System Configuration

Terminal toolkit

• Bash for the shell
  • The benefits of zsh seem to be somewhat negated by some of these other tools
• ctop for monitoring containers
• Docker for development environments
  • Containerization means it's much lighter than VM solutions like Vagrant
  • Supported by many CI services
• exa for replacing ls
• fd for replacing find
• fzf for a general purpose fuzzy finder
  • Jump to directories (making cd somewhat obsolete) with fzf-marks
  • Open files without navigating to the directory
• Git for source control
  • I tried to do a merge in SVN once. Never again.
• ripgrep for searching through code
• tldr for when man is overkill
• tmux for multiplexing
  • Except on my local machine because iTerm is powerful enough
• Tokei for counting code statistics
• Vim and Visual Studio Code for text editing
  • vim-plug to manage the plugins
  • See the .vimrc for a list of plugins

Languages

• JavaScript / Node
  • Looking forward to WebAssembly though
• Python
  • Just plain fun
• Rust
  • Need more project ideas
• Go
  • On the to learn list, especially ever since I read Rob Pike's Less is exponentially more
• Haskell
  • Also on the to learn list

Desktop applications

• Duet Display to use an iPad as another display
• Evernote for notes
• iTerm2 for terminal emulation
• Karabiner for key remapping
• smcFanControl to keep things cool
• Spectacle for window management
• VLC for playing any video that I can throw at it

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