Free, open-source macOS automation scripted in Lua. The glue behind my keyboard-first Mac: dictation, copy and paste keys, audio, screens and window rules.

Cocoatech's power-user file manager for macOS since 2001. The Finder replacement I used for years, until I built my own, Filee, in October 2026.

7 free, open-source Rust apps that copy the look and workflow of Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom and the rest of Adobe's suite. Early alpha, written with Claude.

TablePlus's new virtual machine app for Apple Silicon: macOS, Windows and Linux guests with GPU acceleration, snapshots, and a built-in MCP server so AI agents get their own machine. $69 once.

The native database client I've used every day since 2020 for my SQLite databases: fast, clean, safe edits with code review, and it speaks 15 database engines.

A mesh VPN built on WireGuard: every device you own joins 1 private network and reaches the others directly, with no ports to open and no VPN server to run. Free for personal use.

The web data API I've used since February 2026: scrape, crawl, map and search the web as clean Markdown, and now enrich LinkedIn URLs with people and company data through Alexandria.

A Japanese proxy shopping service: it buys from Japanese auctions, Mercari, Rakuten and 1,000s of shops that don't ship abroad, then consolidates and ships to you, for a flat ¥300 to ¥800 per item.

A European CDN and edge platform from Slovenia: content delivery from $0.01 per GB, video hosting with free encoding, storage, image optimisation, DNS and security, pay as you go from $1 a month.

A free, open-source Markdown editor for Mac, written in native Swift: it opens in 0.1 seconds, idles at 50 MB of memory, and keeps every note a plain .md file.

A cloud drive that shows up in Finder but takes no disk space: files stream on demand, every save is a version, and agents can work on instant copies of a whole drive.

A Rust terminal multiplexer built for coding agents. Sessions survive a closed lid, and every pane says whether the agent is working, blocked or idle.

A tiling window manager for macOS

keyboard controlled window management (retired Sep 2026, replaced by Amethyst)

for clean screenshots of web pages

Superhuman for LinkedIn DMs. Labels, snooze, snippets and CRM sync on top of an inbox that has none of it. From 28 dollars per user per month.

Free AGPL screen recorder with auto-zoom, cursor polish and a timeline editor. The open-source answer to Screen Studio, on Mac, Windows and Linux.

A free atlas of 15,716 real filming locations built on Wikidata, with CC0 downloads and a read-only MCP endpoint for AI assistants.

Phil Libin's video toolkit for people who work on camera: virtual camera, screen recorder, presentation studio and a screenshare replacement, $10/month.

DHH's opinionated Arch and Hyprland distribution, evaluated as a first Linux switch on an old Mac Mini, with the full hotkey reference.

A Rust rewrite of Logitech Options+ that runs locally. Remap buttons, DPI and SmartShift over HID++, with no account and no telemetry.

Open-source, local-first home automation platform. My journey hub, now running the Home Assistant Green and Voice PE alongside Apple Home, UniFi, Hue, and Tesla Powerwall.

Two Home Assistant Green starter kits compared, the difference is the radio: Connect ZBT-2 vs Sonoff Dongle Max. Same chip, different antenna and mounting.

Palm-sized OpenWrt VPN security gateway (GL-MT2500A) with WireGuard to 355 Mbps and a 2.5G WAN, and how it fits behind my UniFi network.

Marp turns plain Markdown into slide decks and exports them to HTML, PDF, PPTX, and PNG from a single CLI command.