This is a list of some of my favorite tools that are maybe lesser known. This file exists mostly so I can keep track of all the things I need to remember I have in my toolbelt.

Duckdb

TODO

Obsidian

TODO

Helix Editor

TODO

SingleFile

firefox chrome

A browser extension that saves a webpage into a single standalone HTML file. This includes resources such as images (as far as I know it will base64 encode them into the html). I use this extension quite a bit. One of my least favorite things is when a webpage I have bookmarked goes away from the internet, so I use this tool to save webpages I want to reference later. E.g. recipes, docs, etc.

croc

github

Send files/folders to someone else directly and easily.

Install with any of these:

curl https://getcroc.schollz.com | bash
sudo pacman -S croc

zoxide

github

Fuzzy cd.

nvtop

github

Like htop but for GPUs.

Install with:

sudo pacman -S nvtop

starship

github

A fancy and fast shell prompt.

Install via:

curl -fsSL https://starship.rs/install.sh | bash

sshb0t

github

Use this to keep authorized keys on servers for easier ssh access. Run with docker:

docker run -d --restart always \
    --name sshb0t \
    -v ${HOME}/.ssh/authorized_keys:/root/.ssh/authorized_keys \
    r.j3ss.co/sshb0t --user [YOUR GITHUB USERNAME HERE] \
    --keyfile /root/.ssh/authorized_keys

fzf

github

A fuzzy file finder that can integrate with your shell to give you fuzzy searching with ctrl-t and ctrl-r.

Installation options:

brew install fzf && $(brew --prefix)/opt/fzf/install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.git ~/.fzf && ~/.fzf/install
sudo pacman -S fzf

rg

github

Extremely fast searching of files and directories.

Installation options:

brew install ripgrep
pacman -S ripgrep
cargo install ripgrep

dust

github

A better version of du. Run it just with:

dust some-folder

To get a nice display of what’s taking up space inside that folder.

Installation options:

cargo install du-dust

pandoc

Convert to and from a large number of markup formats. I like standalone html pages with embedded CSS. You can do this with the following command:

pandoc --self-contained --table-of-contents --to html5+auto_identifiers
       --standalone INPUT.md --output OUTPUT.html

This will even base64 encode included images and embed them into the resulting HTML. If you don’t want a table of contents just leave off the flag. If you want to embed a CSS file add the following to the above command:

--css=YOURCSS.css

For a good example of some nice CSS check out this gist. Also pandoc can generate HTML presentations from markdown.