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12 Developer Tools That Keep My Workflow Smooth

Emmanuel Mumba on September 23, 2025

Staying productive as a developer isn’t easy. Between Slack pings, endless tabs, and debugging sessions that eat half the day, it’s easy to feel bu...
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Ayama

Nice tips! Thx OP!

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Emmanuel Mumba

Glad you found it helpful.

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Helena Figueiredo Costa

Thank you Emmanuel for the list! Always want to find new tools to enhance my dev workflow!

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Emmanuel Mumba

These days so many tools to help our workflow.

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Emmanuel Mumba

You are welcome Helena. Lets keep building.

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jeffdev03

Very insightful stuff!

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Lynn Mikami

Excellent post!

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Klaudia Kováčová

All right, nice list! Any of them are Open Source and budget friendly to students like me?

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Ananya Balehithlu

Want to know that as well!

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Umang Suthar

One more angle I’ve been exploring is how dev workflows evolve when compute itself becomes transparent and scalable (think running AI tasks directly on-chain without switching stacks or paying cloud overhead). It’s been eye-opening to see how much friction disappears when models or logic feel like assets you actually own.

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Elfreda

This list is quite good, and there are several tools I already use. To be honest, the AI assistant has made the biggest difference in my workflow.
Last week, when I was restructuring an old codebase, I was feeling overwhelmed. I tried giving the entire file to ChatGOT, asking it to clarify the logic and provide suggestions for restructuring. It really saved me at least half a day of debugging time.

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Rahul Barate

Thanks, man. Actual useful tools

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Aoda Zhang

Cool,dude,let me give them a try

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Julia Shevchenko

The excalidraw feels nice, I've actually bookmarked it. Thanks!

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roshan sharma

Super helpful stuff, I love seeing tools people actually use (not just hype).
out of those 12, which one do you think has saved you the most time so far?