10 Useful tools in the developer/administrator world—2023/3

As developers/administrators, we’re always searching for new tools to help us work smarter, not harder. In 2023, there are 10 tools that have risen to the top of the list for their effectiveness and ease of use:

1. Jsoncrack

• GitHub — AykutSarac/jsoncrack.com: ⭐️ Transform data chaos into clarity with JSON Crack — the ultimate JSON visualization solution.

2. QuestPDF

• GitHub — QuestPDF/QuestPDF: QuestPDF is a modern open-source .NET library for PDF document generation. Offering a comprehensive layout engine powered by concise and discoverable C# Fluent API. Easily generate PDF reports, invoices, exports, etc.

3. Bat

• GitHub — sharkdp/bat: A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

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4. fd

• GitHub — sharkdp/fd: fd is a program to find entries in your filesystem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. While it does not aim to support all of find's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases.

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5. grex

• GitHub — pemistahl/grex: grex is a library as well as a command-line utility that is meant to simplify the often complicated and tedious task of creating regular expressions. It does so by automatically generating a single regular expression from user-provided test cases.

6. tldr

• GitHub — tldr-pages/tldr-The tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools, that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages.

7. cheat.sh

• GitHub—chubin/cheat.sh is a command-line tool that allows users to quickly look up the usage, examples, and parameters of specific commands in the terminal. It supports a large number of programming languages, tools, and operating system commands, and provides various examples contributed by the community.

8. ripgrep

• GitHub — ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern. By default, ripgrep will respect gitignore rules and automatically skip hidden files/directories and binary files.

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9. dive

• GitHub — dive A tool for exploring a docker image, layer contents, and discovering ways to shrink the size of your Docker/OCI image.

To analyze a Docker image simply run dive with an image tag/id/digest:

10. excalidraw

• GitHub — excalidraw An open source virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard. Collaborative and end-to-end encrypted.

Create beautiful hand-drawn like diagrams, wireframes, or whatever you like.