• Ripgrep, rg: A better grep.
  • Bat: A nicer cat for linux. If you’re cat’ing a file this will add colour and line numbers. It’s smart about it though. If cat is part of a pipeline where you probably don’t want that character stream modified it doesn’t. I’ve added an alias for cat -> bat.
  • Placekitten: Use pictures of cats into mockups with a nice api for specifying dimensions. So great this one.
  • firefox: The browser i’m using these days
    • plugins
      • tabliss for a new tab photo with quick links
      • 1password is the password manager I’m using these days
      • ublock origin because there are way too many ads on the internet
  • Bruno api client: Send authenticated test requests to an api and read back responses during development

Python

Docker

Orchestrators

  • k3s: A lightweight kubernetes distribution
  • Docker compose: A way to define and run multi-container docker applications

Handy images

  • busybox: A tiny image with a few unix tools
  • alpine: A tiny linux

Tools I have heard about but not used

I’ve bumped into a few tools I haven’t had the time or need to dig into, but wanted to leave a breadcrumb for my future self just in case …

  • Apache Surperset: Visualization of analytics db by apache s/w foundation
  • Apache Airflow: Data pipeline, batch orchestration tool (eg etl) again by apache :)
  • mkcert: Tool for creating a local certificate authority (ca), and client certs
  • Airbyte, ETL tool: Might provide some of the framework-y type stuff for etl (chunking, checkpointing, retry, job state, job status, parallelism, etc)