Utility

Just filling a void and streamlining the scanning process for an HP all-in-one. Set this up and you have a button to click anytime to fetch a scanned image from your HP MFP. (Sorry, macos only)

A watch face for Pebble themed for jeepfolk. The Pebble watch was sadly assimilated and disposed of by Fitbit, but if you get your hands on one this watch face still works like it did back in 2014 when I wrote it. Customizable colors and time displayed in digital, binary or morse code formats.

This Slack plugin adds a slash command enabling team members to give public recognition at any time, in any channel (usually one relative to what is being recognized) and then delivers a week end digest of all the great things the team members have accomplished. While a simple concept, there was a lot of thought into enabling recoginition without creating competition or other potential negative side effects.

That coffee house we all love to hate and hate to love got my order wrong one too many times. So I put this together to generate labels for my "personal cup" and those I know (and order coffee for). It turns out if your cup is already labeled (properly) you not only increase your chances of getting the beverage you seek, you also get through the ordering phase faster.

A quick way to recursively look through images and videos in a directory structure.

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.

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

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

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 mail server

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!

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.

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.

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

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

Validate standard 5- and 6-field cron expressions, inspect each field, read a plain-language summary, and preview upcoming run times in your chosen timezone.

Test regular expressions against sample text with support for JavaScript, PCRE, grep BRE, grep ERE, Python, and POSIX-style flavors, plus notes on which languages use which implementation.

Inspired by countless conversations over my career about what information every website you visit actually knows about you, here is a brief example of information my web server knows about you and your connection with just a few lines of code. This is just the tip of the iceberg compared to what trackers (website plugins which follow you from one website to another running analytics on your browser behavior) know about you.