Tell HN: My Favorite Tools

1. Fathom Analytics

   1 93 7,890 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?

2. InfluxDB

   influxdata.com featured

   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

3. NetNewsWire

   2 33 8,767 9.7 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?

4. obsidian-releases

   3 1,699 11,288 9.9 JavaScript

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

   

5. aider

   4 106 31,950 10.0 Python

   aider is AI pair programming in your terminal

   

6. bat

   5 207 52,305 9.3 Rust

   A cat(1) clone with wings.

   

7. yadm

   6 85 5,633 8.2 Python

   Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

   

8. fd

   7 190 37,640 8.6 Rust

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

   

9. CodeRabbit

   coderabbit.ai featured

   CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

   

10. vifm

    8 37 2,862 9.6 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.

    

11. tldr

    9 275 54,890 10.0 Markdown

    📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

    

12. fzf

    10 427 69,645 9.7 Go

    :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

    

13. neovim

    11 1,427 88,900 10.0 Vim Script

    Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

    

14. ripgrep

    12 364 51,855 7.6 Rust

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

    

15. spotify-tui

    13 63 17,993 0.0 Rust

    Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀

    

16. obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

    14 52 4,970 9.6 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.

17. SaaSHub

    www.saashub.com featured

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

    

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