Top 10 Productive Hacks for Software Developers

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  • zsh-autosuggestions

    Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

  • zsh-autosuggestions: suggests commands as you type based on history and completions

  • zsh-syntax-highlighting

    Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

  • zsh-syntax-highlighting: provides syntax highlighting for the shell zsh, red for invalid, and green for valid commands:

  • WorkOS

    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.

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  • ohmyzsh

    πŸ™ƒ A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

  • A terminal multiplexer is a program that allows its user to multiplex one or more virtual sessions, so the user can have several sessions inside one single terminal like tmux, iterm, terminator etc. It is a must-have in your toolkit to gain greater control over the shells by working with a terminal multiplexer. There are a lot of widely available shells such as Bash, Zsh, and fish shells. Switching to fish or even Zsh is one of the best things you could do to make your programming experience more pleasant. It’s faster and much more customizable than Bash.

  • zsh-z

    Jump quickly to directories that you have visited "frecently." A native Zsh port of z.sh with added features.

  • ZSH-z: It is a command-line tool that allows you to jump quickly to directories that you have visited frequently in the past or recently.

  • fish-shell

    The user-friendly command line shell.

  • A terminal multiplexer is a program that allows its user to multiplex one or more virtual sessions, so the user can have several sessions inside one single terminal like tmux, iterm, terminator etc. It is a must-have in your toolkit to gain greater control over the shells by working with a terminal multiplexer. There are a lot of widely available shells such as Bash, Zsh, and fish shells. Switching to fish or even Zsh is one of the best things you could do to make your programming experience more pleasant. It’s faster and much more customizable than Bash.

  • Today-I-Learnt

    Here I track my learnings! ✍🏻 πŸ“š

  • Short notes and learnings (I maintain short notes of my learnings on Github)

  • espanso

    Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

  • Tools like espanso allow substituting strings like date to present date, etc.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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