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I use my own tools haha. There's a tool I created myself, that helps you to detect how a website was built – mycodelesswebsite.com
Ice packs and little fans. They make my computer go faster, because Linux.
If we're allowed to get a bit metaphorical with the word "tool," it's listening. Yes, I know, that doesn't really count as a tool. I am the tool.
Textpad 6.x for Windows is a powerful tool to search in LOG files, even in code files ... recurse subfolders and other options may be helpful.
Probably using Keyboard Maestro for some code snippets and aliases that I like to have synced across my machines.
Yes, there are other tools, I even have some of them but the muscle memory of the shortcuts is firmly planted in my brain and they just work.
For Git operations, I use VS Code purely for making commits and resolving merge conflicts. For anything else, I use the Git CLI in Bash. I've used GUI alternatives before, like the GitHub Desktop app, Source Tree, and they've all lacked features in one way or another. I end up using the CLI anyway, so deviating is just a waste of time. I wish it wasn't the case, but that's the reality I've found.
switch to ripgrep, come to the dark side :D
Okay, hear me out - VS Code.
Surprised? No.
excalidraw.com
I use this for like wire frames or mocks or to take notes too. It is awesome but simple to use.
I do all git and docker operations on vscode.
It feels 'wrong to open an empty vscode to stop a container but Its quick and awesome
I take notes inside Gmail’s drafts.
Code/SQL generation by Excel/Sheets spreadsheet.
Also I used whatwpthemeisthat.com/ a lot when I did wordpress dev.
'Meld' tool to compare two folders. By this I mean when a repo is used as a dependency in another repo, and I made changes in the folder present in node_modules, how do I make sure to not loose any of these changes and push them to the actual repo? Using this meld. I got to know this from one of my colleague some years back and I still use it.
xfce4-timer-plugin to run my pomodoros 🍅
Whimsical.com, for brainstorming simple wireframes, flowcharts and mind maps all in one canvas.