Random Ramblings

Useful Tools

Most of the tools here will revolve around linux, and most every one of them I wish I had heard of earlier.

Visual Studio Code (if you just want something that works)
IntelliJ for Java / Kotlin
Spacemacs: the best of both Emacs and Vim, with loads of easy to install layers, from markdown to coq.
Neovim: A forked version of vim, which is mostly just the same.

Arch Linux (if you have the time, inclination, and friends available for configuring and debugging)
Ubuntu (if you want stability)

sl: the steam locomotive
fish: terminal as an alternative to bash.
zsh: terminal alternative with backwards compatibility.
k2pdfopt: format pdfs better for E-readers.
unzip: does literally one thing.
feh: an easy way to display a photo
transset-df: change opacity on a window.
ImageMagick: an all-in-one utility for doing everything from screenshots with import to making videos from images.
tree: prints out a directory tree from the current working directory.
screenfetch: displays system information.
htop: command-line task manager.
ripgrep: faster version of grep written in rust.
udiskie: mount USBs in a better way.
network-manager: the only nice way to do wifi.
redshift: make your screen less blue at night.
elinks: read the browser in your computer.
youtube-dl: for grabbing videos or sound from youtube.
r2: for decompiling.
GraphViz: for drawing graphs (vertex-edge).

Vim keybindings in a web-browser CVim, Vim Vixen, etc.
Tree style tabs, along with disabling the tab bar on top.
ublock for add block.
rainbow parenthesis so you can actually read lisp.
powerline so you can have a cool little arrow at the bottom of vim, terminal (with zsh), or i3status-rs.

LaTeX for formatting anything written: resumes, homework, projects, slideshows with Beamer.
xelatex for extra fonts.
Python, but more importantly,
numpy, scipy, matplotlib, jupyter,
BeautifulSoup,
Pillow,
requests.
R for anything statistics related.
Racket for anything computational.
Haskell if you want your program to be a beautiful butterfly.
Sagemath

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