For me, it's always fun to go through other people's lists of tools. It's a great way to indirectly learn about their workflows and discover something useful.
Here, I'll share some tools that I like and that help me in my day-to-day work, with a preference (mostly) for FOSS options - or ones not owned by mega-corporations.
I'll write another post about degoogling and share the alternatives I use instead of Google's tools.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Development & productivity | |
| Bruno | An open-source (and better) Postman alternative. |
| IT-Tools | A bunch of small, useful tools: hashers, encoders, random-stuff-generators, and more. |
| Maccy | A tiny, phenomenal clipboard manager. |
| Text-Compare | Ugly but does the job. Just compares texts. |
| JSONPath Finder | Shows JSON as a tree so you can explore it easily. |
| iTerm2 | A better macOS terminal. |
| Finicky | Choose which browser will open which links. |
| Media & screenshots | |
| Flameshot | Simple and great screenshot tool. |
| Audacity | Old-school FOSS audio editor that just works. |
| Spek | Displays a colourful spectrogram - great for checking if your FLACs are legit. |
| Security & system | |
| LuLu | FOSS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections. |
| BlockBlock | Shouts if something sneaky tries to add itself to startup items. |
| KnockKnock | Give it a run to see every persistent binary lurking on macOS. |
| Browser extensions | |
| LanguageTool | Grammar checker for everything you type on the web. |
| Definer | A browser dictionary with a great set of features. |
| Dark Reader | Unifies the appearance of web pages by applying consistent color themes that reduce eye strain. |
| Highlight or Hide Search Results | Hide junk domains (or highlight good ones) right in the search results. |
| Instapaper | One-click “read later” bucket with a clean, distraction-free reader view. |
| Raindrop.io | Slick cloud bookmark manager that actually makes you want to organise links. |
| uBlock Origin | I think everyone knows what it is. |
P.S. Stop using Google! Long live FOSS.