Links

Agile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE - great, short video on Agile product ownership
https://glenngillen.com/thoughts/quickstart-guide-to-agile - excellent opinion article on agile software development
https://wheelofnames.com/ - the wheel of names!
https://retrotool.io/ - run remote retros

NetArchTest - use this to enforce architectural patterns in your code
Azure Architecture Icons - you can download icon sets here to create Azure architecture diagrams

There’s an AI For That
Gamma - create beautiful presentations
Tripnotes - this isn’t working yet, but it’s a great idea! Notes on where to go when visiting a country/city….
Microsoft Designer - use AI to generate images and logos
CustomGPT.ai - create custom GPT with your own business content

HangFire - background processing in .NET
Humanizer - library for turning values into human-readable strings
Polly - resilience and transient-fault-handling library, including Retry, Rate Limits, etc
Quartz.NET - scheduler library
MiniProfiler - a free, very useful profiling tool for .NET and .NET Core

http://www.favicon.cc/ - create your own icons
PNGOUT – this is a FREE tool that reduces the size of PNG files by 5 – 30%. Running this on all images for presentations, blog posts and web sites is a pretty good idea!
Paint.NET - free image editing software
MediaInfo - inspect video/audio media info
Greenshot - screen capture with easy obfuscation, highlighting and editing
Draw.io - free diagrams/charts desktop tool
https://excalidraw.com/ - an amazing scratch tool that can turn words into charts

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/password-guidance-simplifying-your-approach - don’t take my word for it: password guidance from the NCSC
Google - good old Google can be used to query sites looking for login information
Wayback Machine - can be used to look at previous versions of your site to see what files are changing, and can be used nefariously to try exploit old code
Shodan - can be used to search and reveal sensitive certificate information about your domain
Web Check - can be used to pull security information about your sites
DNS Dumpster - can be used to get a list of host records for a particular domain
Dehashed - public breaches, search e.g. domain:iua.co.za
’;–have i been pwned? - free tool for monitoring your email addresses appearing in data breaches
BuiltWith - analyse technology profile of a site
Wappalyzer - browser extension technology profiler for a web site
Netcraft - browser extension that will analyze the tech stack and also warns users of potential attacks
OWASP Dependency-Check - free dependency checker

ConsoleZ - tabbed consoles for those who like to DOS
Teracopy – I love this tool. It also queues copying requests so you don’t end up with a hard drive going back and forth like a scratch record.
7-Zip - the king of zipping tools
Agent Ransack - free file search tool
mRemoteNG - tabbed interface for remote connections
TreeSize Free - free disk space manager