Category: Tools

Continuous file sync between your own devices, encrypted in transit, with nobody's server holding a copy. Plus the Android situation, which changed in 2024 and trips up everyone arriving from…

A compose file turns a long docker run command nobody can remember into something you can read, version and hand to someone else. Plus the version numbering that will confuse…

Caddy gets you HTTPS in a two-line config file with no certbot, no cron job and no renewal to forget. That is a real saving, and there are still good…

Your shell history is a text file that truncates, loses concurrent sessions and cannot tell you where or when a command ran. Atuin replaces it with a database, and optionally…

A terminal interface over git that makes staging individual lines, interactive rebasing and stash juggling take seconds. What it is good at, and why you should not learn git through…

procs searches by name, shows which ports a process is listening on, and prints a readable tree. Where it helps, and why ps is still what every script and every…

HTTPie sends JSON by default and prints readable, coloured responses. The syntax translated, where curl remains the only sensible choice, and the faster reimplementation worth knowing about.

One tool that speaks S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, SFTP and dozens more. Copy versus sync, the client-side encryption layer, and the command that deletes files at the other end.

sd does one job — substitution — with modern regex syntax, no delimiter to choose and no BSD-vs-GNU differences. Where it helps, and the large part of sed it deliberately…

delta does not compute diffs — it renders them, with syntax highlighting, line numbers and a side-by-side view. What to put in your gitconfig, and why diff is still what…