A collection of tools, scripts, browser extensions, etc. that I've found make my life easier.

useful.md

Browser Extentions

• Tabli
  • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabli/igeehkedfibbnhbfponhjjplpkeomghi
  • straight forward tab manager that allows quick-closing for tabs
• Lock Tab
  • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lock-tab/jnikalcnjojfkpleicbncjmnieimjlfe
  • lets you lock a tab and prevents accidental closing.
  • (As of 4/18, open the options and disable the "hit message" to rename tabs - this breaks the functionality)
• Typio
  • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/typio-form-recovery/djkbihbnjhkjahbhjaadbepppbpoedaa
  • Auto-saves input you put into web forms, so that if you lose your session suddenly (or just want to revisit the content later) you can pull it from memory
• EditThisCookie
  • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/editthiscookie/fngmhnnpilhplaeedifhccceomclgfbg
  • Super-powered cookie manager
• Form History Control
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/form-history-control/?src=search
  • Firefox alternative for Typio, allows for a history and control over form entries.

Applications

• Cacher
  • https://cacher.io
  • Tool for managing snippets and GitHub Gists (see web tools below)
• Postman
  • https://www.getpostman.com/
  • Hand-crafted, artisinal HTTP requests. Build any request you can imagine, and test APIs like a pro.
• Keybase
  • https://keybase.io
  • Secure messenger and file storage. Creates a method of establishing trust between people online, collaborating with those people, and storing secure content on your devices.

Scripts/Command-Line Utilities

• AWS-Launcher (Mac OS)
  • https://github.com/kwent/aws-launcher
  • Creates a collection of links that you can add to your dock to quickly launch an AWS service
• Taskbook
  • https://github.com/klauscfhq/taskbook#--taskbook
  • Command-line task manager
• Swaks
  • http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/
  • Swaks is a featureful, flexible, scriptable, transaction-oriented SMTP test tool
• Bash prompt
  • export PS1="[\[\033[0;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[0m\] \[\033[32;1m\]\W\[\033[0m\]]\$(__git_ps1 \" \[\033[01;30m\](%s)\[\033[00m\]\")\n\[\033[01;34m\]λ\[\033[00m\] "

Web tools

• Dillinger
  • https://dillinger.io/
  • Markdown editor with live preview
• Gists
  • https://gist.github.com
  • Online code/snippet manager. Great place to store one-off scripts that don't need their own git repo

Git Tricks

• Aliases

[alias]
    unstage = reset -q HEAD --
    discard = checkout --
    nevermind = !git reset --hard HEAD && git clean -d -f
    uncommit = reset --mixed HEAD~
    save = commit -m
    resave = commit --amend
    invert = revert
    last = log -1 HEAD --format=format:"%Cred%H"
    summary = status -u -s
    graph = log --graph -10 --branches --remotes --tags  --format=format:'%Cgreen%h %Creset• %<(75,trunc)%s (%cN, %ar) %Cred%d' --date-order
    history = log -10 --format=format:'%Cgreen%h %Creset• %s (%cN, %ar)'
    clg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative
    branchout = checkout -b
    tags = tag
    branches = branch -a
    stashes = stash list
    remotes = remote -v
    prestage = diff -w --word-diff=color
    precommit = diff --cached -w --word-diff=color --word-diff-regex='[^[:space:]<>]+'
    move = mv
    remove = rm
    unmerged = branch --no-merged
    unstash = stash pop
    what = show -w
    untrack = rm -r --cached
    rewrite = rebase -i
    amend = commit --amend
    back = checkout "-"
    contributors = shortlog -s -n
    filetrail = log --follow -p -w
    mergetrail = log --ancestry-path --merges
    unmerged = diff --name-only --diff-filter=U

• Command Prompt Modifications

sudo curl -s -o /etc/profile.d/git-completion.bash https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
sudo curl -o /etc/profile.d/git-prompt.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
# add to ~/.bash_profile:
export PS1="$PS1 $(__git_ps1 " (%s)")"

Links

• PromQL For Humans
  • A reference for Prometheus Query Language