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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