--- title: Resources date: 2024-06-01 layout: permalink description: "Browse the resources I use and recommend, including articles and free software." toc: true --- ## Educational resources and open licenses {#OER} [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/) [Free Software Foundation: Free software resources](https://www.fsf.org/resources/) [Open Educational Resources (OER Commons): Search resources](https://www.oercommons.org/browse) [Saylor Academy: College Success](https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=700) ## Recommended reading {#reading} [About Feeds: What is a feed?](https://aboutfeeds.com/) [Annamma, S. A. (2018). *The pedagogy of pathologization: Disabled girls of color in the school-prison nexus.* Routledge.](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315523057) Lydia X. Z. Brown on Autistic Hoya * [*Ableism is not "bad words." It's violence.*](https://www.autistichoya.com/2016/07/ableism-is-not-bad-words-its-violence.html) * [*Ableism/language*](https://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html) * [*Violence in language: Circling back to linguistic ableism.*](https://www.autistichoya.com/2014/02/violence-linguistic-ableism.html) [Pronouns.org (formerly MyPronouns.org): Resources](https://pronouns.org/resources) [Opsahl, K. (2013, June 7). *Why metadata matters.* Electronic Frontier Foundation.](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/why-metadata-matters) [Rogers, C. (2016). *Intellectual disability and being human: A care ethics model.* Routledge.](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638713) [Stevenson, B. (2014). *Just mercy: A story of justice and redemption.* Spiegel & Grau.](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780812984965)\ [Stevenson, B. (2014). *Just mercy: A story of justice and redemption.* [Audiobook]. Penguin Random House Audio.](https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780553550610) ## Recommended software {#software} I rely on [free software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software) every day. Described below are the services and tools I use most often (i.e., at least once a week and often daily). {{}} [Authelia](https://www.authelia.com/): Self-hosted single sign-on (SSO) service\ Licensing: Apache License 2.0\ *Could replace the built-in authentication on individual self-hosted services and add authentication to services that do not have built-in authentication* {{}} [Bitwarden](https://bitwarden.com/): Self-hostable password manager\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\ *Could replace 1Password, Dashlane, and LastPass* {{}} [Cryptomator](https://cryptomator.org/): Client-side file encryption solution that works well with cloud storage\ Licensing: GNU General Public License v3.0\ *Could replace Boxcryptor* {{}} [Firefly III](https://www.firefly-iii.org/): Self-hosted personal finance manager\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\ *Could replace Mint and YNAB, albeit with a ["fundamentally different"](https://docs.firefly-iii.org/firefly-iii/more-information/what-its-not/) [philosophy](https://docs.firefly-iii.org/firefly-iii/more-information/personal-finances/)* {{}} [FreshRSS](https://freshrss.org/): Self-hosted news aggregator\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\ *Could replace Feedly and Inoreader* {{}} [GnuPG](https://gnupg.org/): Used by Keyoxide's [decentralized identity verification](https://docs.keyoxide.org/) and mailbox.org's [encrypted inbox](https://mailbox.org/en/security), "GnuPG is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880" \ Licensing: GNU General Public License v2.0 or later\ *See also [Git's "Signing Your Work"](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work) and [Keyoxide](https://keyoxide.org/)* {{}} [Grist](https://www.getgrist.com/): A "modern relational spreadsheet" that supports Excel and Python functions\ Licensing: Apache License 2.0 for non-enterprise features\ *Could replace Airtable and Google Sheets* {{}} [linkding](https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding#readme): Simple bookmark tool that can automatically save bookmarked pages to the [Internet Archive's Wayback Machine](https://archive.org/web/)\ Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\ *See also [ArchiveBox](https://archivebox.io/)* {{}} [mailbox.org](https://mailbox.org/en/): Secure mail service provider\ Licensing: Based on [Open-Xchange, Postfix, and other free software](https://userforum-en.mailbox.org/topic/is-everything-at-mailbox-org-open-source)\ *Could replace Gmail and Outlook* {{}} [Mozilla Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/) and {{}} [Mozilla Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/): Web browser (desktop and mobile) and email client that can also manage contacts, calendars, and feeds (desktop)\ Licensing: Mozilla Public License 2.0\ *Firefox could replace Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, etc. while Thunderbird could replace eM Client, Mailbird, and Microsoft Outlook. See [FairEmail](https://email.faircode.eu/) for a mobile email client* {{}} [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/athome/): Self-hosted cloud storage and content collaboration platform\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (server)\ *Could replace Google Drive and Microsoft 365 -- CalDAV and CardDAV support also allow for synchronization of calendars and contacts, respectively* {{}} [ntfy](https://ntfy.sh/): Self-hostable HTTP-based push notification service\ Licensing: Apache License 2.0 and GNU General Public License v2.0\ *See also [Gotify](https://gotify.net/)* {{}} [Rclone](https://rclone.org/): Cloud storage management tool (e.g., move files between different servers)\ Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\ *Could replace [a supported provider's](https://rclone.org/#providers) synchronization software (e.g., Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive)* {{}} [restic](https://restic.net/): Cross-platform backup tool with data integrity verification, encryption, deduplication, and support for [multiple backends](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html)\ Licensing: 2-Clause BSD License (Simplified BSD License) \ *See also [Awesome restic](https://github.com/rubiojr/awesome-restic#readme) for other restic-related projects* {{}} [Shiori](https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori#readme): Self-hosted read-it-later application\ Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\ *Could replace Instapaper and Pocket. See also [wallabag](https://wallabag.org/en), which I used until early December 2022* {{}} [Signal](https://www.signal.org/): Secure instant messaging\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (server, desktop) and GNU General Public License v3.0 (mobile)\ *Could replace text messages (SMS/MMS), Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and WhatsApp* {{}} [SilverBullet](https://silverbullet.md/): Self-hosted note-taking application with [end-user programming features](https://silverbullet.md/End-User%20Programming)\ Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\ *See also [Joplin](https://joplinapp.org/) and [Logseq](https://logseq.com/), which are note-taking applications I've previously used.* {{}} [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/): Continuous file synchronization program\ Licensing: Mozilla Public License 2.0\ *See also [Syncthing-Fork](https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android#readme) (Android) and [Syncthing Tray](https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray#readme) (cross-platform)* {{}} [TeXstudio](https://www.texstudio.org/): LaTeX editor\ Licensing: GNU General Public License v3.0\ *See also [The LaTeX Project](https://www.latex-project.org/) and [a TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange answer comparing the TeX distributions](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/239204)* {{}} [Vikunja](https://vikunja.io/): Self-hostable task management application\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\ *Could replace Microsoft To Do, Todoist, etc.* [Zooming Out](https://adikos.net/blog/articles/zooming-out/): "A provisional list of Zoom replacements" that I helped research Please feel free to contact me for other alternatives or public instances of self-hostable services! ## For more content {#other} [Read why, as of November 2, 2020,](/cloudflare/) I host this website on [NearlyFreeSpeech.NET.](https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/) [Browse the Git repositories](https://git.eyoo.link/ethan) for this website and its theme. 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