Obvious disclaimer – the links on this page will take you to external sites.

A 🌟 indicates a stronger recommendation.

Software

Bitwarden 🌟
Open-source password manager.

Debian GNU/Linux 🌟
My favourite operating system. I do also use Fedora.

FreeCAD
Open-source parametric 3D CAD modeller that I use to plan personal projects. I also use Sketchup.

Obsidian 🌟
A note-taking app that uses markdown files stored locally on your computer.

Syncthing 🌟
An open-source file synchronisation tool that I use to keep local files in sync across different devices.

Ventoy 🌟
Ventoy is an open-source tool for creating bootable USB drives. Rather than reformatting the drive each time you can put multiple ISOs on a single drive and boot to any of them from a menu.

Auto Hot Key 🪟 🌟
“The ultimate automation scripting language for Windows”. Useful for many things. Here’s my old script for some examples.

CTT Windows Utility 🪟 🌟
A useful tool for configuring Windows devices. From Chris Titus Tech on YouTube.

Directory Opus 🪟 🌟
An absurdly customisable replacement for the Windows File Explorer. Not free. I was happy to pay for it as a Windows user, it also has a free trial.

Nirsoft 🪟
A collection of small and useful freeware utilities for Windows, developed by Nir Sofer.

Fan Control 🪟
Fan control software for Windows.

Web Tools

Adblock Tester 🌟
A website for testing the effectiveness of your browser’s ad blocking capabilities.

DuckDuckGo AI Chat 🌟
Anonymous access to popular AI models, including GPT-4o mini, Claude 3, Llama 3.1 and Mixtral.

Emailnator 🌟
A disposable email service. I use it for signing up to websites that I would rather not give my real email address to.

Enhancer for Youtube 🌟
Chrome Web Store / Firefox Add-on
A browser extension that adds a lot of useful features to YouTube. I use it to remove comment sections and automatically expand video descriptions.

Extensity
Chrome Web Store
A browser extension for quickly enabling and disabling other browser extensions. Not available on Firefox because the API doesn’t allow extensions to disable each other.

Gamepad Tester
A website for testing whether your controller is working correctly.

Learn X in Y minutes
A way to quickly learn the basics of a programming language.

Minimal Twitter 🌟
Chrome Web Store / Firefox Add-on
A browser extension that removes the clutter from Twitter and makes it bearable to use.

Omnivore 🌟
Omnivore is an open source read it later application that can integrate with services like Obsidian. I use it to take notes on articles I read.

Regexr
An online tool for mastering Regular Expressions.

Shellcheck 🌟
A tool for checking shell scripts for errors. I use it in my editor, but you can also use it online.

Ss64
A command line reference tool.

Music and Audio Tools

Auto EQ 🌟
AutoEq is a project designed to help equalize your headphones. It provides recommended settings tailored to your specific headphone model, which you can use in EQ software.

Exportify 🌟
A tool for analysing your Spotify library. It shows all the useful metadata that is used by Spotify’s algorithms that isn’t visible in the Spotify UI.

Last fm
A music scrobbling service. It keeps track of what I’m listening to across different platforms.

Music Map
A website that shows you a visualisation of similar artists to the one you search for. Useful for finding new music to listen to.

Websites and Web Games

Flag Stories
An infographic site showing the common elements in flags from around the world.

neal.fun
A website with a collection of interesting and fun interactive pages from Neal Agarwal. My favourites are Wonders of Street View, The Deep Sea and Who was alive?

Pn0gstr0m
Play AI at Pong. Evertime you hit the ball it multiplies.

Plain Text Sports
A website that shows you sports scores in plain text. Lets me quickly check scores without being bombarded with ads for sportsbooks.

How dense is your city?
A website for comparing the population density of different cities by distance from the city centre.

Scottish Beach Project
A blog with nice pictures of beaches in Scotland.

Shademap
A website for visualising the position of the sun at different times of the day and year.

Sports Under 150
A daily web game by Austin Krance. You are given a series of countries and a selection of sports, you assign each country a sport and win if the cumulative world ranking for your selections is under 150.

WikiNav
A website for visualising Wikipedia traffic between articles.

Wikitrivia
A game where you attempt to place a series of historical events in chronological order.

Toronto

Fishing in Toronto
A website with lots of information about fishing in Toronto.

Seekers Books 🌟
A used bookstore located at 509 Bloor Street West in Toronto.

The Toronto Public Library 🌟
If for some reason you live in Toronto and don’t have a library card, you should consider getting one. I particularly appreciate access to PressReader, Gale Courses, and the New York Times cooking section.

Toronto Maps
A map from the City of Toronto that shows a lot of useful information about the city.