Useful software

2024-11-10: RSS as a method of subscribing to your favourite online content is not dead, and thanks to its open …

2024-10-22: Currently trying out a combo of FreshRSS and NetNewsWire to experience the joy (?) of aggregating, …

2024-10-22

Why you should ditch social media for a (micro)blog: Yes, I’m a big fan of both the general concept and the specific product Aaron mentions.

2024-10-16

You should be using an RSS reader: RSS is great (& Cory Doctorow uses Newsblur for it).

2024-10-10

The Essential Tools for Exploratory Analysis: The types of tools one might want at hand when engaging in exploratory data analysis.

2024-10-06

Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh: Never really thought about customising my command line much before but now I’m probably going to waste half of tomorrow doing so.

2024-10-02: When it comes to listening to podcasts I’m a big Pocket Casts user. Whilst it has a …

2024-09-28

Moving to Pika: In which a post about changing blog hosts turns out to be full of commentary on coping with the exhausting conditions of modern existence.

2024-09-18: 10015 is a useful website containing a ton of quick little web tools that handle a set of fairly …

2024-09-11: Save videos, photos and audio from your favourite sites with Cobalt

2024-09-08: UniGetUI is a handy GUI for Winget and other Windows package managers

2024-07-25: Rainbow CSV is an extension for VSCode that makes working with CSV fields in that editor a lot more …

2024-07-23: JAM Software’s TreeSize app is a handy Windows utility to quickly visualise which of your …

2024-06-26: free-for.dev is a great list of free-tier cloud service tools for developers

2024-04-27: Remove DRM from Amazon Kindle books with Calibre

2023-09-06: MusicBrainz Picard fixes your musical MP3 tagging woes

2023-07-11: The 'Redact' app lets you delete all those social media posts that you regret writing

2023-06-04: Rclone looks to be a super useful utility for anyone who works a lot with cloud storage providers. …

2022-12-10: The iOS Kindle app has finally made it easy to send an article from your iDevice to your hardware …

2022-10-12: Otavio Cordeiro just released an Obsidian plugin called Micro.publish that lets you post directly to …

2022-06-15: Matter, one of my favourite apps for storing things I intend to read later - articles, PDFs, tweets …