My Collection of Useful Utilities

Stuff I use, arranged by language/OS. Inspired by this article.

Python

• diskcache: Python disk-backed cache, Django compatible, faster than Redis and Memcached
• FastAPI: High performance backend framework based on OpenAPI, JSON Schema and Python types via Pydantic
• rich: rich terminal formatting
• textual: CSS/HTML/React inspired reactive, responsive terminal UIs (demo)
• tqdm: intuitive progress bars for Python
  • Also with support for sending realtime updates to Telegram
• Typer: Alternative to argparser using Python types

Windows

• Everything: Extremely fast filename search (< 1s) with regex support
• Handbrake: Open-source video transcoder
• OBS Studio: Open-source screen recorder

Cross-Platform

• asciinema: Terminal session recorder
• Docker: Containerization at its finest
• hashcat: GPU-accelerated hash cracker
• VeraCrypt: TrueCrypt successor for full-disk/file/partition encryption with plausible deniability
• yt-dlp: Youtube-dl fork, a general purpose website video downloader

Web

• CanaryTokens: Get alerted when someone clicks a link, image, opens an Explorer folder, or even when a vulnerable service executes code using the Log4Shell vulnerability.
• Awesome: Huge, community maintained list-of-lists about programming, books, and many other topics (note - Awesome Piracy isn't linked)
• 4chan Recommendation Charts: Massive lists of recommendations about almost anything from books, movies, games, comics to anime.

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