Links

Literature

E-commerce

  • AbeBooks: An e-commerce site for used books.
  • LindyPress: Publisher of hard-to-find and out-of-print books.
  • SlugBooks: Compares prices between several retailers.

Science

  • SciHub: Remove the paywalls on academic articles. (Link changes frequently.)

Search engines

  • searxng: Self-hosted meta-search engine.
  • Startpage: Privacy respecting Bing and Google aggregate.
  • wiby: Minimalist/old site search engine.

Software

Software recommendations; often focused for minimalist Linux use.

A tick (✔) indicates software that I currently use.

Dynamic menus

Linux distributions

File managers

  • Ranger
  • lf: Go rewrite of Ranger.
  • Yazi: Rust rewrite of Ranger. ✔

Image manipulation

PDF readers

Photography software

RSS feed readers

  • Newsboat: A terminal RSS reader.
  • Newsraft: Newsboat’s lightweight counterpart.
  • Sfeed: A simple RSS and Atom parser. ✔

Static site generators

Terminal emulators

Text editors

Video editors

I have yet to move my work away from the Adobe Suite; the following programs are recommended, but not used by myself.

Web browsers

Web browser extensions

Window managers/compositors