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🌟 Awesome Development Environment Tools and Tips 🌟

A curated collection of tools, resources, and workflow tips to create an exceptional development environment. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, these tools can boost your productivity and enhance your coding experience.

🛠️ Tools for Admins

Manage databases, permissions, and more efficiently:

• Robomongo: Cross-platform MongoDB admin tool.
• hss: Simplifies SSH commands.

📊 Benchmarking Tools

Measure performance and benchmark code/services:

• Vegeta: HTTP load testing tool.
• wrk: Modern HTTP benchmarking tool.
• phantomas: Website performance evaluation.
• redis-faina: Instagram's Redis statistics tool.

🗄️ Data Handling Tools

Tools for managing online and offline data:

• s3cmd: Command-line tool for Amazon S3.

🛠️ Diagnostics

Tools to diagnose and monitor system performance:

• glances: System monitoring tool.
• gtop: System monitoring dashboard.
• nmon: Performance monitoring tool.

🖥️ Desktop Enhancements

Improve and customize your desktop environment:

• Alfred: Productivity app for macOS.
• Keycastr: Displays keystrokes during presentations.
• hydra: Desktop scripting tool for macOS.

📝 Documentation Tools

Simplify project documentation:

• Log4brains: Manage Architecture Decision Records (ADR) as a static website.

📝 Dotfiles Management

Organize and manage your dotfiles:

• Zach Holman’s dotfiles: Well-known dotfile repository.
• Thoughtbot’s dotfiles: Configuration files for vim, zsh, git, and tmux.

✏️ Editor Extensions

Enhance your favorite editors:

Atom

• atom-beautify: Code formatter for Atom.
• minimap: Interactive code map.

Vim

• Completor: Async autocomplete plugin.
• Powerline: Improved status bar for Vim.

Visual Studio Code

• Python extension: Official Python extension.
• Sync settings: Sync VS Code settings across devices.

🌐 Git Enhancements

Make Git more powerful:

• gh: Fast GitHub command-line client.
• hub: Git CLI wrapper for GitHub.

🛠️ Miscellaneous Tools

Useful tools that don't fit into other categories:

• ML Workspace: Web-based development environment for data science.
• HTTP Toolkit: HTTP inspection & debugging tool.

🚀 Workflow Automation

Streamline your development workflow:

• guard: File system watch tool with plugins.
• just: Task runner for project-specific commands.

📢 Notifications

Stay updated with changes:

• CatLight: Status notifier for continuous delivery builds.

🌟 Presentation Tools

Present your work effectively:

• impress.js: CSS3-based presentation framework.
• remark: Markdown-based presentations in your browser.

⌨️ Shell Customization

Enhance your command line experience:

• oh-my-zsh: Community-driven ZSH configuration framework.
• tmux: Terminal multiplexer for multiple sessions.

📂 Text Processing

Tools for working with text files:

• ripgrep: Fast search tool for text files.
• peco: Interactive filtering for command-line search.

🖥️ Terminal Tools

Improve your terminal environment:

• fasd: Quick access to files and directories.
• httpie: User-friendly HTTP client.

🚀 Orchestration

Orchestrate development environments seamlessly:

• azk: Lightweight engine for development environment orchestration.

Explore these tools and tips to create a development environment tailored to your needs and boost your productivity!