Practical guides.
How to do one specific thing on Windows, Mac and Linux, first with the tools your system already has, then with my apps. Every guide answers the question in its first lines.
How to see which apps are using the internet on Windows, Mac and Linux
The tools already built into Windows, macOS and Linux to find which programs use the network, how much and with whom, and how to see it all at a glance with spectraNET, for free.
3 min read Read the guide With TreeXHow to free disk space from node_modules, caches and build folders
Where a developer's gigabytes go (node_modules, target, DerivedData, npm, pip and Gradle caches), what is safe to delete and how to do it on Mac, Windows and Linux.
3 min read Read the guide With VocalisA vanBasco alternative for Mac and Linux: a free MIDI/KAR karaoke player
vanBasco only runs on Windows and is no longer updated. Here is what .kar and .mid files are, what you need to play them well on Mac and Linux, and how to run a karaoke night with Vocalis, for free.
3 min read Read the guide With OllocodeCoding with an AI agent without the cloud: Ollama and MLX on a Mac
How to use AI to write code while keeping everything on your Mac: which model to pick for your memory, how to install it with Ollama, and what to really expect from a local agent.
4 min read Read the guide With VideoSTAXCompress video with your GPU: NVENC, Quick Sync, VideoToolbox and AMD
How to use your graphics card's hardware encoder to compress video to H.264, H.265 and AV1 many times faster: which card you need, ready-to-use FFmpeg commands, and how to do it without a command line in VideoSTAX.
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