Helpful Tools

List of helpful tools we use:

General

• Command Not Found - Find package needed for a given executable.

• Pkgs - Index of packages across distributions and more.

• Repology - The Packaging Hub

Terminal

• oh-my-zsh - ZSH framework for managing zsh config.

• tmux - Terminal multiplexer

• rg - RipGrep (grep like tool written in Rust)

• fzf - CLI Fuzzy finder

• exa - exa is a modern replacement for ls.

• zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

• entr - Run arbitary commands when file changes

Git

• gh - A command line interface for using GitHub.

• glab - A command line interface for using GitLab.

• refined-github - Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features.

• diff-so-fancy - Make git diffs look pretty.

• lazygit - Simple terminal UI for git commands.

• Gitkraken - A GUI for git.

• git-extras - Collection of git utilities.

Code Editor

• code - VSCode by Microsoft

• pycharm - Python oriented IDE by Jetbrains

• webstorm - Web development oriented IDE by Jetbrains

• datagrip - Database oriented IDE by Jetbrains

• nvim - Enhanced VIM

WSL

Setup

• Documentation

• Configuration

• Environment Setup

Tools

• WSLg - Run X11 / Wayland in WSL

• Optimizing WSL - Suggested optimizations for WSL

• WSL Defender Bug - Tracking performance issues caused by Windows Defender with some workarounds.