A lot of them. They might not always look nice, unfortunately, but there sure are a ton of tools that equal or rival professional stuff (and professional stuff often uses a bunch of them anyway nowadays)
https://github.com/ShawInnes/SshKeyGenerator change your life. this saves me so many clicks of what would otherwise be a really stupid alternative method of automation regarding these deployments i have to do. i couldn't prompt chatgpt for this code if my life depended on it.
With my OpenBSD developer hat on, I'll say we're grateful for hardware donations (from new laptops, to esoteric networking gear, etc.)
https://www.openbsd.org/want.html
Also the OpenBSD foundation is ~5% away from its fundraising goal for 2025! :-)
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2025.html
Linux & LibreOffice. At the end of the day I'm grateful to all people who work on open source and free software.
A lot of them. They might not always look nice, unfortunately, but there sure are a ton of tools that equal or rival professional stuff (and professional stuff often uses a bunch of them anyway nowadays)
GrapheneOS, OpenBSD, Wireguard
https://github.com/ShawInnes/SshKeyGenerator change your life. this saves me so many clicks of what would otherwise be a really stupid alternative method of automation regarding these deployments i have to do. i couldn't prompt chatgpt for this code if my life depended on it.
Linux #1
And recently:
Bluesky Social - https://github.com/bluesky-social
AT Protocol - https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto
AtProto is a very unexpected choice to see here. Not because it's not good, but it's just very young.
Why did you chose AtProto?
Linux Debian OpenBSD Lineageos Mastodon + the fediverse
Entire development/software stack: Linux+gnu/Debian, gcc/llvm, PostgreSQL/MySQL, git, Kotlin/Java/jvm, TypeScipt/js, maven, frameworks (currently Javalin+Vue.js).
And Firefox. And open-weights LLMs we can run locally/privately.
Linux, particularly Debian.
Most recently, the Zed editor. Also lazydocker and zellij.
Jellyfin, Debian, photoprism, node.js, chart.js, TypeScript, VS Codium, PiHole
marisa-trie: https://github.com/pytries/marisa-trie
Home Assistant
Ublock, no comparison folks.
solidjs and vite has been a breeze to prototype with so far i love it
Homebrew
Yep, this is one is a real hero in this list
Obviously it's
* Docker
* WASM
* Rustlang
* Web itself
Python
The Linux kernel and (neo)vim.
GNU Linux BSD
coreutils, nix, vim, Haskell (ghc), postgresql, latex
Zarf
linux, git, vim, golang/go
Git
Vite. Vitest. Storybook. React.