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Noteworthy Open-Source Projects

Hestia Control Panel - a minimal, opinionated web services control panel to make self-hosting management a whole lot easier
ShareX - a screen capture, file sharing, and productivity tool
XBackbone - a PHP file manager application that allows for instant file sharing for ShareX and *NIX systems
I’ve recently started using Immich as a photo gallery because I can’t get Xbackbone to work properly through my reverse proxy
Veilid under the auspices of the Veilid Foundation. Some interesting projects based on the Veilid protocol on which to keep an eye are:
- Intersect - a text sharing tool (think Git gists)
- stigmerge - an anonymous, secure, P2P file sharing tool (think secure bit torrent)
- Coagulate - contact and location sharing (think 4Square)
- VeilidChat - point-to-point secure, encrypted chat as a technology demonstrator for the Veilid protocol. Currently in beta, available on Android and iOS (via TestFlight).
WezTerm - A nifty terminal emulator for customizing your Linux terminal windows and being all fancy shmancy
Zellij - another nifty terminal tmux-alike customization tool that allows for floating internal windows!

Alternative Search Engines

Cyberware Search - an SearXNG instance run and maintained by Revengeday
SearXNG - a FOSS metasearch engine, which aggregates other sites’ search results without storing any info about the users
Stract - independent and open search
The Internet Archive - home of the Wayback Machine
Anna’s Archive

Alternative Browser Engines

These are new projects that aren’t either Chromium (Google Chrome), Gecko (Mozilla Firefox), or Safari browser engines. Might be worth watching as they develop.

Servo - Billed as “The embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine”
Ladybird - The Ladybird Browser Initiative, an OSS rendering engine with a browser wrapper that has been built from the ground up with no code taken from any existing browser engine implementation.

I am currently running Librewolf as a daily browser, and using Betterbird (a Thunderbird fork with a bunch of handy add-ons integrated into the base package) for handling multiple email accounts in one place.

Personal Tech Stack

Software I used on the daily to either serve content or GSD.

Quartz 4.0 - A website generator designed to work with Obsidian (which is how this site was built)
Obsidian - Powerful markdown editor and composer. The basic software is free (as are a good number of plugins and themes) with pay-for-play add-ons and services.
Ubuntu Linux - A decent “starter” linux for those that don’t want to (or can’t) get too technical. Yes, that’s what I’m running at home. No, I don’t want to hear your opinions on it. You do you, omae.
MacOS Ventura (Intel MBP reverse proxy) and Sequoia (M1 Silicon)
Nginx for all my web serving and reverse proxying needs for self-hosting
Strawberry Music Player - a full-featured and pretty music player for all of your archived and owned local tracks (which can also hook into Last.fm and others)
Mullvad VPN - a simple, effective, quantum-secure, and cheap VPN solution that uses either WireGuard or OpenVPN to secure your traffic, for as little as €5/month
I run zsh with OhMyZsh and Powerlevel10K as the theming engine
Source Control: I work on stuff in Github, GitLab, and run my own Forgejo server for personal projects
Long time user and supporter of IntelliJ IDEA and many other IDEs in the fine JetBrains family of development products
Plex Media Server for home entertainment
Docker for containerization (primarily for Immich and my personal ELK stack which is not yet quite up and running)
Nextcloud - self-hosted file sharing and more!

Software Development Stuff

This is all stuff that I’ve worked with over the years in my software development career.

Primary Languages: Java (including Spring Boot, Hibernate, Lombok, and JUnit), PHP, Typescript/Javascript
Tangential languages: Rust, Python, C/C++ (but oh boy, it’s been a while)
Search engines: Apache Solr and Elasticsearch
Databases: MySql, Postgres, MongoDB, Neo4j, Databricks, Snowflake
AWS Cloud Services: if you name it, I’ve probably looked at it at least once
Infrastructure as Code: AWS CloudFormation, CDK, Docker, Kubernetes