Links
Because every blog needs a vomit of random links… Expect link rot and other annoyances…
Table of Contents
- Computers / Vendors
- Electronics
- Languages
- Other
- People, blogs
- Privacy
- Search engines and databases
- Security
- Sites, Tools
- Software
- Telecom
- Weather
- https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ MacRumors Apple Buyer’s Guide (days since last product refresh, etc)
- Mikrotik Routers, switches. Haven’t tried their long range wireless bridges, yet, but I’m very impressed with their switches.
- OpenWRT Flash your wireless access point, now!
- Ubiquiti Long range wireless bridges, switches, and more.
- Updating Dell PowerEdge servers via bootable media / ISO
- Adafruit Parts, unique tools.
- https://hackaday.com
- https://akoutmos.com/post/elixir-shell-scripts/
- https://elixirschool.com
- https://hashrocket.com/blog/posts/elixir-for-loops-go-beyond-comprehension
- https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/List.html
- https://joyofelixir.com/11-files/
- https://www.codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sto/ Virtual conference for all things Erlang, Elixir, BEAM.
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/binary.html#decode_unsigned-1
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/crypto.html#strong_rand_bytes-1
- https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/elixir-encryption-with-erlang-crypto/
- http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/10/30/how-to-choose-cddvd-archival-media Discussion about CD/DVD media (use Taiyo Yuden DVD+R)
- http://worthmonkey.com/ “The blue book for used electronics and more”!
- https://inkarnate.com/ “Turn your ideas into incredible fantasy maps with Inkarnate’s easy-to-use online map-making platform.”
- https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/ 20 years of historical satellite images
- https://www.docracy.com/ Free boilerplate legal contracts
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/
- https://dmachoice.org Opt out of snail mail SPAM (used to be free, now costs $6 for 10-years :-/ )
- https://duckduckgo.com/ “The search engine that doesn’t track you”.
- https://guardianproject.info/
- https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/ Google Alternatives
- https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/
- https://www.importyeti.com Search 70 Million U.S. Customs Sea Shipment Records Instantly
- https://www.judyrecords.com Free Public Records Search
- http://hosts-file.net/
- http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/
- http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools
- http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/search.aspx?navV3Index=1
- http://www.processlibrary.com/en/directory/a/1/
- http://www.systemlookup.com/
- http://www.threatexpert.com/reports.aspx
- https://cc.dcsec.uni-hannover.de/
- https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ In browser tool suite (hashing, encryption, etc).
- https://haveibeenpwned.com/ Check if you have an (email) account that has been compromised in a data breach
- https://sha1.gromweb.com/ “SHA-1 conversion and SHA-1 reverse lookup”
- https://techblog.willshouse.com/2012/01/03/most-common-user-agents/“A dynamic, downloadable list of the most common user agents.”
- https://wiki.skullsecurity.org/Passwords Leaked password lists and databases
- https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard
- https://www.virustotal.com/ Online virus scanner
- http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/ Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme
- http://zeromq.org/ Build multi-platform, multi-language distributed systems.
- https://beets.io/ Beets Music Organizer
- https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki “Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin”.
- https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium Cryptography done right.
- https://ninite.com Windows: “Install and Update All Your Programs at Once”.
- https://openwrt.org/ Alternate firmware for consumer grade WiFi hardware.
- https://proxmox.com/en/ Containers and full virtualization. Production ready. High availability. Bare-metal installer. Everything you need. Forget the big guys, Proxmox rocks.
- https://saltstack.com/ System management.
- https://truenas.com Network attached storage, iSCSI, etc.
- https://www.postgresql.org/ “The world’s most advanced open source database”.
- LinkChecker - Avoid embarrassing link rot. Packaged as “linkchecker” in Fedora and OpenBSD.
- https://evan-doorbell.com Historical recordings and information about the US analog telephone system (1970s)
- https://www.opencnam.com/ Caller ID reverse lookup
- Voice over IP
- Flowroute SIP trunking. If you need VoIP, use FreeSWITCH and Flowroute.
- FreeSWITCH VoIP, done right.
- https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/mod_dptools When in doubt, start here.
- Yealink Inexpensive, good quality, easy to manage VoIP handsets.
- https://mrms.ncep.noaa.gov/data/
- https://openweathermap.org/api
- https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/
- https://weather.ral.ucar.edu/
- https://windy.com My favorite weather/radar/satellite site
- https://www.weather.gov/radarfaq