Developer and Power Users Tools¶
Inspired by Scott Hanselman’s 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
MacOS¶
- Homebrew - Package Manager for macOS
- iTerm2 - terminal emulator
- VSCode is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux
- Postgres.app is a full-featured PostgreSQL installation packaged as a standard Mac app
- Anki - flash cards
Dev Tools¶
- sdkman is a tool for managing parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits on most Unix based systems
- sbt - Scala/Java build tool
- maven - Java build tool
- jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor
- Postman - powerful REST API client
Notes, Wiki and Diagrams¶
- Joplin - open source note-taking app
- Material for MkDocs - Markdown-based documentation static site generator
- PlantUML is an open-source tool allowing users to create diagrams from a plain text language
- Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them
- Mermaid - JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically