here’s some programming tools
I use a lot of these tools basically every day, and I feel like not many people know about them. hopefully someone finds these useful! if you have any other good links, feel free to add them.
gitignore.io - generate a .gitignore file for your git project
regexpal.com - interactive regex tester
codeshare.io - collaborate on code with multiple people editing
hastebin.com - like pastebin, but prettier and more direct. also, your posts aren’t public by default.
this wonderful stackoverflow thread describing lesser known but useful data structures
prettyrfc - the RFC is now DIAMONDS
shortcutfoo - learn shortcuts and commands for basic development tools (vim, emacs, git, etc)
data structure visualizations - this one speaks for itself
none of you motherfuckers reblogged with any of your links
so here I am with more
this is how zip archives work, visually
here’s a zip file that is 42 bytes, and expands to be 4.5 petabytes
here’s a list of useful bash tricks that Ya Boy uses literally every day
use GNU stow to store your dotfiles
holy shit check out this guy who made an open source tricorder
this is a really, REALLY good description as to how modern microprocessors work. it covers pipelining, branch prediction, and all of those other lovely CPU tidbits
a genetic algorithm that designs the best 2d cars. it’s great to help you understand genetic algorithms and what they can do
a post about the process of reverse engineering the game Yoda Stories, if you like the idea of reverse engineering things, it’s a great walk-through of the steps he took
the “file signature database”
Looks like the gauntlet’s been thrown.
Hyperpolyglot - programming language reference sheets, presented side-by-side for easy comparison
Paperscape - an interactive visualization and bookmarking tool for the arXiv
ImgOps - your one-stop image tool shop. Reverse image searches, file conversion, metadata, etc. It’s all there.
AlternativeTo.net - a search engine for software alternatives
Esolang - the esoteric programming languages wiki
I guess I pitch in some of what I like to use from time to time. I might have forgotten some, I might add to this list later again.
GitHub Gist for the Github experience for codesnippets (yes it’s a mini git repository, so cloning and changing is available)
Who doesn’t like Kanban? Here have an awesome tool to keep track of your tasks. Trello
lorempixel - Placeholder images galore
I use yeoman to bootstrap most of my webprojects
Cmder - For people stuck with Windows that want a better terminal experience
Process Explorer - Awesome alternative for a process manager for windows
