geeky

geeky is a list of technical articles, sites, software, hardware that I find interesting.

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Table of Content:

• Articles
• Hardware
• IoT
• Kubernetes
• Linux Distros
• Local Container Images
• Local Software
• Mobile Distros
• Server Container Images
• Server Software
• Sites
• Software as a Service
• Software Frameworks

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Articles

This has been moved to its own markdown file due to amount of content.

Hardware

Audio

• FiiO BTR7: portable Bluetooth DAC & Amplifier with balanced output. Wired USB DAC mode supports; native DSD up to DSD256, PCM 32bits up to 384kHz and MQA 8x Support.
• FiiO K7 BT: desktop DAC & AMP with Bluetooth; supports native DSD256, PCM 32bits up to 384kHz.

Computer

• Topton N6005 / N5105 Mini-ITX NAS Motherboard: has embedded CPU, low powered motherboard and 6 SATA ports. An excellent for your own home server.

Handheld

• PowKiddy RGB30: handheld console with a 1:1 720p screen, ARM quad-core 1.8GHz CPU, LPDDR4 1GB and built-in 4100mA li-polymer battery. Super cool device and well supported by JELOS Linux.
• Rabbit R1: neural network gadget that uses two models; a natural language processing model and an software interface model that allows actions to be made for your apps using your voice.

IoT

• Tasmota: open source firmware for ESP devices.

Kubernetes

• KEDA: KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler. With KEDA, you can drive the scaling of any container in Kubernetes based on the number of events needing to be processed.

Linux Distros

• Daphile: is an audiophile class music server & player OS - targeted to dedicated headless PC.
• JELOS: an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices.
• OpenMediaVault: distribution designed for network-attached storage.
• Pop!_OS: a very polished Ubuntu based distro for desktop, which includes a lot of enhancements, great graphic card hardware support and power management.
• Ubuntu Core: for IoT and embedded environments, optimised for security and reliable ota updates. Great for running containers on a low powered device such as a NUC.

Local Container Images

• Docker-OSX: run Mac OS X in Docker with near-native performance. A very interesting project.

Local Software

• Lutris: play all your games on Linux; helps running Battle.net, Epic Games and other on a Linux machine.
• Plexamp: completely custom music player for audiophiles. Integration available with Tidal and you can serve your own music from your Plex server.
• TIDAL Hi-Fi: the web version of listen.tidal.com running in electron with Hi-Fi (High & Max) support thanks to widevine for you Linux machine.

Mobile Distros

• LineageOS: an open-source Android distribution without the bloat.
• postmarketOS: real Linux distribution for phones based on Alpine Linux.
• Ubuntu Touch: is a mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system, being developed by the UBports community.

Server Container Images

• Code-server: VS Code running in a container and accessible through the browser.
• Lidarr: music collection manager, accessible through the browser.
• Nextcloud: host your own Google Drive/iCloud, accessible through the browser and their apps
• Overseerr: a request management and media discovery tool built to work with your existing Plex ecosystem.
• Pi-hole: network-wide ad blocking, setting up a DNS server. Management through the browser.
• Plex: stream your own movies and series like Netflix, accessible through the browser and their apps.
• Prowlarr: index manager, accessible through the browser.
• Radarr: movie collection manager, accessible through the browser.
• Readarr: book manager, accessible through the browser. Note, still a work in progress last checked on 2024/01/17.
• Sonarr: series collection manager, accessible through the browser.
• Transmission: web version of the popular torrent client.
• VSCodium: is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code that runs in a container and accessible through the browser.
• Watchtower: automates container base image updates.

Server Software

Provides interface normally through the browser, ideal for headless machine:

• Grafana: is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database that you can host on your machine.
• Homebridge: allows you to integrate with smart home devices that do not natively support HomeKit.
• Kasm Workspaces: streaming containerized apps and desktops to end-users. Offers community edition.

Sites

• AniChart: great site for viewing the latest anime releases for the current season and past ones.
• Ars Technica: is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society.
• ExtremeTech: is a technology weblog, launched in June 2001, which focuses on hardware, computer software, science and other technologies.
• Liliputing: covering mobile tech news, tips and reviews with a focus on smartphones, tablets, notebook, and handheld computers as well as tiny desktop PCs.
• LinuxServer.io: optimised, frequently updated community maintained container images.

Software as a Service (SaaS)

• gitignore.io: quickly generate .gitignore file for your project.
• Feedly: news aggregator application for various web browsers and mobile devices running iOS and Android.
• Markdown Table Generator
• No-IP: offers a couple of services, but great for Dynamic DNS for your home router.
• Playcode: browser base JavaScript playground and sandbox to write, run and repl it.
• Source Making: site focused on good software architecture by exploring design parterns, anti-patterns, refactoring and uml.

Software Frameworks

• NestJS: is a framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications.