macOS software

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Ruby > Ruby web programming > Mongrel

(on Wikipedia)
https://rubygems.org/gems/mongrel

This seems to only be for Rails.. I don’t understand it and there is no newbie-friendly documentation to explain the basics.

Reportedly faster/cooler than WEBrick.

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notecase_1.4.5 on the Sharp Zaurus

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/notecase/

A cross-platform hierarchical note-taking program.

Seems fair, but I’m using it like I would use multiple files opened with Kate.

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VLC icon

Software > Video editing >

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: vlc
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

The king of video players.

On Windows, this is especially-king because the user doesn’t have to figure out and download various shady codecs.



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FrostWire logo

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.frostwire.com/

A BitTorrent client.

I used to love it, but it gave up Gnutella functionality so it’s useless. I wonder if old versions are still good..

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Software > Revision control systems >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.monotone.ca/

monotone is a free distributed version control system. it provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol. it understands history-sensitive merging, lightweight branches, integrated code review and 3rd party testing. it uses cryptographic version naming and client-side RSA certificates. it has good internationalization support, has no external dependencies, runs on linux, solaris, OSX, windows, and other unixes, and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

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