A collection of neat software and general tools that could, maybe, be useful.
This will help me remember all the cool things I find (and remember what they were).
I have a lot of tools I’ve forgotten which will likely be added to this page, but if I remembered them all at a moments notice, what would the point of this page really be?
AI
n8n - Workflow Automation with AI Integrations, I run this from my ancient Pi 3B with ease.
ollama - Lightweight AI-model runtime, useful for quickly spinning up a model and experimenting.
Networking
Wireshark - Network/Packet analyzer. A must-have for any type of server development, as it’s a powerful debugging tool.
BurpSuite - I still have a good bit to learn about this tool, but generally it lets you intercept, modify, and forward http traffic. Super neat tool.
Postman - I thought it was overkill for testing APIs, but it actually has a nice amount of features. Still, basically a way of sending junk to APIs with a nice GUI.
Media
FFmpeg - Awesome tool for manipulating media files, supports recording, conversion, all kinds of stuff. I’ve processed many mp4 files with this.
yt-dlp - This is one I haven’t used, but have been saving for a rainy day. Lets you download videos off the web, supports many sites but again, haven’t tried it yet.
Web
Quartz - The thing I’m using to write and generate this content. Great if you already love MD files + Obsidian (Obsidian totally optional)