awesome-devtools

A list of awesome developer tools and apps that I use.

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Act
Run github actions locally
Algernon
An open sourve web sever with rendering markown and much more out of the box.
aria2
A command line downloader with fast speeds
Bat
A cat alternative with syntax highlighting and much more.
Broot
A modern
Cava
A audio visualizer for the terminal, with loads of features

Antimicrox
Assign game controller input to keys on the computer.
Blender
A piece of free and open source software that enables a full pipeline for people wanting to build useful items with 3d in computing, and also has vfx and video editing built in.
Bottles
Software that is helping manage windows software running on linux with a great GUI.
gimp
A free and open source replacement to photoshop.
Godot
A free and open source game engine that allows to create both 2d and 3d games intuitively.
Lmms
A DAW with advanced features for power users, fully open source and free.

App IdeasProject-based-learning + Ideas
A list of ideas to make an app to serve to users.
Awesome listsLearning resources
Lists about many interesting and explorable topics.
Build your own xProject-based-learning + Ideas
A tool that helps you learn to program with tutorials for building projects
Ebookfoundation ebooksLearning resources
A list of free ebooks to study and learn from.
Open source ideasProject-based-learning + Ideas
A list of ideas people advertise to check out and take inspiration from.
Project based learningProject-based-learning + Ideas
A list of example projects that can be hacked upon to create an application.

Bash-it
A full featured bash frameworks that comes with batteries and a plugin system out of the box.
Oh-my-bash
Another bash framework which tries to replicate oh-my-zsh for bash.
Pocketbase
Database in a file

Carbon
A tool to make beautiful pictures of code.
Cloud Shell
A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage.
Draw.io
An open source whiteboard and diagramming tool that I use to plan projects and sketch outlines.
Excalidraw
An open source web whiteboard. I personally use it for notes.
Farside
A redirection service that allows to load balance and choose between multiple privacy friendly alternative frontends
Free-prog-books
A resource to find free books relating to tech.

Distrobox
A tool used to spin up multiple operating systems with access to your home sirectory and leverages container technologies like podman and docker to do so.
Docker
Simply, a web ui for docker, but is extremely feature rich, to the level that docker cli is no more necessary when this tool is used.
Podman
Another container manager, known as podman, that uses a non-root system with no daemon and a focus on the lifetime of containers.
Portainer
Simply, a web ui for docker, but is extremely feature rich, to the level that docker cli is no more necessary when this tool is used.
Vagrant
An open-source tool to provision reproducible isolated development environments using a variety of backend providers.

Fedora
A open source distribution built on linux, and combines both stability and the bleeding edge.
Linux
A open source distribution built on linux, and combines both stability and the bleeding edge.

Introduction to programming and CS basics
A good video about the basics of CS, a great reference video.

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