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