Favorite Dev(?) Tools | 2020

Things have changed a lot in the past 3 years, since i made the last blog post.
I have growed a lot as a proffesional and my workflow keeps changing all the time.
Interesting times in the world, in the midst of a pandemic remote work is on the rise.

So it’s time to revisit some of the tools i use as of today that help me be more productive.

All of the following tools below are open source

• Tilix

  Favorite terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface guidelines.

• HTTPie

  HTTPie is a user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.

• Diagrams

  Diagrams lets you draw your cloud architecture using Python.
  It supports most major public cloud providers and also has support for OpenStack & on-prem nodes.

• Ulauncher

  Application launcher for Linux written in Python.
  Spotlight/Alfred alternative

• tldr

  A more user-fiendly man pages.

  Has this ever happended to you?

Now you could avoid this situation and execute the following.

$ tldr tar

tar

Archiving utility.
Often combined with a compression method, such as gzip or bzip.
More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar.

- Create an archive from files:
  tar cf target.tar file1 file2 file3

- Create a gzipped archive:
  tar czf target.tar.gz file1 file2 file3

- Create a gzipped archive from a directory using relative paths:
  tar czf target.tar.gz -C path/to/directory .

- Extract a (compressed) archive into the current directory:
  tar xf source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz]

- Extract an archive into a target directory:
  tar xf source.tar -C directory

- Create a compressed archive, using archive suffix to determine the compression program:
  tar caf target.tar.xz file1 file2 file3

- List the contents of a tar file:
  tar tvf source.tar

- Extract files matching a pattern:
  tar xf source.tar --wildcards "*.html"