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Over the years of professonal development I’ve found some neat tools that have really made my terminal a pleasure to work in. It started out to help get out of VSCode and to utilize the power of the terminal. There some many tools and

Programing Geared

Brew -> Mac missing packaging manager Git -> if you know you know Deno -> Server Side JS, like it Node -> Server Side JS NVM -> Node manager UV -> Python Manager, awesome sqlite -> Baselevel database duckDB -> Data Files Explorer, fun Rust -> Trying to level up

Terminal Gems

yes it is ranked, must haves at the top

Atuin Command History / Search, Base Terminal can back search for command and go back to previous command. Atuin takes it to another level. Filter through past commands and their biggest sell is to have the history sync up with other machines

Zoxide Basically shortcut to commonly visited directories. The ability to Tab completion, so if you are exploring a new dir or couldn’t quite remember how you structure the directories . A better option for visited dirs, would be the interaction mode which brings up a list of visited dirs.

EZA This a better cd command it has some preconfigured styling nad

Tree Ever wanted to just see the file structure of a directory, install Tree. Prompt is tree -l3 and you got 3 layers deep of the a dir. A helpful when trying to mv or cp a file or dir.

NeoVim with LazyVim Fist NeoVim. Vim that uses Lua, which is similar to JS. This it a little easier in building packages, opposed to Vimscript. LazyVim, quick install with all the amenities of a modern editor. A heavy lift for newbies, but you are able to get things going. One that are not ready to go down the path of a custom NeoVim, One day but not today.

Difftastic This one is a git tool. added visual elements to for comparing what has change in a file. Not a big one but if trying to stay in the terminal. a nice little tool

grep and fzf Only dabbled with these tool directly in the terminal but I have used them inside nvim/lazyvim, and they are pretty powerful to find stuff. Grep will find any combination of character in any file. fzf finds file name matches all across the drive.

Onefetch A repo tool for a flex. Just a fun tool that will take data from the repo and print it to the terminal. this could be what tech is used, contributors and authors.

Fastfetch Another fun about the same as OneFetch, this one however does the system

HTTPie Sending and receiving REST API calls. Still exploring the space. I’ve done some work with this help keep me in the terminal. tricky when sending larger payloads.

Image stuff imagemagick, webp, parallel : not the most important things but I have some bash script that will work with downloaded images and convert them to a webp. Hope to have some time to build up some new script that help. Tauri has a neat little image compiler that saves multiple sizes.

Some TUIs

btop Better on the eye Htop. Dashboard to show what is going on with the computer. Don’t use it a lot but If ever need to see why you computer is taking it’s time then this tool is able to get it worked out.

lazygit Found this one by wanting to find a replacement of the VS code git control. Nice to have when a want to look at a large changes and to review before a commit

Cask , Applications

Krita -> edit images raycast -> better spotlight insomnia -> REST API testing Docker -> repeat

Fun

Fonts: font-departure-mono, font-fira-code, font-fira-code-nerd-font Themes: Rose Pine and Tokyo Nights

Scripts

At work I have a new release branch every 2 to 4 weeks and the branches can stack up. This command can delete any merged branch except develop/main/master

git branch --merged | egrep -v "(^\*|develop|main|master)" | xargs git branch -d

Tree created these files had to remove them from dirs. this did the trick

 %% print what is found in dir %%
 find . -name "00Tree.html" -type f

 %% take said found then delete %%
 find . -name "00Tree.html" -type f -delete

Atuin scripts: Wanting to see what files in a repo have not been touch in over a year. Spits out .txt list so able go through see if there is anything that isn’t needed

comm -23 <(git ls-files | sort) <(git log --since="1 years ago" --name-only --pretty=format: | sort -u) | \
while read -r file; do
    if [ -f "$file" ]; then
        last_date=$(git log -1 --format="%ad" --date=short -- "$file" 2>/dev/null)
        printf "%s | %s\n" "$last_date" "$file"
    fi
done | sort -u > files_olderthan_year.txt

Alias

setup STOW to manage TODO:

• some for GIT
• some for Dir list

Terminal Tools

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