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# Absozero's tools, apps, and resources

![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)



[oss]: ./assets/OSS.svg

[free]: ./assets/free.svg



A whole knowledge base to take inspiration out of!



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A multitude of tools and apps, as well as other resources showing where I am personally and acting somewhat as a knowledge base for my usage.



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All of these tools and/or resources are open source unless specified

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| Open source software  | Free software       | Personally Recommended software |

|     :---------:       | :-----------------: | :----------------------------: |

| Symbol:               | Symbol:             | Symbol:                        |

|![ossoft][oss]         |![frees][free]       |🌟                              |






## Contents



- [Bookmarks](#bookmarks)

- [Desktop Apps](#desktop-apps)

- [Frameworks](#frameworks)

- [Linux command-line](#command-line---linux)

- [Operating systems](#operating-systems)

- [Platforms and tools](#platforms-and-tools)

- [Selfhosted services](#selfhosted-apps)

- [Videos](#videos)

- [Websites](#websites)

- [Follow](#follow)



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## Bookmarks

[Table of Contents](#contents)



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### Project-based-learning + Ideas



- [Project based learning](https://github.com/practical-tutorials/project-based-Learning) - A list of example projects that can be hacked upon to create an application.



- [Projects](https://github.com/karan/Projects) - A list of example projects that can be made and customized by a user



- [Build your own x](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x) - A tool that helps you learn to program with tutorials for building projects



- [App Ideas](https://github.com/florinpop17/app-ideas) - A list of ideas to make an app to serve to users.



- [Open source ideas](https://github.com/open-source-ideas/ideas) - A list of ideas people advertise to check out and take inspiration from.



### Learning resources



- [Ebookfoundation ebooks](https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/) - A list of free ebooks to study and learn from.



- [Roadmaps](https://roadmap.sh) - Roadmaps for multiple developer paths



- [TheAlgorithms](https://the-algorithms.com) - Algorithm practice and studies for developers and programmers



- [Awesome lists](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) - Lists about many interesting and explorable topics.



## Desktop apps

[Table of Contents](#contents)



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- [Antimicrox](https://github.com/AntiMicroX/antimicroX) - Assign game controller input to keys on the computer.



- [Blender](https://blender.org) - A piece of free and open source software that enables a full pipeline for people wanting to build useful items with 3d in computing,

and also has vfx and video editing built in.



- [Bottles](https://usebottles.com/) - Software that is helping manage windows software running on linux with a great GUI.



- [gimp](https://gimp.org) - A free and open source replacement to photoshop. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Godot](https://godotengine.org) - A free and open source game engine that allows to create both 2d and 3d games intuitively.



- [Lmms](https://lmms.io) - A DAW with advanced features for power users, fully open source and free.



- [Logseq](https://logseq.com) - A knowledge base creation application that will help to streamline ideas and parts of daily work to make accessing the knowledge easier.



- [OBS Studio](https://obsproject.org) - A popular open source tool to record and stream customizable video recordings.



- [Rawtherapee](http://rawtherapee.com/) - A great RAW editor and open source alternative to Lightroom



- [Responsively](https://responsively.app/) - A must-have tool for developers that enables simple and easy testing for multiple device types



- [Shotcut](https://www.shotcut.org/) - A video editor that is built for heavy users and is open to the public for easy use.



- [VSCodium](https://vscodium.com/) - A fully open source liscenced and usable build of VSCode, which by default has closed-source binaries ![ossoft][oss] 🌟



- [vlc](https://www.videolan.org/vlc) - A media player for multiple platforms, with support for local and remote video and audio.



- [Xournalpp](https://xournalpp.github.io) - A pdf editor that allows for custom annotations on top of a pdf canvas.

## Frameworks

[Table of Contents](#contents)



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- [Bash-it](https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it) - A full featured bash frameworks that comes with batteries and a plugin system out of the box. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Oh-my-bash](https://github.com/ohmybash/oh-my-bash) - Another bash framework which tries to replicate oh-my-zsh for bash. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Pocketbase](https://pocketbase.io/) - Database in a file



## Command line - Linux

[Table of Contents](#contents)



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- [Act](https://github.com/nektos/act) - Run github actions locally



- [Algernon](https://algernon.roboticoverlords.org/) - An open sourve web sever with rendering markown and much more out of the box.



- [aria2](https://github.com/aria2/aria2) - A command line downloader with fast speeds ![ossoft][oss] 🌟



- [Bat](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) - A cat alternative with syntax highlighting and much more. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Broot](https://github.com/Canop/broot) - A modern `tree` alternative, with many more features than its predecessor. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Cava](https://github.com/karlstav/cava) - A audio visualizer for the terminal, with loads of features ![ossoft][oss]



- [Chezmoi](https://chezmoi.io) - A dotfile manager with a high number of features and tools to make managing dotfiles easy ![ossoft][oss] 🌟



- [Cheat.sh](https://cheat.sh) - A cheatsheet source that can be accessed from the cli, that provides a massive cheatsheet library from multiple sources. Works best from a unix-like os, but can be used with curl/wget/httpie



- [Cmus](https://cmus.github.io/) - A command line music player. Does its 1 job extremely well, following the UNIX philosophy. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Croc](https://github.com/schollz/croc) - An open source solution to transfer files quickly and easily between systems, and a relay is very easily self-hostable.



- [Delta](https://github.com/dandavison/delta) - A tool to see differences between text files. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Duf](https://github.com/muesli/duf) - A df alternative that is fast and informative. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Dust](https://github.com/bootandy/dust) - An alternative to du to see storage usage. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Exa](https://github.com/ogham/exa) - A fast and modern alternative for the `ls` command. ![ossoft][oss]



- [fd](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) - A modern alternative to the find command. ![ossoft][oss]



- [ffmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org) - A extremely useful console application to work with videos and audio.



- [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) - A fuzzy finder that can be used in many environments, from vim to cd'ing ![ossoft][oss]



- [gh](https://cli.github.com) - The official github cli. Now you can use github without even opening a browser! ![ossoft][oss] 🌟



- [git](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git) - An amazing and highly used version control system. ![ossoft][oss] 🌟



- [gitui](https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui) - A command line git gui



- [Glow](https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow) - A markdown renderer for the command line.



- [Gping](https://github.com/orf/gping) - Ping with a graph. Exponentially better than regular ping in many cases. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Hyperfine](https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine) - An insane benchmarking tool to compare speeds . ![ossoft][oss]



- [Httpie](https://github.com/httpie/httpie) - An http client meant to be used with api's. Also look at [curlie](https://github.com/rs/curlie) for a more curl-like product, and [xh](https://github.com/ducaale/xh) for sending requests. ![ossoft][oss] 🌟 



- [jq](https://github.com/stedolan/jq) - A parser for all things json ![ossoft][oss]



- [json-server](https://github.com/typicode/json-server) - A cool way to set up a local mock json api for use to mock a real API.



- [miniserve](https://github.com/svenstaro/miniserve) - Serve files over http quickly!



- [Modern-unix-commands](https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix) - A set of modern linux alternatives for older commands.



- [Mpv](https://mpv.io/) - This tool is almost like VLC, but for the cli, in the sense that it can play most of everything you throw at it, even [twitch](https://twitch.tv) streams, and even supports ascii output! ![ossoft][oss]



- [Pdm](https://pdm.fming.dev) - A python dependency manger with support for pyproject.toml, a modern alternative for setup.py



- [Onefetch](https://github.com/o2sh/onefetch) - Neofetch, but for git repositories.



- [Pastel](https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel) - Manipulate and edit colors on the cli



- [Poetry](https://python-poetry.org/) - A depnedency manager for python that is miles ahead of pip or other apps.



- [Radare2](https://rada.re/n/radare2.html) - A tool that is more than a hex editor, a full fledged cli debugger. 



- [Restic](https://restic.net) - A cross platform backup system with many features regarding security and general use.![ossoft][oss] 🌟



- [Ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) - Modern alternative to grep. It is much faster than what it tries to replace. ![ossoft][oss]



- [sd](https://github.com/chmln/sd) - A modern alternative to what sed has to offer. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Soft-serve](https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve) - A selfhosted git server accessible from the terminal.



- [Taskwarrior](https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior) - A streamlined task manager on the cli. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Tealdeer](https://dbrgn.github.io/tealdeer/) - A client for the tldr pages that uses a cache approach, and allows for offline use and custom pages, making it my personal favorite tldr client. 🌟



- [Timg](https://github.com/hzeller/timg) - An ascii image and GIF viewer for the command line, with many options to enhance viewing. ![ossoft][oss]



- [tldr](https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr) - A simpler to read and easier to read community-based alternative to manpages ![ossoft][oss]



- [Tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux) - A very useful terminal multiplexer to multitask as well as improve productivity. ![ossoft][oss] 🌟



  - [Tmuxinator](https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator) - An addon that allows you to manage projects and open a full environment quickly. ![ossoft][oss]



  [tokei](https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei) - Show stats about code, quickly



- [Topgrade](https://github.com/r-darwish/topgrade) - A full command line update system ![ossoft][oss]



- [VHS](https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs) - Terminal recorder with configuration rather than recording.



- [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) - An awesome alternative to yt-dlp with a lot of improvements, and even sponsorblock support 🌟



- [Zoxide](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide) - A modern alternative to `cd` that allows for quick movement and remembering directories. ![ossoft][oss]



## Operating systems



[Table of Contents](#contents)



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- [Linux](https://linux.org) - Technically a kernel, but in this context I use it(gnu/linux) to describe the underlying system under many free and open source distributions of linux. ![ossoft][oss] 🌟



  - [Fedora](https://fedora.org) - A open source distribution built on linux, and combines both stability and the bleeding edge. ![ossoft][oss]



## Platforms and tools

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- [Distrobox](https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox) - A tool used to spin up multiple operating systems with access to your home sirectory and leverages container technologies like podman and docker to do so.



- [Docker](https://docker.com) - A open tool for containerization, to run applications on multiple places the same. ![frees][free] 🌟



  - [Portainer](https://portainer.io) - Simply, a web ui for docker, but is extremely feature rich, to the level that docker cli is no more necessary when this tool is used. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Podman](https://podman.io/) - Another container manager, known as podman, that uses a non-root system with no daemon and a focus on the lifetime of containers.



- [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) - An open-source tool to provision reproducible isolated development environments using a variety of backend providers.



## Selfhosted apps

[Table of Contents](#contents)



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- [Uptime-kuma](https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma) - A selfhostable uptime monitor ![ossoft][oss] 🌟



- [Phpmyadmin](https://www.phpmyadmin.net/) - Manage mysql/mariadb db's easily!



## Videos

[Table of Contents](#contents)



- [Introduction to programming and CS basics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjov-2OZ0E) - A good video about the basics of CS, a great reference video.



## Websites

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- [Draw.io](https://app.diagrams.net/) - An open source whiteboard and diagramming tool that I use to plan projects and sketch outlines.



- [Excalidraw](https://excalidraw.com) - An open source web whiteboard. I personally use it for notes.



- [Farside](https://farside.link) - A redirection service that allows to load balance and choose between multiple privacy friendly alternative frontends



- [Free-prog-books](https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books) - A resource to find free books relating to tech. ![ossoft][oss] 🌟



- [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/) - A news source for tech and other related topics. `closed source` ![frees][free]



- [Carbon](https://carbon.now.sh/) - A tool to make beautiful pictures of code. ![ossoft][oss] 🌟



- [Github1s](https://github1s.com) - A tool to show the structure of github repositories, as if viewing them in VSCode. ![ossoft][oss]



- [Cloud Shell](https://shell.cloud.google.com/?pli=1&show=ide%2Cterminal) - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟



- [gitpod](https://gitpod.io) - A cloud dev environment to build a place to code in in no time! ![ossoft][oss] 🌟



- [Tldraw](https://www.tldraw.com/) - Another open source whiteboard app with a simpler overall model.



## Follow

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[Follow me on my platforms](https://linktr.ee/Absozero)



## Contributing

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[Contributions of any kind welcome, just follow the guidelines](contributing.md)!



### Contributors

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[Thanks goes to these contributors](https://github.com/absozero/tools-n-apps/graphs/contributors)! <--