Tools I use

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Tools

Table of contents

• Terminal applications
  • Benchmarking
  • Databases
  • Development
  • Docker
  • Documentation
  • Filesystem
  • Language-specific
  • Profiling
  • System administration
  • Utilities
  • Web
• Websites
  • Regular expressions

Terminal applications

Benchmarking

hyperfine

A command-line benchmarking tool

Databases

OctoSQL

OctoSQL is a query tool that allows you to join, analyse and transform data from multiple databases and file formats using SQL.

Development

Caching

sccache

sccache is ccache with cloud storage

Configuration

Environment

direnv

An environment switcher for the shell

Statistics

tokei

A program that allows you to count your code, quickly.

Docker

dive

A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

Documentation

tldr clients

tealdeer

Very fast implementation of tldr in Rust

tldr++

Fast and interactive tldr client written with go

Filesystem

broot

Get an overview of a directory, even a big one

A real multitool:

• fuzzy finder
• size examiner
• command dispatcher

GitHub

Filetype-specific

CSV

xsv

A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.

Finders

fd

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’

fselect

Find files with SQL-like queries

sd

Intuitive find & replace CLI

sk

Fuzzy Finder in rust!

Size (du-like)

diskus

A minimal, fast alternative to du -sh

dust

More intuitive version of du in rust

Viewers

bat

A cat(1) clone with wings.

exa

A modern version of ls.

hexyl

A command-line hex viewer

Language-specific

cargo plugins

cargo-bloat

Find out what takes most of the space in your executable.

cargo bloat --release -n 10

cargo-cache

Display information on the cargo cache. Optional cache pruning.

cargo cache --top-cache-items 5

cargo cache --autoclean

cargo-clippy

A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code GitHub

cargo-deps

Cargo subcommand for building dependency graphs of Rust projects.

cargo-edit

A utility for managing cargo dependencies from the command line.

• cargo add
• cargo rm
• cargo upgrade

cargo-expand

Subcommand to show result of macro expansion

cargo-make

Rust task runner and build tool.

cargo-outdated

A cargo subcommand for displaying when Rust dependencies are out of date

cargo-release

Performs release best-practices, including:

• Ensure the git working directory is clean.
• Bump the version in Cargo.toml
• Run cargo publish (if not disabled)
• Create a git tag for this version
• Bump version for next development cycle
• git push

cargo-update

A cargo subcommand for checking and applying updates to installed executables

cargo install-update -a

cargo-web

A cargo subcommand for the client-side Web

Profiling

memory-profiler

A memory profiler for Linux

System administration

Cloud management

doctl

Command-line tool for DigitalOcean

Utilities

pastel

Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

Web

miniserve

For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!

ffsend

Easily and securely share files from the command line. A fully featured Firefox Send client.

Websites

Regular expressions

Rustexp

A Rust regular expression editor & tester