Useful Links
These are Resources I find useful, professionally and for my homelab and hobbies.
Woodworking:
Cutlist optimizer Opticutter
Homelab Resources:
Jekyll (Static Site Generator) that this site is built on jekyll
Letsencrypt Lets Encrypt
Nextcloud Cloud Suite NextCloud
Immich Image Backup Immich
Home Assistant Home Automation Manegement: Home Assistant
Pi-Hole DNS ad blocking & local DNS Pi-Hole
TNG Geneology Site Bulding Software TNGSitebuilding
Nginx Proxy Manager (Docker Based NGINX with web GUI) NGINX Proxy Manager
Gitlab, Project Manegment, also hosts this website with Gitlab Pages. Gitlab
Jellyfin Open Source Media Server Jellyfin
Plex Media Server. For me, increased reliablity, included live TV support and remote access, make paying for Plex make sense. Plex
Portainer Docker Management Portainer
Proxmox Virtual Machine Hypervisor. At one time I used VMware esxi, but transitioned off before the Broadcom takecover removed free licesces due to difficulty updating. Proxmox
Apache Guacamole: Remote desktop or terminal, from the browser Apache Guacamole
Network UPS Tools: NUT Server NUT Server
Cloudflare. This site uses several cloudflare products, DNS, R2 CDN, and domain registar. Cloudflare
Microsoft PowerToys PowerToys
Microsoft SysInternals Sysinternals
Davinci Resolve: Freeware video editing software (For Mac or Windows) DaVinci Resolve
Converseen: Picture file type converter. (Can convert HEIC to PNG or JPG, PDF, etc) Converseen
FileZilla: FTP client FileZilla
Handbrake: Video Transcoder / Converter Handbrake
Nirsoft Windows Utilities: Nirsoft
Putty Windows Terminal Software: Putty
OBS Studio: screen capture software: OBS Studio
Spyder: Matlab-like Python IDE for scientific use Spyder
3D Printing
Freecad: FreeCad
Octoprint: Web based 3D printer Controller Octoprint
Utilimaker Cura: 3D Printer slicer Cura
Thingverse: STL sharing site Thingverse
Professional Resources:
OSFMount is a tool that allows mounting binary or .iso files as removable disks in Windows OSFmount
Clonezilla is a bootable linux tool for imaging PC’s. I use this to image IPC HMI PC’s with a consistent Windows enviroment. Clonezilla
Passmark USB Imager (Twin software with OSFmount for creating images from USB sticks) USB Imager
PDF24 Creator: PDF toolbox for editing, OCR, inserting / extracting pages, etc PDF24 Creator
Agent Ransack: Advanced windows search tool Agent Ransack
Frhed: Binary file editor Frhed
Gimp: Open Source Image Editor Gimp
Inkscape: Vector Image Editor Inkscape
Wireshark: Network packet monitor Wireshark
ShareNot: Screen capcture client, fork of ShareX that does not have cloud upload capabilities. ShareNot
UaExpert: Unified Automation OPC UA Client UaExpert
WinMerge: Windows file comparison utility WinMerge
SQLIte Compare Utility: SQLite Compare
DBBrowser for SQLite: DBBrowser
WinDirStat: Windows Disk Usage Utility WinDirStat
TightVNC: Open Source VNC Server / Viewer for Windows TightVNC