environment
- Debian: my primary OS, and also my favorite
- tmux and [zellij]: the latter is replacing the former these days
- Emacs: pleasant text editing and file management
- fish: compared to mighty Bash, it is far more pretty, and has a far better command completion system
- nm-applet: part of NetworkManager
software development
- Cargo: central tool for Rust development
- Git: this one has won the mindshare
GUI applications
- Alacritty
- Firefox (on Debian and on Android)
- Transmission: the only torrent client I have ever used
- VLC: user interface could be a lot better
- AntennaPod: for listening to podcasts, on Android
network diagnosis
- vnstat: nifty network usage viewer
- ping: checks general reachability
- mtr: interactive traceroute tool
miscellaneous tools
- apt: Debian package management
- head and tail: included in GNU coreutils suite of tools
- OpenSSH: duh!
- Sudo: another duh!
- ripgrep: a more pleasant
grep - exa: a more pleasant, more pretty
ls - bat: a more pleasant, more fancy
cat, which also supplantsless(though it actually makes use of the latter for paging through long text) - top: a powerful and flexible process viewer, part of procps suite
- openfortivpn: to connect to work VPN
- [mdBook]: lightweight documentation system,
using it for work documentation,
and for Cargo and rustc-dev-guide documentation
(which is always served with
mdbook serve). - zola: for this blog, also always served (with
zola serve)