This is an extension of my dotfiles

This is an ever evolving list of tools and scripts I use and recommend, or combinations of tools I use to optimize my workflow. Some of these might be obvious to you, but it might not be to everyone!

Most of these are command line based. On a regular day, the only GUI tools I use are my browser and my email client.

• Shells
  • zsh - for the fish-like highlighting and auto completion, while still being somewhat posix compliant. Manually configuring everything makes this much faster than the monstrous oh-my-zsh.
  • bash/dash - for shell scripting. My zsh setup is also much more dependent on external plugins, so I don’t use that on servers, I just stick to bash there. My bootstrap script sets up new bash servers for me nicely, see this post for more info.
• Terminal
  • alacritty, with pretty basic defaults
• OS-stuff
  • Linux Distribution (though I’m forced to use Mac for work sometimes)
    • Arch
  • Window Managers
    • i3-gaps - am used to it at this point, and I’m a big fan of the manual tiling, especially for multiple monitors. qtile had some graphical issues for bad GUI apps, and I don’t feel like messing up my haskell installation for xmonad.
  • MacOS, I use amethyst to tile windows, and skhd as a hotkey daemon. My dotfiles are cross-platform, lots of scripts in
  • i3lock for screen lock; daemon process caches pixelated version of screen to speed up start time. Corresponding service file to lock my screen whenever my laptop suspends.
  • rofi for launching applications and switching windows
  • dunst for notifications, pretty normal configuration
  • lightdm as display manager, just so I don’t have to fiddle with xprofile
• Editors
  • nvim (primarily)
  • (doom) emacs
• I use newsboat RSS for youtube/news/blogs. I have a script to grab a youtube users RSS feed, since youtube doesn’t list that publicly. linkhandler lets me open youtube videos from newsboat using mpvf instead of visiting youtube in the browser.
• to-do list - todotxt for todos, with a rofi interface as GUI, and TUI for adding todos. The TUI I wrote forces me to specify a deadline for each todo, which I then get notified by this, which runs on my server.
• a heavily customized ranger as my file manager. My rifle.conf and scope.sh (file handler and previewer) have lots of customizations past the defaults.
• yadm to manage dotfiles. Once I have a terminal running, my bootstrap script sets up my system entirely.
• For basic image cropping, I use pinta. For general image manipulation tasks I create lots of small imagemagick scripts to do random resizes/converts. I have a larger script to convert videos to gifs, and use gifsicle for manipulating gifs.
• Lots of small ffmpeg scripts to convert between video formats. For trimming video, I’ve pretty much got the basics of the ffmpeg command down, so I use that directly.
• For previewing markdown/latex while I’m editing it, I have my own compile and live-render scripts
• Use the dict:// protocol with curl at dict.org as a dictionary with this
• On top of all the git aliases, one of my scripts I use most commonly are my giturl/gitopen scripts, which will open the current git directory I’m in in my browser.
• ix to create pastebin links from the command line
• qr, to create QR images from command line
• To host files publicly and mirror video/audio, I use my remsync and mediaproxy scripts.
• the mvlast/mvlastpic/lastdown collection of scripts, which lets me quickly move items from my Downloads/Screenshots to my current folder. Was taken from an https://rwx.gg stream; very basic but incredibly useful.
• vipe, to quickly edit my clipboard in a vim buffer
• curl "https://cheat.sh/$*", to access quick cheatsheets for unix tools
• dragon, to be able to dragon and drop items from/to the terminal. Have my dragon-sink script, which accepts and cp/mv’s files from applications, and bindings in ranger to drag files into my browser.
• ldm, to do basic drive mounting for external drives/USBs
• my own password generator
• A bash script (bgproc) with an infinite loop which runs in the background instead of cron (uses my evry tool to schedule tasks).
• my own terminal playlist manager using fzf/mpv to store playlists for local music in local text files
• my own url shortener with this script
• imgur-uploader to quickly upload images online, with a script to upload my most recent screenshot to imgur
• mpv/chatterino to watch twitch, see here
• Browsers
  • firefox-developer-edition, with extensions:
    • Productivity
      • vimium-ff. Learning vimium has virtually killed the mouse for me. Especially the f binding, which highlights all clickable items and lets me click something with a keybind. I now sit feet away from my laptop with mechanical keyboard in hand, reaching over only for horrible sites which don’t comply to the HTML standard (looking at you, clicking the next episode button on Netflix)
      • RES, to make reddit manageable, though I don’t go to reddit much these days.
      • Violentmonkey so I can add bits of JS to sites I want to fix.
      • Refined Github for general Github improvements.
      • Stylus, so I can dark mode common websites.
      • Dark Reader, so I can dark mode every website I visit. Does have considerable overhead, so I prefer finding CSS through stylus for websites I visit often.
    • Privacy
      • uBlock Origin to block ads.
      • DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
  • I use lynx to do quick duckduckgo searches without leaving the terminal
  • I’m somewhat required to test websites in chrome, so I use chromium to do that.