Every Techie Needs This: IT Tools

[@dmynerd78]

Thank you so much for sharing this! I don't think I've ever deployed a new app into my homelab as fast as when you started demoing this

[@Jims-Garage]

@@dmynerd78 agreed, it's awesome!

[@JGrffn]

Had this up and running by the time the video ended (at 2x speed hahah)! Thank you!!!!!

[@Jims-Garage]

@@JGrffn you're welcome 😁

[@totallyperfectworld]

This is awesome. All I miss is a way to create favorites and have them on the top of the list….

[@arac4nia]

Can confirm, this is definitely something I needed.

[@matthewstott3493]

Really nice. I do a lot of this from within Emacs but this is going to still be very handy and self-hosted is highly recommended.

[@artvram]

Never heard of this but I need like 5 of these tools every day

[@Jims-Garage]

I was in exactly the same position!

[@Adam-cp1dl]

Lol same like 5 maybe 6 but you know it's homelab so "Self-Host Everything"😂

[@JbwConsult-mf3qc]

Brilliant! thanks for sharing. I hope a RegEx tool is in a future release.

[@eddiezhang6781]

Thanks!

[@Jims-Garage]

Very kind, thanks

[@talismanna]

Just installed. Thanks for sharing!

[@vanessasky3837]

Thank you for sharing, I just finished setting this up and will differently be a handy tool to have!!

[@Jims-Garage]

@@vanessasky3837 I've used it a ton already

[@anibalandrade754]

Great tool!!! Thanks and congrats for another tutorial!

[@Jims-Garage]

@@anibalandrade754 appreciate it, credit to the developer

[@elements88xyz]

Nice one. I’ve known about this one for a while. Quite handy although i’ve not deployed it yet. Might do later :) great stuff Jim. Keep it up.

[@Jims-Garage]

@@elements88xyz thanks

[@shodanki3736]

Watched installed by the runtime of the video amazing thanks :)

[@Jims-Garage]

@@shodanki3736 great 👍

[@SB-qm5wg]

That VSC Run tab is pretty cool

[@Jims-Garage]

@@SB-qm5wg yes, just noticed that

[@chrisumali9841]

Thanks for the demo and tip jim, have a great day

[@Jims-Garage]

@@chrisumali9841 thanks, chris

[@Thomas88-_-]

Ive been trying to set up pterodactyl in truenas kinda a pain. Lol . But now you got me sidetracked

[@zenaustere]

just installed this is awesome

[@Jims-Garage]

@@zenaustere agree! Kudos to the Dev

[@peterjackson6228]

Nice 👍 never heard of this before, now got it running in Portainer too

[@Jims-Garage]

Good to hear!

[@GeekendZone]

Awesome I will try it.

[@Squirrel4Gir]

Where have you been? I needed you two years ago

[@Jims-Garage]

@@Squirrel4Gir better late than never!

[@Centurionguy69]

Jim, your videos are amazing. I have learned a lot from you. In this case I'm happy to see that for once I am ahead of you and have been using IT-Tools for a while :) Thank you for your amazing videos and tutorials.

[@Jims-Garage]

Thanks, that's great - there's so much out there to learn...

[@tomrogo87]

Great stuff, mate! I do use it too and it is awesome.

[@Jims-Garage]

Don't know how I've lived without it!

[@tomrogo87]

@@Jims-Garage if you could call it a living :P

[@demorez5]

its great set of tools that use regularly, but i could not find any reason to selfhost it. privacy would be one, but if the hosted app would be leaking or collecting information so could the selfhosted version too.

[@Jims-Garage]

@@demorez5 true, but at least you can control that with a firewall if you wanted to.

[@igordasunddas3377]

Amazing stuff! I need to install it in my Kubernetes cluster I run locally. Any ideas if you can extend it?

[@Jims-Garage]

@@igordasunddas3377 I don't think natively, but I guess you could commit something

[@aryankothari4634]

@@Jims-Garage the core maintainer is very inactive in this project. They have a lot of open PR's adding new tools that have been waiting months to be merged/reviewed. Some have forked the project to implement and release those tools.

[@filip2359]

Ah, I’m already using it 🎉

[@ui4lh]

This is amazing, Thanks!!!!

[@Jims-Garage]

Glad you like it! Kudos to the Dev

[@barkingboyuk]

I've used Cyber Chef before, but this seems to have more tools available.

[@Jims-Garage]

Interesting, I'll have to take a look at it, thanks.

[@MatthiasSchippling]

I think CyberChef has more tools available. And it allows you to chain multiple tools together. But IT-Tools is definitely more accessible. I just installed it in my homelab and gave the link to the QR code generator to my girlfriend. Now she doesn't have to use dodgy websites to do that.

[@playeronthebeat]

Short question here from my side: Does it have an API to interface with? I have a couple of use cases especially for the QR Part where I'd like to digitize them and have them be printed out via an API request to the service for example. Would be nice if IT-Tools had something like an API so that you are not forced to use the GUI in terminal only environments if you know what I mean :)

[@Jims-Garage]

@@playeronthebeat that would be awesome, but I don't think it does.

[@playeronthebeat]

@@Jims-Garage That's unfortunate! :/

[@toddselby443]

Nice find and great video. I think these tools could save me hours of searching the web on how to do stuff.

[@Jims-Garage]

Definitely! Me too, save me having to remember a million commands.

[@JavierPerez-fq2fi]

Love it!!! Having this knife swiss is unvaluable to me! Thanks for sharing, will definitly install it

[@Jims-Garage]

You're welcome!

[@ChromeBookChuck]

Thanks. I’ll check it out. If you’re behind, I’m unborn

[@Jims-Garage]

Haha 😂

[@mattjax16]

Can’t wait for that trafiek 3 vid!

[@Jims-Garage]

It's in the works. Hopefully by the end of the week.

[@2Cane]

Discord link seems broken?

[@Jims-Garage]

Hmm, works ok for me. Double check it.

[@2Cane]

Issue was with discord and not with your link. Sign out and back in before using your invite worked 👌

[@Duurzaamheid]

Great one again, Thanks for sharing

[@Jims-Garage]

You're welcome

[@emanuelpersson3168]

still watching this one but you talked about Traefik 3... PLEASE include how to get Jellyfin working behind Traefik 3.. i can get to the Jellyfin Web interface but i can't get any playback to work.

[@Jims-Garage]

Sure, I'll do Traefik v3 and use Jellyfin as the example.

[@emanuelpersson3168]

@@Jims-Garage Sorry it was me. I was the problem.. it was my /etc/fstab that was incorrect.. needed to add ",vers=3.0" to get it to work..

[@Jims-Garage]

@emanuelpersson3168 great, glad you fixed it

[@matthewmiles6913]

Great video, I've been using it for a bit now too. Quick question. Why not use the Stack function in Portainer to manage the Compose file? I'm still getting started, and I was putting my compose files in the Stacks section, but I don't see many using that. Just wondering why.

[@Jims-Garage]

I prefer to keep it isolated and agnostic. No reason why you can't use Portainer though. I like the fact that I can deploy everything with a single command from the CLI.

[@unambiguous]

Just perfect. Thank you and the authors!

[@Jims-Garage]

Agree, fantastic tool

[@lguilh]

Seems in the same line as CyberChef

[@Jims-Garage]

Yes, it's very similar, albeit I prefer the UI and dark mode.

[@tw38203]

What a coincidence, installed it yesterday!

[@Jims-Garage]

Great minds ;)

[@GrollerG]

Thanks for this!

[@Jims-Garage]

My pleasure!

[@MMedic23]

Can't mention IT Tools without mentioning cyberchef!

[@Jims-Garage]

@@MMedic23 agreed, coming soon

[@georgec2932]

I’d never enter sensitive information into a converter on a website in the first place but playing devils advocate, why can we place trust in this (or any future updates to it)? I agree it’s going to be a lot safer than using a website but I’d still be reluctant to enter any particularly sensitive info- passwords, private keys etc

[@Jims-Garage]

@@georgec2932 you could block all egress traffic from it if you wanted

[@ambassadorofpain1]

CyberChef is the best thing to host tool wise imo. Especially for netsec people.

[@Jims-Garage]

Who knows, it might be next... 😉

[@davidknestrick4752]

Bravo friend- grateful 🙏🥰✌️

[@Jims-Garage]

Already saved me a ton of time!

[@gabscar1]

A swiss army knife indeed. Thanks!

[@Jims-Garage]

It's ace!

[@TismoGaming]

I wish it had linux command collection. It’s hard to remember some commands if I don’t use them daily.

[@KomradeMikhail]

Are you sure ? I run a homelab, and I don't need any of these tools.

[@lewiskelly14]

Shame it is Docker shit and not a PHP script

[@Jims-Garage]

It's 2025 not 2005, what's wrong with Docker?

[@happy9955]

thank you i know it now

[@dumbkid0]

ai chatbots can do a lot of those now, especially ones with agents support that can run code in background (like gemini-2.0 thinking model)

[@Jims-Garage]

True, just depends if you need privacy for certain things