What's your setup like to make your life easier?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/bioinformatics

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  • bat

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

  • Bat - Basically Cat, but better

  • sublime_text

    Issue tracker for Sublime Text

  • Sublime Text for quick, light-weight editing

  • 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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  • thefuck

    Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

  • The Fuck - Autosuggestions or tab completion works out-of-the-box in Fish; but this is a good alternative for such fuck-ups

  • iTerm2

    iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

  • Terminal: iTerm2

  • icecream

    🍦 Never use print() to debug again.

  • Ice Cream - Better debugging

  • fish-shell

    The user-friendly command line shell.

  • Shell: Fish

  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

  • VSCode - For coding in both Python and R - configured with extensions for Linting, Debugging, Intellisense, auto-completion, formatting etc (happy to share recommendations on these plugins!). Also use VSCode for remote development via SSH; as well as Jupyter Noteboooks natively. Liveshare has been amazing for pair-programming.

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    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.

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  • ohmyzsh

    🙃 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.

  • radian

    A 21 century R console

  • I use the same extension you linked, along with: - Radian for syntax-highlighting & auto-completion - VSCode-R-Debugger - httpgd for serving graphics via HTTP

  • VSCode-R-Debugger

    R Debugger Extension for Visual Studio Code

  • I use the same extension you linked, along with: - Radian for syntax-highlighting & auto-completion - VSCode-R-Debugger - httpgd for serving graphics via HTTP

  • httpgd

    Asynchronous http server graphics device for R.

  • I use the same extension you linked, along with: - Radian for syntax-highlighting & auto-completion - VSCode-R-Debugger - httpgd for serving graphics via HTTP

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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