madphilosopher

foobar2000 on iOS is game-changing. Thank you so much for your recommendation!

The iOS Music.app is so bad. I've suffered long enough with it.

redis - for simple, reliable interprocess communication

cron - gets things done on time, every time

chrony - simple, no-nonsense NTP

supervisor - keeps my processes running

tinc VPN - all my servers and services happily meshed together

Arduino - makes microcrontrollers accessible

BitTorrent - trivial, mirrored file hosting

BitTorrent Sync - simple, reliable file syncing

There is a utility called InControl [1] that will manipulate some registry keys for you to pin your machine to a specific major version and feature update release. In other words, it can prevent automatic upgrades to a future Windows version.

[1] https://www.grc.com/incontrol.htm

Have a look at Opalstack [1]. They are a hosting platform for developers, and their tools include DNS hosting and email hosting. You can have your email hosted and routed in Germany. I use them for myself and about a dozen clients of mine.

[1] https://docs.opalstack.com/user-guide/email/

"Our call volume is currently very high and the wait time is X minutes. Please press 1 if you would like to be put in the queue and have an agent call you."

I wish more companies did this so that I can actually get on with my day without spending it on hold.

I grew up with a Commodore 128, and it had two screen buffers---one for 40-column mode and one for 80-column mode. I remember listing some code on the 80-column side of things so that I could edit it there and insert it into the code I had over on the 40-column side. I felt clever that day.

ReiserFS is my favourite Linux filesystem. I use it where most people just use the default ext4. I was originally attracted to it for the large-number-of-small-files support it had.

I appreciate the ability to shrink/grow an existing ReiserFS, which I do often enough as I add new storage to my LVM layouts.

I have never lost a ReiserFS filesystem due to corruption, so the tooling seems sufficient for me.

I hope it stays in the kernel for a long time.

I opted for a low-power FM transmitter fed by the music player daemon (mpd). Zero latency, always synchronized, works with any stereo receiver I want, plenty of clients to choose from (web-based, mobile, etc.) to control the mpd.

I use tinc VPN [0] to connect a bunch of separated LANs together, and a built-in configuration directive

    GraphDumpFile = /etc/tinc/network/graph.viz

will generate a real-time network graph using the Graphviz DOT language. It's a cool feature that I find quite useful.

[0] https://tinc-vpn.org/

My choice is paper, too. For that, I really like the Pocketmod [0] system. I generate my own Pocketmod booklets using PostScript [1].

[0] https://pocketmod.com/

[1] https://gist.github.com/madphilosopher/c71dac84a096533d335bf...

Olfa Touch Knife. Pocketmod PDA.

My wife, who used to work in an airport tower, gave me this tip about reading windsocks: Imagine a tiny aircraft coming out of the mouth of the windsock---that's the direction a real aircraft will use to take off and land.