Tell HN: My Favorite Tools

• Fathom Analytics

  89 7,448 2.5 Go

  Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact.

  

A few apps that are a joy to use:

https://ia.net/writer for writing.

https://usecontrast.com/ for checking contrast.

https://sipapp.io/ for picking colors.

https://nova.app/ for editing code.

https://cleanshot.com/ for screenshots.

https://getpixelsnap.com/ for measuring elements on screen.

https://netnewswire.com/ for reading things via RSS.

https://panic.com/transmit/ for file transfers.

https://usefathom.com/ for web analytics.

https://balsamiq.com/ for wireframes.

What else?

• NetNewsWire

  26 7,859 9.3 Swift

  RSS reader for macOS and iOS.

  

A few apps that are a joy to use:

https://ia.net/writer for writing.

https://usecontrast.com/ for checking contrast.

https://sipapp.io/ for picking colors.

https://nova.app/ for editing code.

https://cleanshot.com/ for screenshots.

https://getpixelsnap.com/ for measuring elements on screen.

https://netnewswire.com/ for reading things via RSS.

https://panic.com/transmit/ for file transfers.

https://usefathom.com/ for web analytics.

https://balsamiq.com/ for wireframes.

What else?

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• obsidian-releases

  1,652 7,956 9.9 JavaScript

  Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

  

• aider

  61 9,450 9.9 Python

  aider is AI pair programming in your terminal

• bat

  195 46,497 9.5 Rust

  A cat(1) clone with wings.

• yadm

  81 4,779 2.4 Python

  Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

• fd

  172 31,581 8.8 Rust

  A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• vifm

  35 2,633 9.5 C

  Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.

  

• tldr

  262 48,406 10.0 Markdown

  📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

  

• fzf

  407 59,739 9.6 Go

  :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

• neovim

  1,384 76,465 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

• ripgrep

  348 44,901 9.3 Rust

  ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

• spotify-tui

  62 16,542 0.0 Rust

  Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀

• obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

  51 3,367 9.3 TypeScript

  A plugin to edit and view Excalidraw drawings in Obsidian

I think I have somewhere around 1k notes. Startup time is not my concern as I keep it open all the time. It seems like I bumped into https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/issu... tl;dr: Minimal theme doesn't get along with Excalidraw.

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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