What are the not-so-obvious tools that you don't want to miss?

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JSON Web Token

#Identity Provider #Identity And Access Management #SSO 276 social mentions

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Synergy

i've been using synergy for like 10 years and while it's not perfect, it works really really well.

#Mouse Tools #Productivity #Software KVM 281 social mentions

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NixOS

I resisted learning nix for a long time, because it does have a really steep learning curve. Once you get to the other side of the learning curve, it's been an extremely valuable investment. At an individual level, it's been great to be able to easily move configuration between machines, and being able to safely roll back to earlier configurations is nice too. The bigger benefit for managing my machines with nix is that you get a single unified way to configure all sorts of different parts of your system. You don't need to spend time remembering the syntax for iptables, or systemd unit files, or sshd configs. It's all managed through nix.

#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools 246 social mentions

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DevToys

Also recently came across DevToys which has a lot of handy tools in a clean interface.

#Productivity #Open Source #Developer Tools 10 social mentions

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Sentry.io

And on a much different level of tool: Sentry is great. It was one of the first things that I set up at my new job after having gotten used to it at my old one. Being able to basically be like "file a task for me and send a slack alert if this error condition ever happens" is really nice.

#Error Tracking #Exception Monitoring #Monitoring Tools 53 social mentions

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ngrok

Ngrok - Easily create temporary HTTPS domains for your locally running dev services. This really comes in handy if you're developing against 3rd party services that require HTTPS for webhooks. I'm sure there's a million other uses though.

#Testing #Localhost Tools #Webhooks 369 social mentions

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Maccy

Using Maccy on Mac. Absolutely essential to me.

#Clipboard Manager #Mac #Productivity 49 social mentions

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Barrier

Barrier is this but free and open source. It's actually forked from Synergy before they went to a closed paid model.

#Remote Desktop #Remote PC Access #Mouse Tools 347 social mentions

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pre-commit by Yelp

I like to integrate static analysis tools (like actionlint) into pre-commit, at least in any situation where a Git repository is involved. Just before you commit something is a pretty convenient time to run those checks.

#Git #Kids #Development 142 social mentions

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PlaceKitten

Http://placekitten.com is surprisingly useful in web development, and funny and cute to boot.

#Placeholder Images #Design Tools #Web Development Tools 20 social mentions

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Sizzy

#Browser Testing #Website Testing #Developer Tools 18 social mentions

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Arc

#Web Browsers #Customisable Web Browser #Web Development Tools 60 social mentions