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Top 10 Tools New to Me in 2025 (so far)

Β· 2 min read

In order of usage frequency:

  1. Cloudron ☁ - Opensource self-hosting made easy.
  2. Tailscale πŸ›œ - Modern, cross-platform and FOSS VPN mesh tool.
  3. Keyboard Maestro 🎻 - Neat tool for making macros on your mac.
  4. Markdown Here Ⓜ️ - Markdown plugin for Thuderbird email client.
  5. Rustdesk πŸ–₯️ - Remote Desktop written in Rust.
  6. Kiri Engine πŸ—Ώ - Incredible photogrametry and LiDAR scanning from your phone.
  7. Comfy UI 🎨 - Interface for generating images with AI.
  8. Invoice Ninja πŸ₯· - Snappy, well designed FOSS invoicing program.
  9. Resilio Active Everywhere πŸ“‘ - Distributing data made easy, sync solution that packs a punch.
  10. Advanced Renamer πŸ“ - Rename in batch with sequencing and other numerical features.

Command Line Tools

  1. yazi πŸ—‚οΈ - Terminal based file explorer written in rust.
  2. tldr πŸ“ - Display simple help pages for command-line tools from the tldr-pages project.
  3. fastfetch β„Ή - Display information about your operating system, software and hardware.

Honorable mentions (πŸ¦ƒTurnkeyπŸ”‘ platforms):

  • Arch Platform Technologies πŸ›οΈ - Intensely configurable cloud workstations designed for VFX.
  • [Re]design Artst Anywhere 🌎 - Cloud solution for workstations with Flow PTR integrations.
  • Studio Monkey πŸ’ - Tools for managing productions.

Overhauling ShotGrid Statuses With Webhooks

Β· 4 min read

This blog post outlines a way to revamp ShotGrid statuses for production with a webhooks server and careful planning.

Statuses 2.0​

"Versions affecting Tasks affecting Shots."​

In order to redesign your status workflow in ShotGrid, the first thing to understand is that any entity in ShotGrid can have a status. Shots, Versions, Tasks, in ShotGrid these are considered "entities" meaning they can hold a number of attributes or "fields", one of which is a status.

When working in live action VFX, statuses are typically used for your Shots. You can get more granular if you've incorporated a task workflow, i.e for what specifically needs to be done on a shot, and more granular further, for versions, which can be iterations of work done for a task on that shot.

Top 10 Tools New to Me in 2024

Β· 2 min read

In order of usage frequency:

  1. Arc 🎨 - A creative new take on the web browser
  2. Thunderbird 🐦 - Lightweight, configurable email client - free and open-source from Mozilla
  3. BitWarden πŸ” - Modern, cross-platform and open-source password/secrets manager
  4. Bear 🐻 - Note taking and documentation writing markdown App
  5. Zed πŸ”³ - Open source high performance GPU accelerated collaborative code editor
  6. Suite πŸš€ - Mounted cloud storage at lightning speeds
  7. Parallels ‼️ - Local VMs and cross platform integrations on your mac
  8. Signal πŸ›œ - WhatsApp substitute - letting me get away from meta in 2025
  9. MASV πŸ›Έ - Lightweight, well designed file share platform for sending massive files (slack integration ++)
  10. Spacedrive πŸͺ - A promising cross-platform file manager that packs a huge punch

Honorable mentions:

  • Compressor πŸ—œοΈ - Apple’s Media Encoder - allowed me to leave adobe in 2024
  • Pixelmator Pro πŸ–ŒοΈ - Photoshop/Illustrator replacement - also let me leave adobe in 2024
  • ChatGPT πŸ€– - LLM AI who’s lovely to talk to - but the app needs much more love
  • DaVinci Resolve πŸ–²οΈ - Not new to most people - but this also allowed me to leave adobe in 2024 - deserves a mention just for that
  • DaisyDisk 🌼 - Awesome graphical disk space utility for Mac (late to the game on sunburst diagrams)