It’s been a while since my last past, and it seems I’ll barely manage to get the “at least one post per month” goal done. But hey, technically correct etc.
If you’d be following me on izzzi, like I recommended before, you’d be getting my heartfelt personal issues and daily tribulations, but in lieu of that you’re getting some software recommendations.
Lately I’ve been getting into two programs that share some similarities in how and where they’re deployed, namely I run them simply on local machines in my own LAN, nothing exposed to the internet, although I’m considering doing that with both
Note this #
The first one is textpod, a rather small note-taking application. You’re downloading a small local web server, and when you start it, you get a very simple page, a text box that you use to both add and search notes. You can drag images to it to save them, and there’s even the option of saving linked web pages locally for archival.
After a few notes it can look like this:
It’s missing a few features, you can’t even edit notes in it. But it’s saving all of them in a markdown file, which means that I can do the more complicated stuff in a better editor.
The program is very good for just adding links and images, it probably won’t replace my favorite text dump, but who knows?
File this under success #
The second of today’s filler applications, copy party, is deployed in a similar way: You download a large python script, and run it with almost any version of the language you might find on a random computer.
But this one is way more powerful. At its core, it’s an easy and fast way of uploading and downloading all kinds of files. And it’s able to do that on almost any browser, so you can connect your mobile devices to your modern laptops and desktops, and anything retrocomputing from the 90s and later will also do just fine.
And once you got those files on your server, you can do a lot of them without downloading them first. It has a somewhat decent image viewer, a competent music player with on-the-fly file format conversion for those older machines, and even a markdown editor (see above for where this might come in handy).
I’m using this for re-building my local NAS setup, more about this once it’s on the final system. I’ve always thought nextcloud was a bit too large, and this looks like an awesome replacement.
If only I managed to not write the name as “copypasta” half the time…