Software

Apps

• Hidden Bar

  Hidden Bar lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look.

• Brooklyn - Screensaver inspired by Apple's Event on October 30, 2018.
• Supernotes
• Standardnotes
• Zotero personal research asistant
• Miniflux minimalistic opinionated feed reader
• Standard Notes personal knowladge base
• AppFlow - opensource alternative to notion, written in rust
• Dropbox alternatives
• Plain text, with lines - plaintext editor that supports drawing
• papercups - Open-source live customer chat
• Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing
• Twist - Work communication that won’t distract you all day #software #communication #productivity
• Muse - App for note-taking and boards #software #macos
• Heynote - A dedicated scratchpad for developers #editor #note-taking
• Git Tower - The most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows
• Outline - Opensource Confluence alternative.
• AeroSpec - AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
• Spline - a place to design and collaborate in 3D.

Resources

• Don't use VPN services.
  • "The $10/month that you're paying for your VPN service doesn't even pay for the lawyer's coffee, so expect them to hand you over."
  • assume all VPNs log everything about you
  • use VPN only if:
    • you are in well known hostile network (WiFi at the Airport, ISP that is known for MITMing)
    • want to hide your IP for very specific non-government-sanctioned adversaries, e.g. circumventing ban in chat room