My toolbox

January 01, 2016

I'm a polygot pragmatic programmer, I choose the best tool for the job. Following are the list of tools I use on my HP Pavilion Notebook

System

Debian OS - Initially, I got started with Ubuntu 9.04 and stayed with it until 11.04. But over a period of time, I got tired of having to keep with the latest version of the OS. I wanted a stable distro that had less releases than Ubuntu. That's when I found out Debian 6. Since then I am sticking with it. I use Debian 10 with Gnome 3 desktop as my primary OS. If you want to try GNU/Linux, I still recommend you to get started with Ubuntu. Switch to Debian once you're familiar with the Linux way of doing things

KeePassX - To generate and store passwords. I prefer stand alone, open sourced, desktop only password managers. I don't use password managers on mobile.

Browsers & Add-ons

My browser configuration - browser-configurations

Firefox - for personal and casual surfing.
Firefox developer version - for all my development works.
Chromium - For thing that work only on chrome, I use Chromium instead of Chrome because of the lesser tracking

Text Editor/ IDEs

WebStorm - For all Node/JS related works
PyCharm - For all Python works
VS Code - for making quick edits. My configurations here
Emacs - the editor that I'm constantly learning. My .emacs config here

DB visualizers

MongoDB Compass - cross platform GUI for MongoDB
Sqlitebrowser - GUI for SQLite database when building android app.

Utility Tools

Toolbox - For Managing My WebStorm, Android Studio, and PyCharm projects.
Meld - For occasional code comparison. I like its 2 & 3 way comparision between files and folder.
Shutter - For taking and annotating screenshot.
Apparix - For bookmarking folders in terminal. After bookmarking you can go directly to the project by to project1 than painstakingly typing cd ../../github-repos/npms/project1. You can find the resource file that holds all the location details at $HOME/.apparixrc