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Dev Tools

Some useful tooling to aid with software development.

Screenshot.rocks - Puts screenshots inside a browser window

Command Line apps

bat - better cat
exa - Better ls
direnv - Load and unload environment variables depending on the current directory
bashtop - Cool resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
pipeplot - Easy graphing from stdout

Diagrams

Mermaid - Text to diagram tool, supported in GitHub Markdown and Notion
Text to Diagram - Comparison of different tools

Python

pytest-sockets - Disallow sockets in pytest tests
tuna - Import performance visualisation
Streamlit - Framework for making data scripts into apps
Locust - Load testing scripting

Linux Specific

kinto - Rename Copy+Paste to be like MacOS

Self improvement

Foam - Open source second brain (ala Roam Research)

Typing

keybr - Analyses typing, and uses algorithms to help you practice certain key presses
10 Fast Fingers - General typing practice
keychron - Keyboard brand recommended by a friend

React stuff

GatsbyJS - Pluggable Site generator for React

Web

Will it CORS - CORS explainer/builder
ngrok - Forward external URLs to local

Databases

Postgres explain visualisers
- https://explain.depesz.com/
- https://tatiyants.com/pev
  - has a graph breakdown of the results
  - Stores results in localstorage, also
- https://explain.dalibo.com/
https://use-the-index-luke.com/
- Breaks down database perforamnce tuning, with different kinds of SQL databases

DevOps

ShellCheck - Linter for shell scripts

Docker

Revisiting Docker for Mac’s performance with NFS volumes

macOS

Why some spaces are saved as unicode (non-breaking space)

Photo Editing

photopea - Free photoshop alternative, online only

Email

https://www.learndmarc.com/

Tried and failed

Alacritty terminal replacement https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty - Seemed fast, but still to early in development.
- At the time, didn’t have support for tabs