Some great tools for web or internet stuff I like.

• curl (great for testing HTTP requests)
• aria2c (great for faster downloads via multiple threads)
• httrack (mirrors websites but really slow)
• youtube-dl (download or stream media)
• rtmpdump (or just use youtube-dl)

• vnstat (checking network usage)
• nmap (local subnet IP searching)
• ipscan (simple java IP scanner)
• iperf (custom link speed test)

• iodine (handy VPN over DNS for restricted networks)
• sshuttle (tunnel network traffic over SSH)
• wireguard (do i need to mention this? fast, safe vpn protocol)
• Postman (for testing REST API's without memorizing cURL)

Mirror all the files off of a website, with the full folder structure

wget -m -p -E -k -K -np https://example.com/

On Windows, you can save links to websites. In Linux, Ctrl+S and drag/drop just save the HTML.

Well, turns out you can make .desktop files to just link to websites. Here's the jankjank script to easily make desktop files.

echo "[Desktop Entry]" >> "$1.desktop"
echo "Encoding=UTF-8" >> "$1.desktop"
echo "Name=$1" >> "$1.desktop"
echo "Type=Link" >> "$1.desktop"
echo URL="$2" >> "$1.desktop"
echo "Icon=text-html" >> "$1.desktop"

Parameter 1 is the name of the shortcut and file, parameter 2 is the actual URL. Change icon and other params as you see fit.

Save as a bash function or as a script. Usage:

bash link.sh "TonyWiki" "https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com"

• SFTP
• SCP
• SSHFS (FUSE for SFTP)
• Rsync

• SSHuttle (VPN over SSH)
• NetCat (just yeet stuff across systems)
• Rclone (for other cloud)
• S3FS (for when I need more disk space through B2)