Flat’s Blog

Great Free Software

I use a lot of free software. Here’s my list of favorites, I think I’ll update it sometimes.

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Hackers (iOS)

Hackers is a great Hacker News client for iOS. It’s super simple, fast, small and clean. My only complaints are that the comments view is a little hard to follow and it sometimes fails to connect. Screenshot of main view Screenshot of comments view

Howl (Linux/BSD)

Fast, simple and good-looking keyboard-centric text editor. Development seems to have ceased, the last release is from 2019 and it’s lacking a lot of features. It’s great for simple text editing, though. Buffer grep screenshot File open

NetNewsWire (iOS/Mac)

Simply the best RSS reader for iOS. Main view Unread articles Reader view

Prism Launcher (Linux/Windows/Mac)

Minecraft launcher, fork of MultiMC. Up to date, works really well, easy to use but still has a lot of features. It’s native with Qt instead of the official launcher’s stupid webview. Main view Mod Installer

Kitty (Linux/Mac/BSD)

Kitty is my terminal emulator of choice. It’s fast, simple, but with cool features like images, has no annoying GUI while still supporting things like tabs, has great defaults, and generally just works™. Kitty terminal Kitty diff view

Any suggestions or comments? Shoot me an email.

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