Are there any lesser-known tools you use a lot in your work?

• doomemacs

  152 18,535 9.8 Emacs Lisp

  An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker

  

Emacs for notes (org-mode) and git (magit). I've found nothing that beats those two.

• github-orgmode-tests

  245 147 4.8

  This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files

Emacs for notes (org-mode) and git (magit). I've found nothing that beats those two.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• magit

  119 6,366 9.3 Emacs Lisp

  It's Magit! A Git Porcelain inside Emacs.

  

Emacs for notes (org-mode) and git (magit). I've found nothing that beats those two.

• Postwoman

  212 60,091 9.6 TypeScript

  👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

  

• Mosh

  152 12,199 4.6 C++

  Mobile Shell

  

You should check out Mosh, which creates persistent ssh connections: https://mosh.org/

• MailHog

  47 13,327 0.0 Go

  Web and API based SMTP testing

  

Mailhog - Self-hosted SMTP server that's great for debugging email sending. You can set it as your SMTP server during development and see all outbound emails.

• peek

  48 10,058 7.6 Vala

  Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface

peek - It's a super simple tool for recording portions of your screen and producing a video or animated image

• 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.

  

• asciinema

  103 13,160 9.6 Rust

  Terminal session recorder 📹

  

Asiinema - Another screen recorder but for you terminal.

• stitches

  80 7,691 3.9 JavaScript

  [Not Actively Maintained] CSS-in-JS with near-zero runtime, SSR, multi-variant support, and a best-in-class developer experience.

  

Not so much a tool but if you’re into styled components and liked the Styled System approach then I found Stitches amazing to work with.

• mantine

  223 24,233 9.9 TypeScript

  A fully featured React components library

  

Likewise for Mantine. It’s the only ui component lib I’ve used that hasn’t pissed me off.

• tmux-launcher

  2 17 0.0 Ruby

  Tmux launcher app written in mruby

If I'm allowed to push my stuff for a bit, I've semi-recently made a simple launcher app for tmux (written in mruby).

• hivemind

  1 955 3.1 Go

  Process manager for Procfile-based applications (by DarthSim)

Hivemind for managing multi-process stuff (that isn't covered by Docker).

• httpie

  116 31,842 6.6 Python

  🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (by httpie)

  

HTTPie for HTTP queries.

• asdf

  340 20,448 7.9 Shell

  Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

  

ASDF for installing stuff like Ruby, Erlang, Elixir, etc.

• htmx

  565 32,656 9.6 JavaScript

  </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

  

Looks a bit like htmx, but I'll definitely check it out

• glow

  60 14,718 6.9 Go

  Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻

  

Recently, I've been using glow for pretty-formatting and previewing markdown in the terminal. And there's more cool terminal focused projects on the charmbracelet github

• autocomplete

  164 24,265 9.6 TypeScript

  IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell

  

Also Fig for terminal autocompletion is pretty nifty and looks nice.

• clockwork

  30 5,500 8.3 PHP

  Clockwork - php dev tools in your browser - server-side component

90% of what I do is Laravel work and for every project, I use Clockwork. It puts all of the stuff below into a tab in Chrome's DevTools.

• MailCatcher

  15 6,181 6.1 Ruby

  Catches mail and serves it through a dream.

Mailhog sounds a lot like mailcatcher

• the_silver_searcher

  59 25,720 0.0 C

  A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

Maybe it does belong here, but the silver searcher has saved me a lot of debugging time on client projects searching for all instances of a used function or component. Like, I can't believe there was a time when I didn't use it.

• svgo

  29 20,349 9.0 JavaScript

  ⚙️ Node.js tool for optimizing SVG files

  

svgomg is just a web frontend for svgo. You can run it locally on the command line.

• takeout

  5 1,570 6.4 PHP

  Docker-based development-only dependency manager. macOS, Linux, and WSL2-only and installs via PHP's Composer... for now.

  

Tighten Takeout) for small supporting container (Meilisearch/Redis)

• phpmon

  8 3,019 9.0 Swift

  Lightweight, native Mac menu bar app that helps you manage multiple PHP installations, locate config files and more. Also interacts with Laravel Valet.

phpmon like node nvm for PHP.

• DBngin

  21 879 0.0

  DB Engine

  

DBNgin is a great tool for spinning up a DB (MySQL/Postgres/Redis)

• ffmpeg.wasm

  76 12,983 8.9 C

  FFmpeg for browser, powered by WebAssembly

  

• 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.

  

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