Tools

Random collection of tools and utilities I like to use most of the time.

editor

vim - well, that’s basically all I need - best editor on the planet :D
neovim - lately I have been using neovim a lot and it tends to become my default editor on most of my machines

pathogen - no need for some fancy plugin manager: just use this classic
ale - asynchronous file checking with LSP support (I used to use neomake for some time and syntastic of course)
surround - this should be built-in!
fugitive - git integration
tabular - align all the things
tagbar - tag display in a split window

git - this one is kind of obvious, right? However I git all the things!
scmpuff - add numbered shortcuts to common git commands (it can even be used for other executables as well)
tig - curses text-mode interface for git
entr - utility for running arbitrary commands when files change, very convenient if you don’t want to hassle with inotify by yourself or get lost in some tool’s configuration hell (yes, I am looking at you, watchman)
jq - command line JSON processor
httpie - super convenient command line HTTP client
nyx - convenient process watch (disclaimer: written by me :D)

zsh - the better bash
rxvt-unicode - improved fork of rxvt: my go-to terminal emulator
alacritty - cross-platform GPU accelerated terminal emulator, a very nice terminal that is slowly becoming my favorite
tmux - like screen, just better - I still don’t use it enough to be quite honest though
fzf - fuzzy command-line finder, integrates very well into zsh and vim
ag - the silver searcher - the fast and convenient alternative to ack (already better than plain grep)
ripgrep - alternative to ag in turn, that is supposed to be even faster - however I haven’t used it much yet

dwm - my most favorite window manager, see my github fork for my “config”
dunst - lightweight and customizable desktop notification (libnotify)
redshift - adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your location and day/night times
rofi - slick window switcher, application launcher and pretty much a replacement for dmenu
feh - light and simple image viewer
ncmpcpp - ncurses client for mpd
dmenu - dynamic menu for X11

tcpdump - powerful command line packet analyzer: no development system is valid without it!
dstat - versatile resource statistics tool
ipcalc - IP calculator