Impactful Articles

• The Art of Not Sharing by Joan Westenberg
  • helped inspire me to leave social media as well as to start journaling and meeping
• The Creator-Monk Path by Joan Westenberg
  • inspired me to orient myself towards writing small things, not chasing billions
  • reminded me that writing things for fun and to help people its its own reward

Awesome organizations

•  KDE (most known for making Plasma Desktop)
•  Open Source Initiative
• Electronic Frontier Foundation

Concepts and Philosophies

• Copyright: 󱤹 Copyleft
• Philosophies: IndieWeb and Small Web

Helpful sites

• Alternatives: AlternativeTo
  • but libhunt and OpenSourceAlternativesTo both seems cool
• Open Source License Helpers: tl;drLegal or ChooseALicense
• Coding answers:  StackOverflow

Licenses

• Open Software License
  • My favorite copyleft license
• 󰵫 Creative Commons
  • Best licenses for non-code content
• Unlicense
  • Essentially public domain
• Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (aka WTFPL)
  • heheh

Programming Languages/Runtimes/etc

• 󱘗 Rust
•  TypeScript
•  Deno
•  Bun
•  Haxe
• 󰢱 Lua
• Typesetter:  Typst

Web Dev

I am not a web developer, pretty sure that shows. But I do web dev anyway, when necessary.

• Nerd Fonts
  • has a very useful cheat sheet

Hardware

This is the hardware that I currently use and can recommend, unless noted otherwise

• Mobile phone: Fairphone 4 (discontinued 😭 )
• Board:  Raspberry Pi
  • Arduino is also very cool
• Laptop:  Framework 16
  • I can no longer recommend Framework products due to their sponsorship of projects run by grossly immoral people
    • Instead, while I have not actually owned one, I recommend System76, which was my second choice

Web Services

If it's in this list, it's most likely not self-hosted and likely proprietary. Sometimes that's necessary. For me, anyway. You do you.

• VPN Service: Proton VPN
• Static Site Hosting Service: Orbiter
• Domain Name Registrar: Namecheap
  • but shoutout to 1984
• VoIP Service: JMP.chat
• E-book Store: Bookshop.org (formerly IndieBound)
  • Supports indie book stores with each purchase! You can even choose which one!
  • Run by a B-Corporation
  • Sells some DRM-free e-books
  • Only readable on Android using its app 🫤
• LLM: Proton Lumo

Social Networking

While I do not do social networking anymore, these are ones I recommend, if you feel so inclined.

• Microblogging:  Mastodon
• Book tracker: Bookwyrm

Software

Unless otherwise noted, generally everything I use and recommend is open source.

Operating Systems

• Desktop: Nyarch Linux :3
  • Other notable mentions:
    • 󰣇 Arch Linux (x86, arm, raspberry pi)
    • Chimera Linux (x86)
    •  Pop_OS! (x86)
    •  elementary OS (x86, arm, raspberry pi)
• Phone: /e/OS
  • a fork of LineageOS

Personal Cloud

Check out the project dedicated to My Cloud.

Desktop Software

All of these are cross platform (Linux, macOS, Windows) unless otherwise noted

• Desktop Environment:  Plasma Desktop
  • Linux only
• Code Editor: Zed
• Web Browser:  Ungoogled Chromium
• Terminal: Ghostty
  • Not available on Windows
• Media Player: 󰕼 VLC
• VS Code fork:  VS Codium
• Image Editor:  GIMP
• File Transfer:  FileZilla
• E-Book Reader + Library: Readest
• Git Client: SourceGit
• API Client: Bruno
• Diff Tool: Meld

macOS Software

These help make it livable.

• Package Manager:  Homebrew

Windows Software

Thankfully I rarely have to spend any time in Windows at all, but here are my faves when I do. (Also, many of the software above are cross platform!)

• Disk Usage Analyzer: WinDirStat
• Archive Manager: 7-Zip
• Automation: Autohotkey
• Nirsoft
  • a massive collection of freeware written by one guy!
  • Inspired me a lot when I was young

TUI Software

Links are shamelessly to tui.land

• Text Editor: helix
• E-mail: aerc
• Signal: gurk
• Clock: tenki and tuime
• Disk Usage Analyzer: diskonaut and ncdu
• Launcher: sunbeam
• File transfer: termscp
• Screensavers: ttysvr
• ANSI Art Generator: tuilet
• Mastodon: tut
• One Time Password: andcli

CLI Software

• Source Management: 󰊢 Git
• Shell: fish
  • and fisher as a plugin manager
  • and fish_logo for the sweet ASCII-art logo
• Binary installer: Distillery
• Disk Usage: dust
• System Info: fastfetch
• Compression: ouch
• Search: ripgrep
• Code Counting: scc
  • shoutout to tokei
• Data Recoverty: testdisk

Mobile Apps

• Proton's apps
  • Mail, Calendar, Drive, VPN, Pass, Lumo
• /e/ Foundation's mobile apps
  • Browser,fork of Bromite
  • Message, fork of QKSMS
  • Contacts, fork of LineageOS Contacts
  • Calendar, fork of Etar
    • Technically do not use anymore but can still recommmend
  • Mail, fork of Thunderbird for Android
  • Maps, rebranding of MagicEarth (Note: Proprietary, the only app in /e/ that is)
    • Murena Maps looks promising, but very early days
•  F-Droid Client: Droid-ify
  • Special shoutout to Foxydroid
• 󰊼 Google Play Client: Aurora Store
• Google Play Services: microG
• Keyboard: Heliboard
  • shoutout to ThumbKey, which I wish I had the patience to learn
• Secure Messaging: Molly
  • a hardened fork of Signal
• Most Secure Messaging: Briar
• 󰦯 One Time Password: Aegis Authenticator
• Reminder Helper: p!n
• E-Book Reader: Readest
  • shoutout to Libby which is a proprietary app for reading library e-books
    • but can also just be installed as a PWA and works great!
•  Feed Reader: Capy Reader
• Local Media Player: 󰕼 VLC
• Audiobook Player: Voice
• Podcast Player: AntennaPod
• Subsonic Client: Tempus
• Codeberg/Forgejo Client: GitNex
•  Mastodon Client: Tusky
•  YouTube Client: LibreTube
• Bittorrent Client: LibreTorrent
• Find Lost Device: Locate My Device
• 󰱰 Emoticon Chooser: emotic
• Song Identifier: Audire
• Desktop Access: KDE Connect
  • Requires KDE Connect be installed on the desktop as well
  • GSConnect is a GNOME-compatible version of the protocol
• Mobile Access: PlainApp
• Wallpapers: WallFlow
• Profile data transfer: InterProfileSharing
• App Privacy Monitor: TrackerControl
• Jabber Client: Cheogram
  • I used with JMP.chat
• Git-powered File Sync: GitSync

Misc Software

Stuff that doesn't quite fit into the above categories

• Static Site Generator: Zola

Gaming

• itch.io
• 󰮡gog
• 󰓓 Steam
  • while I dislike the licensing nature, I still have a backlog from many years of sales
• Athenaeum
  • which I have not really used but have to give a shoutout to; "a libre replacement for Steam" (i.e. libre-only games)

Open Source Games

• The Battle for Wesnoth
• Endless Sky
• Mari0
• StepMania
• Frets on Fire
• VVVVVV (open-sourced for its 10-year anniversary!)