What is this?
This page lists a bunch of tools that I have found interesting or useful at some point in time.
Windows
- Scoop: Install nice things.
- OtrosLogViewer: Look at logs.
- EarTrumpet: Manage audio output.
- Anki: Learn more.
- Calibre: Read books.
- gInk: Draw on your screen.
- Notable: Take notes. No longer open source…
- Obsidian: Take notes. Has free version.
- Inkdrop
- Plex
- PDFsam
- qBitTorrent
- Jabba: Manage Java versions.
- Barrier: Open source KVM software.
- Input Leap: Barrier fork, iirc.
Mac
Web
- CyberChef: Many things :)
- Kody Tools: Similar to CyberChef.
- QuickType: Get your types from a json.
- Photopea: Free web photoshop like app.
Diagrams
- Diagrams.net
- Excalidraw: Hand-drawn looking diagrams.
- Excalideck: Build PDF slides with excalidraw.
- Excalidraw Claymate: Build GIF/HTML “carousel” slides with excalidraw.
- DrawDB: Name says it all?
Fonts
Misc
- ffmpeg
- scrcpy: Mirror android screen on the computer
- Tailscale
- fck-nat: Similar to NAT instances.
- Talon: Hands free input. Tried it but I guess it requires more time than I’m willing to invest right now.
- Paperless-ngx: document management.
- yasb: cool looking windows status bar
Want to try
- tRPC
- ts-rest
- t3 scaffold Tried it out
- Framer
- Cloudflare R2
- Fly.io
- Render
- Motion Canvas
- Keynote for “animations”
- Drizzle ORM or Kysely with Planetscales DatabaseJS.
- Turso
- Nile
- Templ
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- Yaak: Another http client, I think the ones I use the most are Postman (because I am forced to sometimes) and Hoppscotch
- Jam: Browser extension to make “perfect bug reports”
- drawDB: Db designt tool and SQL generator.
Check out
- ente: Looks like they open sourced their server, maybe see if better to self host than Immich (Immich is v good but they have many “breaking” changes)
- Damselfly: Another mentioned alternative to ente/Immich/Photoprism…
- https://github.com/dstackai/dstack