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Open-source, privacy-first authenticator and password manager. No account required, tokens stay on your device, and backups are under your control. A solid alternative to the big-name 2FA apps that want your phone number and a cloud account.

Open-source podcast player for Android. Subscribe to any RSS feed, download episodes for offline listening, and keep your subscriptions under your control — no account, no ads in the app, and no commercial interest steering what you hear.

A collection of tools that come in handy - the image encoder is pretty helpful for embedding images.

You have an image, but you need it in a ton of version for a mobile or macos app - couple seconds here and your done!

A simple cross-platform tool for flashing OS images to SD cards and USB drives with validation built in.

A cross-platform password manager with open source clients, secure vault sharing, passkeys, and self-hosting options.

For when you don't want all that bloat but you need a navbar with a dropdown.

A privacy-focused web browser with built-in tracker blocking, Chromium compatibility, and optional privacy-preserving search and rewards features.

Encrypted video calls right in the browser — no app install required. Free for up to four people, with optional premium tiers for larger meetings. A handy option when you want a quick private call without handing everyone a Zoom account.

An open source photography workflow app and raw developer for managing digital negatives and non-destructive photo editing.

Need to make a flowchart or diagram real quick?

Simple, fast and just powerful enough web based diagramming tool with sharing functionality. Open source so you can host it yourself and protect your data, access and backups to your hearts content. The keyboard shortcut tool switching is what really makes the this the best option for visually communicating concepts.

Nowadays you need a whole set of favicons for your creations. This tool takes one image and does all the work. It's surprising how many "favicon generators" are still online and only give you 16 and 32 pixel icons.

Google's open source UI toolkit for building compiled applications across mobile, web, desktop, and embedded platforms from a shared codebase.

Validating email addresses is much more difficult than one would think until they have attempted to do so. Over the last 10 years or so anytime I have the need I consult this page first.

A free and open source vector graphics editor for illustrations, diagrams, icons, logos, and SVG artwork.

An API client for designing, testing, debugging, and documenting REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and other HTTP-based services.

It's like FontAwesome only slightly better looking IMO <del>and insanely easier to add to</del>. As of v5 this is no longer a fonticon set but instead a dynamic JIT javascript SVG loader. I keep the reference here because it's still a decent icon set and v4 is still available in github if you're looking for a customized/customizable fonticon collection.

Another priceless macos utility. It puts a calendar in your system tray for immediately access whenever you need it. There's a similar yet delusionally priced app in the app store, but this one is open source and free to use.

Maintenance check for your email domain DNS settings to ensure deliverability. This one checks your email domain appears publicly to be configured correctly. It's a good reference to check routinely to ensure DNS changes don't break your email setup. When setting up or changing email configurations/providers the Mail Tester utility is a more complete test with an actual email transaction.

Very nice tool to check your email deliverability. You send one email from your email provider and it does a full check to see if your domain, DNS and email provider are configured correctly to be trusted by receiving email servers across the internet.

Fast, free online mind mapping.

Bundles Vue into a complete development and build framework with a ton of options on how it's deployed to production. Comes out of the box with code splitting, live reloading, debugging tools, etc. Everything you need to fast prototyping without forgetting your project needs to be eventually deployed to production. In credibly powerful and I just can't imagine I'll ever roll a Vue app from scratch again.

Super powerful and extendable note taking/e-journaling app. It's closed source but you get all the local features for free. Infinitely customizable with a modular plugin architecture. Paid accounts get syncing between devices.

Despite the increased speed and bandwith of all connected things, the speed at which your site or app loads is more important today than ever. This google utility is always a good tool to check your work!

A developer platform focused on building and evaluating AI systems with more reliable, measurable behavior.

An open source container engine for building, running, and managing OCI containers and pods without requiring a daemon.

Enable visitors to your home or office to connect to your wifi without a keyboard at all. Kind of fantastic! My only suggestion would be to add title, and text credential options ... and maybe stamping an image in the middle, but you can do that offline. For the security concerned it runs in the browser so the server (and network) do not see your credentials. For the real security concerned he spells out how to create the same QR code offline with a QR generator of your choice.

Organize your windows in macos. An ideal replacement for the now abandoned Spectacle app, this little utility makes moving your windows around, snapping them to a side or corner, splitting your screen between 2 or 3 windows - all a breeze. I now find it is one of the first apps I install on a new machine.

A native macOS database client for MySQL and MariaDB, continuing the spirit of Sequel Pro.

Steve Gibson's long-running internet vulnerability profiler. Probes your public IP from the outside to show open ports, firewall behavior, and what attackers can actually see — no install, no account, and still one of the fastest ways to sanity-check a router or home network.

End-to-end encrypted messaging, voice, and video calls without ads, trackers, or a parent company mining your conversations. Run by a nonprofit and funded by donations rather than your data. The default recommendation when someone asks how to talk privately.

This is as bare bones as a CSS framework can be. If your needs are just enough to want a (prebuilt) grid system but nothing more this is a great starting point.

Steve Gibson's legendary hard-drive maintenance and data recovery utility from GRC. Boots from its own media and works down at the magnetic surface to test, refresh, and often recover sectors that the OS has given up on — the kind of tool you hope you never need until you really, really do.

How to setup your Sublime Text as a Go development environment

A fresh take on frontend development that shifts much of the framework work into the compiler, producing small, fast apps with a simple authoring experience.

The problem with all CSS frameworks is they prescribe to one degree or another an overall layout and design. Picking the right one is generally a challenge of finding one that meets the needs and goals of your application or site. I would argue Tailwind is not in fact a framework at all but rather a toolbox of unopinionated utilities from which you can build your own framework.

A free and open source media player that handles a huge range of audio and video formats across platforms.

Quickly spot-check any USB mass storage drive for fraudulent deliberately missing storage. Fraudulent USB/SD storage being sold through trusted marketplaces has exploded and using/trusting a bad drive can have immediate horrible consequences. Use this utility to CYA!

A privacy-focused AI chat and image generation platform that keeps prompts and conversations from being used to train centralized models.

Minimal, open-source audiobook player for Android built around your own files. Point it at a folder of M4B or MP3 audiobooks and it handles resume positions, bookmarks, sleep timer, playback speed, and chapter navigation — no account, no ads, no cloud sync required.

A self-hostable read-it-later app for saving articles, cleaning up the reading experience, and keeping your reading list under your own control.

There a few new tools out there to mock up wireframes quickly. I ran through several options and found this one to be by far the simplest and easiest to use. Free for one offs, or pay for more features and an account to store them in.

A fast, collaborative code editor built by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, with a focus on performance, modern tooling, and AI-assisted development.