What are the not-so-obvious tools that you don't want to miss?

• frank_jwt

  354 250 3.1 Rust

  JSON Web Token implementation in Rust.

  I've usually got https://jwt.io/ and https://redkestrel.co.uk/products/decoder/ open, but I deal with x509 certs and JWTs all day long for various reasons.

• actionlint

  5 2,346 9.4 Go

  :octocat: Static checker for GitHub Actions workflow files

  I recently discovered actionlint and immediately told everyone that would listen about it. And now you are too. Static analysis for github actions, it's been pretty useful.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com

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• synergy-core

  503 9,987 7.9 C++

  Open source core of Synergy, the cross-platform keyboard and mouse sharing tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)

  

  i've been using synergy for like 10 years and while it's not perfect, it works really really well.

• nix

  370 10,814 10.0 C++

  Nix, the purely functional package manager

  

  I resisted learning nix for a long time, because it does have a really steep learning curve. Once you get to the other side of the learning curve, it's been an extremely valuable investment. At an individual level, it's been great to be able to easily move configuration between machines, and being able to safely roll back to earlier configurations is nice too. The bigger benefit for managing my machines with nix is that you get a single unified way to configure all sorts of different parts of your system. You don't need to spend time remembering the syntax for iptables, or systemd unit files, or sshd configs. It's all managed through nix.

• DevToys

  52 22,892 9.4 C#

  A Swiss Army knife for developers.

  

  Also recently came across DevToys which has a lot of handy tools in a clean interface

• Flycut

  13 2,381 0.0 Objective-C

  Clean and simple clipboard manager for developers

• rumps

  5 3,033 0.0 Python

  Ridiculously Uncomplicated macOS Python Statusbar apps

• WorkOS

  workos.com

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• bitbar

  50 17,326 3.3 Go

  Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)

• SwiftBar

  18 2,664 6.9 Swift

  Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool

  

• ngrok

  100 2,293 3.1 JavaScript

  Expose your localhost to the web. Node wrapper for ngrok. (by bubenshchykov)

  Ngrok - Easily create temporary HTTPS domains for your locally running dev services. This really comes in handy if you're developing against 3rd party services that require HTTPS for webhooks. I'm sure there's a million other uses though.

• yalc

  7 5,365 1.1 TypeScript

  Work with yarn/npm packages locally like a boss.

  Yalc - Makes it easy to mock-publish NPM packages and try them in real projects before you publish a new version to NPM.

• barrier

  616 26,059 0.0 C

  Open-source KVM software

  

  Barrier is this but free and open source. It's actually forked from Synergy before they went to a closed paid model.

• entr

  47 3,982 6.8 C

  Run arbitrary commands when files change

  entr

• Clipy

  36 7,198 0.0 Swift

  Clipboard extension app for macOS.

  

• pre-commit

  192 11,963 8.1 Python

  A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

  

  I like to integrate static analysis tools (like actionlint) into pre-commit, at least in any situation where a Git repository is involved. Just before you commit something is a pretty convenient time to run those checks.

• powerlevel10k

  291 42,736 8.8 Shell

  A Zsh theme

  zsh + powerline10k is a great starting point

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com

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