Computer Science Tools

Zellij

Terminal multiplexer, similar to Tmux.
Very "discoverable" and easy to figure out how it works.
Now with "multiplayer sessions": https://zellij.dev/news/multiplayer-sessions/

asdf

LaTeX

Replit

https://replit.com/ Online REPL in many languages. Might be useful from an iPad / a computer I don't own.

Stow

Helps config dotfiles? Take care of symlinking for you. https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/html_node/Resource-Files.html http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html

IRC Clients

Weechat

https://weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_quickstart.en.html

Add an IRC server

/server add {server_name} {server_url_no_port}

Connect with SSL

/set irc.server.{server_name}.ssl on

Connect to IRC server

/connect {server_name}

Join IRC channel

/join {channel]

Switch buffers

Alt -> or Alt <-

Resources

https://christine.website/blog/irc-stuff-nixos-2021-05-29

Irssi

WebAssembly

(or Wasm)

Wasmer

https://docs.wasmer.io/ Running WebAssembly on the server

WAPM

https://wapm.io/ WebAssembly Package Manager

WASI

https://wasi.dev/

The WebAssembly System Interface

Lunatic

https://lunatic.solutions/

Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly

Resources

WebAssembly Concepts

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Concepts

Pandoc

https://pandoc.org/ "If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife."

Basic usage

pandoc -o output_file input_file

Default is a "document fragment" (ex: HTML file with no <html>, <head>…)

For a complete ("standalone") document: pandoc -s -o output_file input_file

Org-specific doc

https://pandoc.org/org.html

Templates

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#templates

Virtual Machines

virt-manager

https://virt-manager.org/

Firecracker MicroVMs

https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/ Fast microVMs for serverless computing (AWS Lambda…)

VPNs

Tailscale

https://tailscale.com/

Install: https://tailscale.com/download
Enable IP forwarding: https://tailscale.com/kb/1104/enable-ip-forwarding/
sudo tailscale up --advertise-exit-node to run Tailscale as an exit node
sudo tailscale up --exit-node={ip_address} to run Tailscale with {ip_address} as exit node

Mobile Development

React Native

https://reactnavigation.org/

Flutter

https://github.com/go-flutter-desktop/go-flutter

just

https://github.com/casey/just just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands, similar to make

HTTP Clients

CLI

curl

Resources

https://antonz.org/mastering-curl/

wget

httpie

https httpie.io/hello

{"ahoy":["Hello, World! 👋 Thank you for trying out HTTPie 🥳","We hope this will become a friendship."],"links":{"homepage":"https://httpie.io","twitter":"https://twitter.com/httpie","discord":"https://httpie.io/discord","github":"https://github.com/httpie"}}

httpbin

Returns client's headers

curl https://httpbin.org/headers

{
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "User-Agent": "curl/7.77.0",
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-618168b4-0982f80d2e2330516e6d3566"
  }
}

hurl

echo "GET https://example.org" > sample.hurl
hurl sample.hurl

GUI

Postman

Went enterprise-?

Insomnia

Bruno

https://www.usebruno.com/

`restclient`

Favourite for now, great integration with Emacs

Hoppscotch

https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Kreya

https://kreya.app/

Started for gRPC actually! But supports HTTP as well

Accounting

Beancount

Image Manipulation

Imagemagick

http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/index.php

Diagrams

https://kroki.io/

Mermaid

https://mermaid-js.github.io/ https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli

graph TD
    A[Front-end] -->|HTTP Request| B(Server)

https://mermaid.live/

Remote Desktop

VNC

TigerVNC

Chrome Remote Desktop

https://remotedesktop.google.com/

TeamViewer

RustDesk

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk

Build Tools

Makefiles

hello:
    echo "hello world"

cd ~/tmp/makefile_tutorial && make

echo "hello world"
hello world

hello: dependency
    echo "hello world"

dependency:
    echo "run dependency first"

cd ~/tmp/makefile_tutorial && make

echo "run dependency first"
run dependency first
echo "hello world"
hello world

Bazel

https://bazel.build/

Recommended way to install is via bazelisk

Diagrams

PlantUML

https://plantuml.com/

Create diagrams from text

Ditaa

https://ditaa.sourceforge.net/

Create diagrams from ASCII art

Penrose

https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/

Create diagrams with separate definitions of domain, substance and style

Misc

Beautiful images from code

https://ray.so/
https://carbon.now.sh/
GIF from Terminal: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs

Workflow Automation

Pipedream

https://pipedream.com/

Connect APIs, remarkably fast. Stop writing boilerplate code, struggling with authentication and managing infrastructure. Start connecting APIs with code-level control when you need it — and no code when you don't.

Windmill

https://docs.windmill.dev/ Open source alternative to Pipedream?

n8n

https://n8n.io/

Huginn

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!

saasform

https://github.com/saasform/saasform "Saasform is a state-of-the-art website for your SaaS, with authentication, payments and common growth & marketing tools."

S3 Email

📫 A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES https://github.com/0x4447/0x4447_product_s3_email

Mailchimp => AWS email

Combine pdf

pdfunite, part of poppler
pdfunite in-1.pdf in-2.pdf in-n.pdf out.pdf
"Just make sure you remember to provide out.pdf, or else it will overwrite the last file in your command."

`pdf-diff`

https://github.com/serhack/pdf-diff

A tool for visualizing differences between two pdf files.

MDX

https://mdxjs.com/

Tangram

https://github.com/tangramxyz/tangram Tangram is an all-in-one automated machine learning framework.

Static Website With Built-In SQL

https://www.evidence.dev/ Business Intelligence for Modern Data Teams Beautiful reports synced to your data with just SQL and Markdown

`jc`

https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/

CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.

MailCrab

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/86/introducing-mailcrab

MailCrab is an email test server for development, written entirely in Rust.

Competitive Programming

Websites

HackerRank

LeetCode

TopCoder

CodeForces

Competitions

ICPC

IOI

Ways to Exercise

Exercism.io

https://exercism.io/ Interactive learning of multiple languages Really smart, can code in your own text editor

Advent of Code

PocketBase

Open Source backend for your next SaaS and Mobile app in 1 file

https://pocketbase.io/

Computer Science Tools

Text editors

Git

Tmux

Terminal

Zellij

asdf

LaTeX

Replit

Stow

IRC Clients

Weechat

Add an IRC server

Connect with SSL

Connect to IRC server

Join IRC channel

Switch buffers

Resources

Irssi

WebAssembly

Wasmer

WAPM

WASI

Lunatic

Resources

WebAssembly Concepts

Pandoc

Basic usage

Org-specific doc

Templates

Virtual Machines

virt-manager

Firecracker MicroVMs

VPNs

Tailscale

Mobile Development

React Native

Navigation

Flutter

just

HTTP Clients

CLI

curl

Resources

wget

httpie

httpbin

hurl

GUI

Postman

Insomnia

Bruno

restclient

Hoppscotch

Kreya

Accounting

Beancount

Image Manipulation

Imagemagick

Diagrams

Mermaid

Remote Desktop

VNC

TigerVNC

Chrome Remote Desktop

TeamViewer

RustDesk

Build Tools

Makefiles

Bazel

Diagrams

PlantUML

Ditaa

Penrose

Misc

Beautiful images from code

Workflow Automation

Pipedream

Windmill

n8n

`restclient`

`pdf-diff`

`jc`