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NetNewsWire
NetNewsWire is an open source feed reader for Mac. It does everything one would expect from a feed reader without bogging the user down with excess frippery, and does so with elegance.
MenuMeters
MenuMeters is my choice for a lightweight hardware monitor for Mac.
Setting the default browser in Linux
Setting the default web browser in Linux should be easy, and often is. But every once in a while one or another application stubbornly uses a browser other than your preference, and tracking the problem down can a challenge.
Using Homebrew
Homebrew is the package manager that Apple should have built in to macOS. It makes installing and managing Mac software so much easier.
Update macOS
How to use softwareupdate to keep your Mac, well, up to date.
Adding a directory to your path on Linux or Mac
How to add a directory to your path on Linux or macOS.
Enable zram on OpenSUSE 15.2
zswap provides a compressed RAM cache. I use it to improve performance on my elderly computer with limited RAM. Continue reading
Simple speed test for storage devices
Here’s a quick and dirty way to see how fast it takes a storage device to write, and later read, a 2 GB test file.
KeePassXC
The most actively developed of the Mono-free KeePass2 ports to Linux. Open source. Qt, yet somehow manages to be ugly anyway.
The KeePass Family
The original KeePass (Windows only) has spawned a number of related and compatible applications. Each one I look at gets its own note; here the family as a whole is considered.