2020 Software Tools
One of my goals for the second half of 2020 is to finally start learning how to write some code. An increasing majority of the software I currently use on a daily basis is written in go so I'll probably try go first. It's very easy to build and run, as well as portable so I can run the built executables on my seedbox without the need for installing dependencies that require root. I've met some very friendly devs who have written some site scrapers and discord bots in go for me in the past, but I've been very reliant on others to do the work for me. By the end of the year I hope to have at least one useful thing, even if it's simple, written in go.
Here is a list of my favorite software written in go that I use almost on a daily basis:
- rclone – Cloud file transfer and file management
- statping – Web services status page
- linx-server – Pastebin and file host
- gonic – Subsonic server in go
- gitea – Github alternative
- yeetgif – gif editor/manipulator
- writefreely – Blogging platform on the fediverse: You're here now
- andesite – Authentication based file directory
- hugo – Static site generator
- caddy – Reverse proxy / HTTP file server
- syncthing – File syncing
- oragono – IRC Server
- dispatch – IRC Web Client
- statping – IRC/Discord Alternative
Honorable mention:
- annie – A youtube-dl alternative. I haven't found any excuses to not use youtube-dl so I haven't used this apart from testing a few video files.
If you have any other interesting tools let me know at @cptn@idolheaven.org on the fediverse.