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Near the end of each year I note down a summary of the best apps I’ve enjoyed using throughout the year, here’s 2022. ...

Near the end of every year I note down a summary of the best apps, hardware & podcasts I’ve enjoyed throughout the year (and often for some time before). This post has been superseded. You can find the latest version of this post here. Software and Services Plex Things Pixelmator Pro Reeder NextMeeting Bumpr Fastmail 1Password Calibre Backblaze iTerm Gitlab PFsense Stay Onyx Evernote Handbrake Amphetamine Firefox Software - Mobile Plex Things Reeder Overcast Evernote MiniHack Alien Blue Singal Prompt Browser Addons uBlock Origin Dencentraleyes Hardware LG C9 OLED TV Das Ultimate 4 Logitech MX Master 3 16’’ Macbook Pro iPhone 12 Pro AppleTV 4K Audioquest DragonFly Red USB DAC Ultrasone Signature Pro Headphones Kindle Paperwhite All Day Socks Bellroy Wallets Podcasts The Skeptics Guide To The Universion (SGU) You Are Not So Smart Risky.Biz RHLSTP Louis Theroux - Grounded Hiphop Saved My Life Geological 99% Invisible BBC Global News YouTube Channels Techmoan Jim Jefferies - Well I Don’t Know About That! Salvatore Ganacci Warped Perception Smarter Every Day DTM First We Feast (HotOnes) NPR Tiny Desk Concerts Logic The Absolute Worst Software I’ve Experienced 💩 Microsoft Office365 💩 💩 Microsoft Teams 💩 💩 Atlassian Jira 💩 💩 Atlassian Bamboo 💩 💩 Atlassian Confluence 💩 💩 McAffee Endpoint Security 💩 💩 Facebook 💩

At the end of every year I note down a summary of the best applications, hardware & websites I’ve enjoyed & depended on throughout the year (and often for some time before). This post has long since been superseded. You can find the latest version of this post here. Software / General Use Fastmail - https://www.fastmail.com Evernote - https://evernote.com Reeder - http://reederapp.com Keynote - https://www.apple.com/au/mac/keynote Lastpass - https://lastpass.com Plex - https://plex.tv Calibre - http://calibre-ebook.com Software / Geek Use Sublime Text - http://www.sublimetext.com/3 Homebrew - http://brew.sh DropSync - http://mudflatsoftware.com Beets - http://beets.radbox.org Textual - http://www.codeux.com/textual XLD - http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html Code Academy - http://www.codecademy.com Exercism.io - http://exercism.io Sickbeard + Headphones + Couchpotato + Sabnzbd - http://www.totalhtpc.com/ultimate-usenet-guide.html Software / Mobile Tweetbot - http://tapbots.com/software/tweetbot Pushover - http://pushover.net Lastpass - https://lastpass.com Keynote - https://www.apple.com/au/ios/keynote Reeder - http://reederapp.com/ios Evernote- https://evernote.com Plex - https://plex.tv Backblaze - https://www.backblaze.com WTF Podcast - http://www.wtfpod.com/app MiniHack - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id631108846?mt=8 Uber - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/uber/id368677368?mt=8 Goodreads - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/goodreads-book-recommendations/id355833469?mt=8 Notify4M - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/notify4m/id499161979?mt=8 Bandcamp - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/bandcamp/id706408639?mt=8 Hype Machine - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/hype-machine/id414315986?mt=8 Nuzzel (Only got onto this today) - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/nuzzel-news-from-your-friends/id692285770?mt=8 Alien Blue - http://www.reddit.com/r/alienblue Software / SysAdmin or DevOps Specific Gitlab - http://gitlab.org Gitlab-CI - https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci Dash - http://kapeli.com/dash PostgreSQL (Makes my list every year & just keeps getting better) - http://www.postgresql.org PGBadger - http://dalibo.github.io/pgbadger Docker - https://www.docker.com Consul - https://consul.io Puppet (I couldn’t do my job as well without it) - http://puppetlabs.com iTerm - http://iterm2.com Nginx - http://nginx.org Htop - http://hisham.hm/htop Bonnie++ - http://linux.die.net/man/8/bonnie++ Openfire - https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire Hiera-Eyaml - https://github.com/TomPoulton/hiera-eyaml Rubinius - http://rubini.us Puma - http://puma.io XenServer - http://xenserver.org ElasticSearch - www.elasticsearch.org Logstash - http://logstash.net FPM - https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm PFsense - https://www.pfsense.org Debian Jessie (Not quite released but the next great version of the best linux Distro IMO) - https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie Check_MK Multisite - https://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_multisite.html PWSafe - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pwsafe-password-safe-compatible/id520993579?mt=12 Supervisord - http://supervisord.org Websites Last.fm - http://www.last.fm/user/sammcj2000 Feedly - https://feedly.com HackerNews - https://news.ycombinator.com/news Lucidchart - http://lucidchart.com/ MondoTunes (Might be a little biased here!) - http://mondotunes.org Hardware Das Ultimate 4- http://www.daskeyboard.com Logitech Performance MX - http://www.logitech.com/en-au/product/performance-mouse-mx 15’’ Macbook Pro Retina - http://www.apple.com/au/macbook-pro iPhone 6+ (because its bigger than bigger, or something) - https://www.apple.com/iphone-6 CuBox - http://www.solid-run.com/product/cubox-i4pro Parani SD1000 Bluetooth Serial Adapter - http://www.senaindustrial.com/products/industrial_bluetooth/sd1000.php SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB SSD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171999 Other / Non-tech All Day Socks - http://alldaysocks.com Sennheiser Amperior On-Ear Headphones - http://www.head-fi.org/products/sennheiser-amperior-on-ear-headphones O2 + ODAC - http://www.jdslabs.com/products/48/o2-odac-combo Benchmark DAC1 HDR - http://benchmarkmedia.com/products/benchmark-dac1-hdr-digital-to-analog-converter Bellroy Wallets - http://bellroy.com Ink Shoes - http://www.inkshoes.it Kindle Paperwhite - http://www.amazon.com.au/gp/feature.html?docId=3077740006 Nerf Jolt - http://nerf.wikia.com/wiki/Jolt_EX-1 Books The Phoenix Project (Reread this year for the 3rd time) - http://itrevolution.com/books/phoenix-project-DevOps-book Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman! - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5544.Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman_ The Dark Tower Series - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43615.The_Gunslinger Snow Crash - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash