yet
One of my favourite features might be this API and Services page that has kill switches on all the things. For demos were we might live show some services (and API keys), this is a nice “giant red button” to stop services that could incur lots of charges if left on
There are some “tribunals” to launch a series of evaluation agents. I don’t have a positive connotation of “tribunal” - perhaps they meant “council”, but regardless, I launched the Cloud Architect one
and one of it’s suggestions was to remove RDP access in this demo account (not a bad firewall rule, but for no computes, not one I’ll execute)
I next ran the SRE inspector on that page. It went and created some cloudquotas and operational logs (I believe, but am not 100% certain)
I tried the “Inspect in Shell”
But saw it complain about the project ID in the output. I manually corrected and ran again and saw no errors (no logs, but no errors)
I found some strange behaviours on graphs
Provision resources
One nice feature is a UI around some of the common activities one might do in a GCP project like creating resources.
If I clean “+ Provision Resource” in the upper right, I am presented with a nice “Provision Real GCP Resource” (what would the alternative be, magical?)
I like the cost calculator for VMs
As you can see, it suggests the ‘Always Free VM’ of e2-micro that will cost $3.96/month. That is because Public IPs are not included with the ‘free’.
I particularly like the gcloud command being shown which is useful for documentation or making one’s own subtle tweaks
In this case, we see the command would be: “gcloud compute instances create careful-compass-241122-vm-7839 –project=careful-compass-241122 –zone=us-east1-b –machine-type=e2-micro –service-account=vertex-express@careful-compass-241122.iam.gserviceaccount.com –boot-disk-size=20GB –boot-disk-type=pd-balanced –provisioning-model=SPOT –instance-termination-action=STOP –network=default –tags=http-server,https-server”
Resource Groups
One of the features they added for me was Azure equivalent Resource Groups. When the feature was added, I was confused how it would come into being.
Let’s try creating an RG
this suggests it should not incur charges, but prompts me to confirm the action
I executed and saw a green “resource group created” dialog show up but it didn’t say long enough for me to screen capture it.
At the bottom of the page we now see my resource group “rg-myfirstrg” showing up
However, as I look at the implementation of RGs, its really more of an IAM consideration across a project rather than a “grouping of resources”
Ripasso
I saw this Linux gamer post recently that pointed to this Linux links post about Ripasso password manager.
Like many modern TUIs, this one is also written in Rust.
Let’s start by cloning it down
isaac@isaac-G707:~/Workspaces$ git clone https://github.com/cortex/ripasso.git
Cloning into 'ripasso'...
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remote: Total 5401 (delta 925), reused 855 (delta 839), pack-reused 4396 (from 3)
Receiving objects: 100% (5401/5401), 3.78 MiB | 12.41 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3372/3372), done.
isaac@isaac-G707:~/Workspaces$ cd ripasso/
I could then build it with cargo
isaac@isaac-G707:~/Workspaces/ripasso$ cargo build --all
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warning: pango-sys@0.22.0:
error: failed to run custom build command for `pango-sys v0.22.0`
Caused by:
process didn't exit successfully: `/home/isaac/Workspaces/ripasso/target/debug/build/pango-sys-e3740830f113648a/build-script-build` (exit status: 1)
--- stdout
cargo:rerun-if-changed=/home/isaac/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/pango-sys-0.22.0/Cargo.toml
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PANGO_NO_PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_PATH
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
cargo:warning=
pkg-config exited with status code 1
> PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS=1 pkg-config --libs --cflags pango 'pango >= 1.50'
pkg-config output:
Package pango was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pango.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'pango' not found
Package 'pango' not found
The system library `pango` required by crate `pango-sys` was not found.
The file `pango.pc` needs to be installed and the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable must contain its parent directory.
The PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable is not set.
HINT: if you have installed the library, try setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the directory containing `pango.pc`.
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
warning: gdk-pixbuf-sys@0.22.0:
error: failed to run custom build command for `gdk-pixbuf-sys v0.22.0`
Caused by:
process didn't exit successfully: `/home/isaac/Workspaces/ripasso/target/debug/build/gdk-pixbuf-sys-4c3fd5a1fc9e3744/build-script-build` (exit status: 1)
--- stdout
cargo:rerun-if-changed=/home/isaac/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/gdk-pixbuf-sys-0.22.0/Cargo.toml
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=GDK_PIXBUF_2.0_NO_PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_PATH
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
cargo:warning=
pkg-config exited with status code 1
> PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS=1 pkg-config --libs --cflags gdk-pixbuf-2.0 'gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.36.8'
pkg-config output:
Package gdk-pixbuf-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gdk-pixbuf-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'gdk-pixbuf-2.0' not found
Package 'gdk-pixbuf-2.0' not found
The system library `gdk-pixbuf-2.0` required by crate `gdk-pixbuf-sys` was not found.
The file `gdk-pixbuf-2.0.pc` needs to be installed and the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable must contain its parent directory.
The PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable is not set.
HINT: if you have installed the library, try setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the directory containing `gdk-pixbuf-2.0.pc`.
I noticed the missing library and installed
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y pkg-config libpango1.0-dev
I still needed more packages
$ sudo apt install libssl-dev libclang-dev libadwaita-1-dev libgpgme-dev libgpg-error-dev libgtk-4-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev capnproto
But it finally worked
...
Compiling terminal_size v0.4.4
Compiling cursive v0.21.1
Compiling git2 v0.21.0
Compiling pango v0.22.8
Compiling gdk-pixbuf v0.22.0
Compiling rustls-webpki v0.103.13
Compiling gdk4 v0.11.4
Compiling tokio-rustls v0.26.4
Compiling rustls-platform-verifier v0.7.0
Compiling gsk4 v0.11.4
Compiling hyper-rustls v0.27.9
Compiling reqwest v0.13.4
Compiling gtk4 v0.11.4
Compiling ripasso v0.8.0 (/home/isaac/Workspaces/ripasso/crates/ripasso)
Compiling libadwaita v0.9.2
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 57.43s
I was trying to find the best way to run the app and compiled and ran the gtk version
isaac@isaac-G707:~/Workspaces/ripasso$ cargo run --bin ripasso-gtk
Compiling bindgen v0.72.1
Compiling openssl-sys v0.9.117
Compiling ossl v1.5.2
Compiling sequoia-openpgp v2.4.1
Compiling sequoia-ipc v0.36.1
Compiling sequoia-gpg-agent v0.6.2
Compiling ripasso v0.8.0 (/home/isaac/Workspaces/ripasso/crates/ripasso)
Compiling ripasso-gtk v0.8.0 (/home/isaac/Workspaces/ripasso/crates/ripasso-gtk)
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 20.41s
Running `target/debug/ripasso-gtk`
However, as soon as I compiled and ran it, on first collection create it crashed
I tried “ripasso-cursive” next, the TUI
But alas that crashed as well
I think that puts a pin in it for me.
PixelTools
A user wrote in to me to check out their passion project, Pixeltools. It’s free to use and based on open-source tooling, but it itself is not open-source (which is fine, just pointing that out in case you wanted to run it locally).
It was easy to flip an image
Or perhaps I want to have a selfie setup for other images, here I can remove the background from a recent event
I can easily set to half-speed an MP4
I tried the face blur but it really just found my own
I can, of course, draw my own boxes
I can generate App Icons which is handy
I can then take some of these screenshots and turn them into new images (good for presentations)
The DevTools has some interesting options. This How Long has a timer that can down to various times
Generate a HASH (nice for MD5)
Or just pick a colour from the screen
The text translation says it can do things like Elvish but I question those (looks like it just changes the w to a v)
But I found some useful ones like generating usernames
or passwords
or URL encode
The Invoice Generator can be handy for small businesses
I won’t go over all the tools, but you can check them out on the website at Pixeltools.
Summary
Today we looked at an interesting GCP tool “gcp-custom-ui” which is a fantastic high featured Google Cloud tool. While some of the features are a bit confusing to me, I do like the “FinOps” field that shows the impact to cost on any action and in many cases, the reveal of the gcloud commands so I could see what it was doing.
Next I looked at Ripasso password manager which seemed promising but would crash after initial TUI or UI display so I stopped going any farther.
Lastly, we looked at a free SaaS site, PixelTools which has quite a variety of free to use features for Image, PDF, Audio, Video, Invoicing, Text and miscellaneous Dev Tools. There is no paid option so I can only assume it’s just a labor of love by the authors.