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title: 'Software I Love'
url: 'https://grav.munn.me/software-i-love'
markdown: 'https://grav.munn.me/software-i-love.md'
date: '2025-11-09'
description: 'Items below are software I consider indispensable Software that can solve many different itches, is easy to use, and currently maintained are the main selection criterion that I use for adding things to this list. Over the years I have found many pieces of software (both freeware, shareware, open s…'
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# Items below are software I consider indispensable

Software that can solve many different itches, is easy to use, and currently maintained are the main selection criterion that I use for adding things to this list. Over the years I have found many pieces of software (both freeware, shareware, open sources, etc). That I regularly use. I don’t really care if something is proprietary, so long as it works well, the company treats me well, and keeps their products up-to-date.

## Non-Free Software Desktop

| Name | Description | Platform | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Securecrt](https://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/index.html) | The best ssh terminal on the planet. The company keeps the software up-to-date, and it works on almost any platform. | Mac,linux,windows | 139.00 |
| [Typora](https://typora.io/) | While it’s ‘free’ for now, I hope he makes some money on it. BEST markdown editor EVER. It’s what I author these pages on. WYSYWIG and EASY TABLES in markdown! | Mac,linux,windows | ?? |
| [Paste](https://pasteapp.io/) | Infinite paste board software for mac. Its nice, but alas they went to a subscription model. But I love the software so much I just budget for it. | Mac | 9.99/yr? |
| [OmniGraffle](https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle) | BEST vector drawing program ever. You can pretty do much anything with this thing. Inkscape would be a close second if you are looking for ‘free’. | Mac | 200.00 |
| [Paprika 3](https://www.paprikaapp.com/) | Good recipe manager for android, mac desktop, or ios. | Mac/Windows |  |
| [HyperDock](https://bahoom.com/hyperdock) | Gives mac a proper window preview | Mac | $9.95 |
| [BackBlaze](https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html) | Wonderful ‘back up’ my stuff PRE encrypted before its sent to cloud. NOT google, ms or APPLE! | Mac,windows | $50.00/per pc/year unlimited storage. |
| [daisyDisk](https://daisydiskapp.com/) | Uses concentric circles to tell you where you disk space went. | Mac | 9.99 |
| [Crossover](https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover) | Lets you run windows on linux or mac | Mac/Linux | $60.00 |
| [Msecure](https://www.msecure.com/) | Password manager with optional local syncing. They give you multi platform for this price | Mac/Linux |  |
| [StrongBox](https://strongboxsafe.com/) | Keepass compatible password manager, also does those darn 2fa tokens. | IOS/ | 9.99 |
| [TablePlus](https://www.tableplus.io/) | Mac Database GUI for almost any database. | Multi Platform | $99/2PC |
| [Printopia](https://www.decisivetactics.com/products/printopia/) | Use Apple Airprint on Any Printer | Mac | 9.99 |
| [Unraid](https://unraid.net/) | Not really desktop, but GREAT way to do home nas the easy way. GREAT community | LInux | $120.00 |
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## Free Software (apps)

| Name | Description | Platform | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) | Web browser | All | 3 |
| [Edge](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge?r=1) | Web Browser (Microsoft)-slightly less telling on, but better than Chrome. REALLY good for PWA’s etc. | All | 4 |
| Apple Mail | If it weren’t for their snooping, I would use this for everything, but it does work well. | Mac | 3 |
| [Iterm2](https://iterm2.com/) | BEST terminal emulator for MAC | Mac | 5 |
| [Balena Etcher](https://balena-etcher.eu/) | Easy way to burn (image) things to SDCArds for rpi etc. | All | 4 |
| [Brave](https://brave.com/) | I think they might be more private, but not sure, don’t use myself but list to avoid hypocrisy about ‘spybrowsers’. | All | ? |
| [KeyStore Explorer](http://keystore-explorer.org/) | Lets you do all things with certificates (x.509 etc). Java alas | All | 3 |
| [DarkTable](https://www.darktable.org/) | Hard, if somewhat overly complicated RAW workflow (lightroom replacement) | All | 3.7 |
| [F.lux](https://justgetflux.com/) | Keeps you from going blind at night (gets rid of blue in monitor) | All | 5 |
| [Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup](https://crawl.develz.org/) | BEST rogue clone EVER | All | 5 |
| [Calibre](https://calibre-ebook.com/) | Ebook ninjitsu. Handles almost any ebooks. Converts between inconvenient formats. | All | 5 |
| [Dbeaver Community Edition](https://dbeaver.io/) | Kind of like Table Plus, but free. java Dependency | All | 4 |
| [HandBrake](https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php) | Swiss Army knife of video conversion | All | 5 |
| [image2Icon](https://img2icnsapp.com/) | Nice icon converter for MACOS (kinda free) | MAC | 5 |
| [Microsoft Remote Destop Client](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/remote-desktop-clients) | VERY nice client for managing windows (or linux!) Desktops remotely. | All | 4 |
| [MonitorControl](https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl) | Lets you control non-apple monitors from menu | MAC | 5 |
| [USBImager](https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager) | VERY lightweight multi platform sd card imager | Multiple | 4 |
| [Qbitorrent](https://www.qbittorrent.org/download.php) | Bitorrent Client for various platforms | Multiple | 4 |
| [OpenEmu](https://openemu.org/) | Multi system emulator for MAC easy to setup (a bit wierd on controls though) | Mac | 4 |
| [SDLMame](https://sdlmame.lngn.net/) | Arcard Emulator | Mac | 4 |
| [Signal](https://signal.org/en/) | Private Messaging | ios/android/mac | 5 |
| [Wireshark](https://www.wireshark.org/) | Packet Capture and Analysis utility | All | 5 |
| [VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) | MS telemetry enabled nice editor | All | 4 |
| [The Unarchiver](https://macpaw.com/the-unarchiver) | NICE archiving utility for MAC | Mac | 5 |
| [UnClack](https://unclack.app/#/) | Stops your keyboard from making noise when you are on the video phone. | Mac | 4 |
| [MonoSnap](https://monosnap.com/) | NICE free screen capture | Mac | 4 |
| [portmaster](https://safing.io/portmaster/#download) | See what you are doing on the network | linux | 4 |
| [open broadcaster software](https://obsproject.com/) | Open sourced video editing | various | 4 |
| [dino](https://dino.im/) | Support real time text xmpp chat client | various | 4 |
| [Macintosh Garden](https://macintoshgarden.org/) | Old Macintosh abandonware site | various | 5 |
| [dibuja](https://launchpad.net/dibuja) | Desktop app to do pictures like mspaint | various | 4 |
| [arronax](https://www.florian-diesch.de/software/arronax/) | BUILDS custom desktop starters for linux | vairous | 5 |
| [Protect your art](http://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/download.html) | from ai GLAze project (alas only mac/windows) | mac/windows | ? |
| [8bitdo](https://support.8bitdo.com/firmware-updater.html) | upgrader upgrades my joystick (*that sounds ikki but its my gamepad*) | mac/windows | ? |
| [LuLu](https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html) | LIke little snitch but free port blocker and rule maker for macos firewall. | mac | 4 |
| [keenwrite](https://keenwrite.com/) | a markdown typesetter with fancy options |  |  |
| [OCRFeeder](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/OCRFeeder) | Turns images into word processing documents (openoffice) | linux | 4 |
| [Mermaid Graphical Editor](https://astahblog.com/2023/05/26/mermaid-graphical-editor-for-visual-studio-code/) | Lets you edit mermaid diagrams in vscode | linux | 4.51 |
| [qsynth](https://qsynth.sourceforge.io/) | virtual editor for fluidsynth gui | linux | 5 |
| [csv2sql](https://github.com/BdR76/CSVLint/) | plugin for notepad++ that NICELY coverts csv to sql or json called csvlint | windows | 5 |
| [howdy](https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy) | windows hello like face login for linux | linux | 4 |
| [foliate](https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/) | ebook reader for linux | linux | 4 |
| [osxiec](https://github.com/Okerew/osxiec) | a container environment sandbox for mac | mac | ? |
| [normcap](https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/) | lets you ocr the screen without sending poop to the internet | multi-platform |  |
| [workhunt](https://github.com/workhunters/clipboard-core/tree/main) | free clipboard manager for osx | osx | 4 |
| lightzone | a raw editor for photography | multi platform | ? |

## Command Line Software (terminal)

| Name | Description | OS | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| [brew](https://brew.sh/) | Package manger for mostly macOS/linux | Linux/macos | 5 |
| [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) | Used for parsing json like grep for json | Various | 3 |
| [gron](https://github.com/git-tutorial-cmd/gron) | Flattens JSON into greppable output | Various | 5 |
| [dog](https://github.com/ogham/dog) | Modern replacement for dig/dns querying. | various | 5 |
| [fish](https://fishshell.com/) | Fish shell- MUCH better than zsh, bash, or sh | various | 5 |
| [sshguard](https://sshguard.net/index.html) | Non-heavy way to protect your ssh sessions from interlopers | linux | 4 |
| [zstd](https://facebook.github.io/zstd/) | The only good thing to come out of Facebook, nice compressor multi threaded. | various | 5 |
| lrzsz | Zmodem package everyone forgets about EASY way to transfer things through your terminal (no network required!) check your package manager! | linux | 5 |
| [sshaudit](https://github.com/jtesta/ssh-audit) | Automatically audits ssh connections for correctness and security | Linux/Mac/? | 5 |
| [sslscan](https://github.com/rbsec/sslscan) | Scans your ssl site for good security (ciphers only) | Linux/mac | 5 |
| [htop](https://htop.dev/) | Nice process monitor | Linux/mac | 5 |
| [ncdu](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) | Net Curses Du tells you how much space things are using | Linux/Mac/? | 5 |
| [asdf](https://asdf-vm.com/) | Non-sucky way to run python and other dumb languages effectively | Linux/Mac | 5 |
| [caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) | Single web server that does automatic cert renewals, lots of things | All | 5 |
| [Hiawatha](https://caddyserver.com/) | VERY secure web server with built-in XSS whatnot protection | linux | 5 |
| [most](https://www.jedsoft.org/most/) | The BEST pager supports ansi sequences. MUCH better than more, less etc | all | 5 |
| [doas](https://github.com/slicer69/doas) | Secure replacement for sudo from OPENBSD | all | 4 |
| [rclone](https://rclone.org/) | Rosetta Stone for copying files from s3 to say azure, or other clouds (20 + supported) | all | 4 |
| [restic](https://restic.readthedocs.io/) | VERy nice encrypted backup program | all | 5 |
| [ccrypt](http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/) | Encrypt files with aes and symmetric passwords | all | 5 |
| [cfssl](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cfssl/) | Cloudflare ssl cert manager script from json failed | All | 5 |
| [ctop](https://github.com/bcicen/ctop/) | Container top list for docker shows you what your containers are doing | all | 4 |
| [wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/) | Gets any file via https or http | all | 5 |
| [lynx](https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/index.html) | Text only browser (nice for certain websites that have paywalls) | all | 4 |
| [dosbox-x](https://dosbox-x.com/) | Nice emulator for dos that also does voodoo 3dfx cards sb awe etc. | all | 5 |
| [fossil](https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki) | Improved SCM that should have replaced GIT | all | 5 |
| [git-crypt](https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt/) | Encrypts git files automagically letting you keep some secrets in your code BE CAREFUL! | all | 5 |
| [git-lfs](https://git-lfs.github.com/) | Lets you save files up to 4GB in a git repo, only pulling down ‘most current’ version w/o all others. Mostly for binary assets in GIT | all | 5 |
| [ipcalc](https://github.com/kjokjo/ipcalc) | Calculates ipv4 CIDR ranges (for the prehistoric still using ipv4). This version supports modern IPV6 | all | 3 |
| iperf | Network performance tool (iperf3 tends to bomb out on udp) | all | 4 |
| [lazydocker](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker) | Lets you do docker the ‘lazy way’ | all | 4 |
| [trivy](https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy) | Scans docker images for vulnerabilities | all | 5 |
| [minicom](https://salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom) | Terminal program for doing rs232 things or modem things | all | 4 |
| [mkcert](https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert) | Makes ‘self signed cert’ errors go away on your computer | all | 4 |
| [mosh](https://mosh.org/) | Resumable high latency modification to ssh (great for crappy connections) | all | 4 |
| [teleport](https://goteleport.com/teleport/download/) | Very easy way to ‘share’ or manage systems remotely | all | 4 |
| [netdata](https://github.com/netdata/netdata) | Standalone statistics generation for your system - tell you EVERYTHING about your sytem in a nice web guy | all | 5 |
| [mtr](https://github.com/traviscross/mtr) | Network tool replacement for trace route traces network path | all | 4 |
| [nmap](https://nmap.org/) | Security tool for port scanning a host | all | 5 |
| [packer](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer) | Hashicorp program that can ‘make’ image factory or image system. Mostly used on cloud providers for ‘machine image’ generation. | all | 3 |
| [peazip](https://peazip.github.io/) | Actually a guy app, but nice decompressor linux and Mac and windows support 267 archive formats. | all | 4 |
| [pandoc](https://pandoc.org/installing.html) | Rosetta Stone for converting almost any text format to any text format | all | 4 |
| [pigz](https://zlib.net/pigz/) | Gzip parallel compressor MUCH faster than gzip | all | 4 |
| [gztool](https://github.com/circulosmeos/gztool) | Lets you ‘cat’ an ever expanding gzip file (nice for compress as you go gzips) | all | 5 |
| [pixz](https://github.com/vasi/pixz) | Multi threaded compressor for xz | all | 4 |
| [pv](https://catonmat.net/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer) | View status when using pipes like a progress bar for cli | linux | 4 |
| [pwgen](https://github.com/tytso/pwgen) | Generate secure passwords | Linux/mac | 4 |
| qrencode | Encode anything to QR code | Linux/mac | 5 |
| [qemu](https://www.qemu.org/) | Virtual machine emulator on cli for many systems | all | 5 |
| [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) | REALLY fast grep (10x faster) | all | 5 |
| [sqlite](https://sqlite.org/index.html) | Small database | all | 5 |
| [syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) | Synchronizes between different computers/phones files | all | 5 |
| [thefuck](https://www.higithub.com/nvbn/repo/thefuck) | Fixes things you type incorrectly | ? | 5 |
| [tig](http://jonas.github.io/tig/) | Shows you git commit history on cli | all | 5 |
| [tmux](https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~ckuehl/tmux/) | Terminal muxxer replacement for screen | Mac/linux | 4 |
| [topgrade](https://github.com/r-darwish/topgrade) | Upgrades all your things at once (mac) | Mac/linux | 3 |
| tree | Shows a tree of a directory | unix | 5 |
| [upx](https://upx.github.io/) | Compresses executables (very nice on FAT piggy golang programs.) | all | 5 |
| watch | Watches any command and refreshes automatically | unix | 5 |
| [YouTube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) | Downloads YouTube things to local disks | all | 4 |
| Font-insonsolata-for-powerline | Nice font with power line symbols for shells with fancy status lines | all | 5 |
| [percollate](https://github.com/danburzo/percollate) | Turns web pages into ePub documents | all | 5 |
| [New HeteroDox Mono Font](https://github.com/hckiang/font-new-heterodox-mono) | Very nice font that resembles old sun displays with some flair | all | 5 |
| [Jetbrains Mono](https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/) | Nice font for VS code editor | all | 5 |
| [ansible](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html) | Semi-declarative system configurator like yaml to automate system configuration (mostly unix) | all | 4 |
| [bat](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) | Nice cat replacement with coloration and numbering | all | 5 |
| [bmaptool](https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools) | Samsung tool support bitmapping image files (dd) a bit esoteric but can be faster sometimes. | linux | 3 |
| [bookmark](https://github.com/Szymongib/bookmark) | Lets you run bookmark program on cli and open in browser. System independent way to manage bookmarks. | Mac/unix | 4 |
| [Brew cu](https://github.com/Szymongib/bookmark) | Brew cask updater for non-brewed apps in OS X | osx | 5 |
| file | Built in unix command that will use magic #'s to tell you what a file actually is (regardless of extension) | unix | 5 |
| mktemp | Makes temporary files (nice for things that need to disapper) | unix/mac | 5 |
| [nim](https://nim-lang.org/) | My favorite new strongly typed language (executables way small) | all | 5 |
| [perl](https://www.perl.org/get.html) | My first language other than basic or pascal | all | 4 |
| [steampipe](https://steampipe.io/) | Query azure or was converts into sql | all | 4 |
| [exa](https://the.exa.website/) | Nice rust replacement for ls (colors and whatnot) | all | 5 |
| [docker-slim](https://dockersl.im/) | Make your docker images smaller automagically (kind of) | all | 4 |
| [dockle](https://github.com/goodwithtech/dockle) | Build secure docker images (from guide) golang program | all | 4 |
| [Hadolint](https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint) | Docker linter written in haskell | all | 4 |
| [gitea](https://gitea.io/en-us/) | NICE scm like GitHub but free and non-bloaty | all | 4 |
| [pspg](https://github.com/okbob/pspg) | Database pager (way more that this!) lets you see database and csvs in nice curses interface. Search whatnot. Can view csv files as well. [Supports realtime steaming](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyxuEkoYDQk). `pspg -f pipe --stream --hold-stream=1` and on postgresql side: set output to pipe: `\o pipe` | all | 5 |
| lnav | Logfile Navigator Lets you see logs with time sequences. Local log file viewer | all | 5 |
| [fisher](https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher) | Manages packages for fish shell | all | 5 |
| [omf](https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish) | Oh my fish manages themes and whatnot | all | 5 |
| [technitium](https://technitium.com) | DNS adblocker that’s way better than pihole | all | 5 |
| [yggdrasil network](https://yggdrasil-network.github.io) | Network overlay with built in routing | all | 5 |
| [Apptainer (formerly singularity)](https://apptainer.org) | Secure single file container environment nice replacement for docker | all | 5 |
| [Nim VS code add in (more recent version)](https://github.com/saem/vscode-nim) | Nim VS code plugin with debugging and more recent version. Also turn on 'autosave' to have things almost autocheck | all | 5 |
| [nala](https://gitlab.com/volian/nala) | Nicer cli for doing debian packages | debian | 4 |
| [cloudflare-ddns](https://github.com/favonia/cloudflare-ddns) | the ONLY working one for updating cloudflare zones. I tried like 10 rust ones and NONe worked. | all since its go | 5 |
| [oh-my-posh](https://ohmyposh.dev) | Custom command line prompt editor | all | 5 |
| [horcruxes](https://github.com/jesseduffield/horcrux) | Allows you to separate files in to x of n pieces, and to retrieve w/o password by having x of n pieces (like if you have 3 of 5 you can retrieve the file). | all | 4 |
| [grr](https://github.com/google/grr) | real-time forensic tool | all | 4 |
| [distrobox](https://distrobox.privatedns.org/) | lets you 'try out' other distros via docker in linux | all | 4 |
| [ltex](https://valentjn.github.io/ltex/) | checks grammar in markdown | all | 4 |
| [yq](https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/#install) | like jq for yaml | all | 4 |
| [kubernetes goat](https://madhuakula.com/kubernetes-goat/) | lets you hack away at kubernetes for security problems safely | all | 4 |
| [rq](https://github.com/dflemstr/rq) | data transformation software (say toml to yaml whatnot) | all | 4 |
| [loginx](https://github.com/msharov/loginx) | replacement for unix login command (does things like remember the last login etc) | linux | 4 |
| [ripgrep-all](https://itsfoss.com/ripgrep-all/) | supercharged grep that does ebooks, pdf etc. | linux | 4 |
| [picosni](https://elesiuta.github.io/picosnitch/)[tch](https://elesiuta.github.io/picosnitch/) | bpf based packet logger like little snitch | linux | 4 |
| [ae-dir](https://ae-dir.com/faq.html) | a least prileged ldap server | linux | ? |
| [k9s](https://adamtheautomator.com/k9s-kubernetes/) | easier way to manage k80s | kubernetes is evil and complexy but everyone seems to love it. Oogle created it, so is probably scary and spy like | 5 {-1} (if you think k80s is nothing more than an 80s' tech in modern clothing that requires 1000GB of ram to run.) |
| [subfinder](https://trendoceans.com/subfinder-linux/) | finds all the subdomains on a dns suffix | linux | 5 |
| [weaveworks ignite](https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite) | a very cool weaveworks firecracker plugin that turns docker images into virtual machines | linux | 4 (alas, it uses crazy complexy non ipv6 networks) |
| [zellij](https://zellij.dev/) | a VERY nice repacement for tmux | linux | 5 |
| [carbonario](https://docs.zextras.com/carbonio-ce/html/general.html) | single user matrix / twitter replacement | linux | 4 (a little strange to install use the docker image) |
| [archivebox](https://archivebox.io/) | archives remote websites to your local computer for later use offline. | linux | 5 |
| [docker-caddy-proxy](https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy) | lets you use caddy as a proxy for docker services | linux | ? |
| [fcp](https://github.com/refi64/fcp) | lets you copy FAST multiple files with NIM! | linux | ? |
| [uutils](https://uutils.github.io/user/index.html) | coreutils replacement in rus | linux | 4 |
| [mise](https://github.com/jdx/mise?utm_source=cloudseclist.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=CloudSecList-issue-272) | asdf clone written in rust faster but without the searches sadness. | linux | 3.7 |
| [bmap-rs](https://github.com/collabora/bmap-rs) | bmaptool for making sparse images for cloning smaller rust version | linux | ? |
| [helix](https://docs.helix-editor.com/install.html) | Helix, a nice vscode alternative for the shell supports language servers | linux | 4 |
| [ansible-role-qemu](https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-qemu_img) | lets you use ansibel to manage qemu things | linux | ? |
| [chemozi](https://www.chezmoi.io/) | keeps your dotfiles synchronized | linux | 5 |
| [tuc](https://www.linuxlinks.com/tuc-replacement-cut/) | replacement for cut that supports records. | linux | 4 |
| [crane](https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry.git) | copies between container registries like cp | linux | 5 |
| [ruffle](https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle) | flash emulator alas needs java | linux | 3 |
| [scrcopy](https://github.com/briis/hass-weatherflow) | lets you mirror your android screen to your linux box | linux | 5 |
| [halp](https://github.com/orhun/halp) | helps you figure out the help command for a command | linux | 4 |
| [rustpython](https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython) | a python interpreter written in rust. | linux | ? |
| [FLEETDM](https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/fleetdm-get-started) | for managing osquery agents on various systems | linux | 4 |
| [forgejo](https://forgejo.org/) | GITEA fork with a better theme (but no sqlite anymore alas) self hosted git and docker registry | linux | 4.5 |
| [VTM](https://www.linuxuprising.com/2023/03/vtm-is-text-based-desktop-environment.html?m=1) | ext based desktop (really weird but cool) |  |  |
| [HOCUS](https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus) | lets you test software somewhat safely with docker/kvm. Disposable environments on your own servers. Mostly for gitea etc. |  |  |
| [Carbonyl](https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl) | CLI browser with image preview |  |  |
| [mold](https://github.com/rui314/mold) | A semi free linker that is 2x faster than clang or gnu | linux | ? |
| [softgpu](https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu) | gets you a NICe fast gpu in old iwnodws verisons. | linux | ? |
| [localsend](https://localsend.org/#/download) | lets you send things like apple airdrop between computers on the same network | all | 5 |
| [linguist](https://github.com/translate-tools/linguist) | a translator for the browser. lets you choose offline or online options. VERY nice. | all | 5 |
| [xremap](https://github.com/k0kubun/xremap) | keyboard remapper for wayland or x. | all | 5 |
| [stime](https://github.com/fabiensanglard/st) | Space time explorer, -lets you see how much system time, and ticks of cpu something uses. |  | 4 |
| [plato](https://github.com/baskerville/plato) | A replacement for kobo ereader nickel app | alll | 5 |
| [lact](https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT/releases) | amd/ati gpu controller gui |  |  |
| [trippy](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy) | VERY nice traceroute more useful with the following commandline: sudo trip [grav.munn.me](http://grav.munn.me) --dns-lookup-as-info -G /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoLite2-City.mmdb -r cloudflare | all | 5 |
| [qsv](https://github.com/jqnatividad/qsv) | A VERY nice csv slicer and dicer, kind of like jq for csv files | all | 5 |
| [snapraid](https://grav.munn.me/software-i-love/www.snapraid.it) | interesting 'free' disk parity nas thingy. | all | 4 |
| [git-cliff](https://www.git-cliff.org) | makes changelogs from commit history | all | 4 |
| [clightd](https://github.com/FedeDP/Clight) | adjusts display brightness with webcam | all | 4 |
| [complgen](https://github.com/adaszko/complgen) | generates completions automatically. Kind of hard to use | linux | 3 |
| [logscreen](https://github.com/soorajshankar/logScreen/tree/main) | lets you read logs in your browser alas requires npm | linux | 4 |
| [gitu](https://github.com/altsem/gitu.git) | a text user interface for git, rust based | linux | 4 |
| [dwarffs](https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs) | Makes a highly compressed deduplicated read only filesystem. It seems to 'mostly work' but it did core on my system. | linux | 3 |
| [calendarsync](https://github.com/inovex/CalendarSync) | allows you to sync your ical calenars between thieves (er big data suckers) | linux | 5 |
| [ripcalc](https://github.com/RavuAlHemio/ripcalc) | rust version of network calculator | linux | 4 |
| [snapcast](https://github.com/badaix/snapcast) | times playing so everyone starts at the same time think sonos room mustic | linux | 4 |
| [tspin](https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin) | nice syslog / whatever log colorizer and catter. |  |  |
| [mold](https://github.com/rui314/mold) | a FAST linker replacement for linux | linux/mac/window | 5 |
| [vector](https://vector.dev/) | a way to redirect logs or syslogs to various formats. Its kind of a swiss army knife for log processing rules. | linux | 4 |
| [thin-send-recieve](https://github.com/LINBIT/thin-send-recv) | a shellscript to let you send a fs over the network like zfs send. | linux | 4 |
| [stract](https://github.com/StractOrg/stract) | DIY crawler and search engine | linux | 4 |
| [zfind](https://github.com/laktak/zfind) | lets you search for files (inside of archives and normal) using sql | linux | 5 |
| [intel lpmd](https://github.com/intel/intel-lpmd) | intel power management daemon for intel cpus etc. | linux | 4 |
| [coroot](https://github.com/coroot/coroot) | interesting profiling and tracing tools graphical for things like amazon xray | linux | ? |
| [sql-studio](https://github.com/frectonz/sql-studio) | read only database browser for postgresql, mysql and sqlite | linux | 4 |
| [shpool](https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool) | lightweight shell keeper that keeps things going like tmux but lighter. | linux | 4 |
| [uutils](https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/) | gnu core utils rewritten in rust | linux | 4 |
| [ntpd-rs](https://github.com/pendulum-project/ntpd-rs) | NTPD in rust (minus gps stuff sadness!) | linux | 3 |
| [c to posix shell](https://pnut.sh/) | turns c programs into posix shell | linux | 4 |
| [kaskade](https://github.com/sauljabin/kaskade) | text tui for kafka | linux | ? |
| [gsa](https://github.com/Zxilly/go-size-analyzer) | go size analyzer for go binaries | linux | 4 |
| [opener](https://github.com/superbrothers/opener) | allows you to use the magic of ssh tunnelling to open a 'local' browser via ssh. |  |  |
| [azure freebsd installer](https://github.com/davidchisnall/azure-freebsd-minimal) | lets you install freebsd images in azure | azure | 5 |
| [codon makes python non sycky fastifier](https://github.com/exaloop/codon) | basically a static code compiler for fscky poopy python programs. | linux | 3 (since I hate python!) |
| [micro uploader](https://github.com/aziis98/mup) | nice smallish file transfer thingy | multiple | 4 |
| [ab system image manger with systemd](https://x86.lol/generic/2024/08/28/systemd-sysupdate.html) | basically an a/b system manager for linux with systemd |  | ? |
| [tio](https://github.com/tio/tio) | a serial progam for the modern era replaces various telix like programs of the past (minicom/screen) | linux | 4 |
| [hurl](https://hurl.dev/blog/2024/08/29/hurl-5.0.0-the-parallel-edition.html) | multi threaded curl replacement with pretty printing and color coding actually its a testing utility with hurl like text files | linux | 5 |
| [capnProto](https://capnproto.org/) | Nice protobuf replacement | unix | 4 |
| [superlinker](https://github.com/whitequark/superlinker) | basically makes VERY fat static executables out of anything | unix | 4 |
| [rga](https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2019/rga--ripgrep-for-zip-targz-docx-odt-epub-jpg/) | basically a frontend to ripgrep that can search lots of different file types (binary or otherwise) | unix | 5 |
| [libreqos](https://libreqos.io/) | a bufferbloat fighter for making networks happy | unix | 4 |
| [mox](https://www.xmox.nl/install/#hdr-download) | self-hosted email with lots of security feature | unix | 5 |
| [PIPEEXEC](https://github.com/flonatel/pipexec) | FANCY pipe complexy things that does lots of things with unix pipes as a SINGLE process | unix | 4 |
| [drill](https://entropicthoughts.com/announcing-decision-drill) | Lets you and friends make a decision via email | unix | 3 |
| [eternal term](https://eternalterminal.dev/howitworks/) | lets you resume terminals (differnet than tmux) | unix | 4 |
| [agebox](https://github.com/slok/agebox) | a better way to encrypt your git repos | unix | 5 |
| [lact](https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT/releases/tag/v0.7.0) | controls your gpu graphically | unix | 4 |
| [isd](https://github.com/isd-project/isd) | interactive systemd (I do hate systemd, but its a necesary evil) This gives you a TUI to minimize its madness. | unix | 4 |
| [dinit](https://github.com/davmac314/dinit) | alternative init system to systemDeVIL systemd. | unix | ? |
| [blip](https://github.com/apenwarr/blip) | lets you see your latency (put on remote server you are intersted in | web page | 5 |
| [ouch](https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch) | automatic compression figure outer and dohickey | unix | 4 |
| [shot scraper](https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/en/stable/) | lets you automate taking screen shot of a website | unix | 4 |
| [dud](https://kevin-hanselman.github.io/dud/) | basically source code for binary data blobs with git alongside | unix | 4 |
| [caddy-waf](https://github.com/fabriziosalmi/caddy-waf) | a web appliction firewall for my favourite webserver, caddy | unix | 4 |
| [tuios](https://github.com/Gaurav-Gosain/tuios) | a VERY nice modern replacement for tmux. Lets you create windows and move them around with the mouse | ui | 5 |
| [seaweedfs](https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs) | s3 replacement | filesystem | 4 |
| [fnox](https://fnox.jdx.dev/) | secrets manager works with mise | all | 4 |
| [terramaid](https://github.com/RoseSecurity/Terramaid) | lets you draw mermaid diagrams from terraform templates/tfstate | all | 4 |
| [config validator](https://github.com/Boeing/config-file-validator) | supports lots of config options for validation like toml, json etc. | all | 4 |

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