Software that you love and/or makes your job easier

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/sysadmin

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  • obsidian-releases

    Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

    Logseq or Obsidian for the knowledge base. Notion or even a wiki can work too, especially if you're building a shared knowledge base.

  • Tabby

    A terminal for a more modern age

    Tabby terminal for SSH, SFTP, Serial and any Shell installed on a client. Cross platform for Windows, Linux and Mac: https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby

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  • sublime_text

    Issue tracker for Sublime Text

    Sublime

  • logseq

    A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.

    Logseq or Obsidian for the knowledge base. Notion or even a wiki can work too, especially if you're building a shared knowledge base.

  • Wallabag

    wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.

    Wallabag or Omnivore for managing links/content that goes into your knowledge base.

  • omnivore

    Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who like reading.

    Wallabag or Omnivore for managing links/content that goes into your knowledge base.

  • mpc-hc

    Media Player Classic

    K-Lite is still around? I just use clsid's MPC-HC and LAVFilters now that CCCP is dead. I've seen some cases where this combination worked much better than VLC (video playback in VLC was choppy, while MPC-HC+LAVf worked fine).

  • InfluxDB

    Collect and Analyze Billions of Data Points in Real Time. Manage all types of time series data in a single, purpose-built database. Run at any scale in any environment in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.

  • LAVFilters

    LAV Filters - Open-Source DirectShow Media Splitter and Decoders

    K-Lite is still around? I just use clsid's MPC-HC and LAVFilters now that CCCP is dead. I've seen some cases where this combination worked much better than VLC (video playback in VLC was choppy, while MPC-HC+LAVf worked fine).

  • snaketail-net

    Tail utility for monitoring text log files and Windows EventLog

  • askai

    Command Line Interface for OpenAi ChatGPT (by yudax42)

    Either way, just go to https://chat.openai.com/, create an account and start chatting with the bot or ask it to write you a script. Yes, it's that easy.

  • winevdm

    16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

    winddvm, https://github.com/otya128/winevdm. Had a special case of a user who clung to their Windows 7 PC because their work was reliant on a 16-bit program from 1997 (and even on 7 it didn't run properly). Used the program above to make it run reliably on 10.

  • LDWin

    Link Discovery for Windows

    LDwin. https://github.com/chall32/LDWin Cisco port discovery in Windows. When the fluke tool is taken and you need to troubleshoot a physical connection, find out where a network point on the wall is going to or just find out what port a machine is connected to.

  • starship

    ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

    I almost exclusively SSH nowadays, so when I'm on Windows I use Scoop and use Windows Terminal, PowerShell Core with Starship, openssh (or git-with-openssh), and coreutils. This setup fits fairly well with my general Linux workflow. All of this easily installable with scoop.

  • Scoop

    A command-line installer for Windows.

    I almost exclusively SSH nowadays, so when I'm on Windows I use Scoop and use Windows Terminal, PowerShell Core with Starship, openssh (or git-with-openssh), and coreutils. This setup fits fairly well with my general Linux workflow. All of this easily installable with scoop.

  • gron

    Make JSON greppable!

  • Mergify

    Updating dependencies is time-consuming.. Solutions like Dependabot or Renovate update but don't merge dependencies. You need to do it manually while it could be fully automated! Add a Merge Queue to your workflow and stop caring about PR management & merging. Try Mergify for free.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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