Useful Tools (1)

Ahmed Musaad -

Every day I come across a multitude of tools that do this or that, and while a lot of them are overrated, there are many useful tools that can positively contribute to the productivity and life quality of any person who uses computers on a daily basis. I decided to share some of the useful tools I come upon every now and then, and hence this series of posts was born.

ffsend

Firefox Send is one of the best file-sharing services available online. It offers end to end encryption, automatic expiration for URLs, good size limits, and the force of Mozilla behind it. If you want to share a file with a friend, a client, or a family member, Send should be your go-to service.

Now, if you live within your terminal, then you might find the entire process of opening a browser and clicking through some buttons to share a file a bit annoying, and that’s where ffsend comes to the rescue.

ffsend is a fully-featured Firefox Send client that allows you to easily and securely share files from the comfort of your command line. Some of its features are:

  • Upload and download files and directories securely
  • Always encrypted on the client
  • Additional password protection, generation, and configurable download limits
  • Built-in share URL shortener and QR code generator
  • Ability to use custom Send hosts
  • Ability to inspect or delete shared files

ffsend is a tool everyone needs in their life and on their OS. Check it out and give it a try, you are going to love it.

Link: https://gitlab.com/timvisee/ffsend

Age

Age is a “simple, modern and secure encryption tool with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.”1 That’s it, no fuss, no muss, a simple tool that fulfills an important task without any unneeded complications.

Link: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

localdots

localdots is a handy tool for those of us who develop websites or run local web servers on their machines and want to enable HTTPS on the local addresses as well. It’s not a production-tier tool, rather a more of debugging/testing tool. localdots combines two awesome projects to achieve its goal, Caddy (web server) and smallstep/certificates (CA).
Link: https://github.com/luisfarzati/localdots

So, these were the tools I came upon in the past few days and found useful. I hope you agree. Make sure to check now and then for more posts like this.