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There are so many things to do through the command line in your terminal! Here are a list of packages or tools that I already have or want to later try out for me to come back to.

Currently:

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• VHS - cute gifs generated while typing in terminal
  • additionally there is also asciinema rec
• Figlet - create large text headers within terminal
  • can be additionally used with toilet
• Vim - my default command-line editor of choice
• Wikit - wikipedia search anything within terminal

Later:

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• Typer - a typing test in your terminal
  • !
• Bubble Tea - a powerful TUI framework
• Watchman - watches files & records/triggers actions when they change
• ChezMoi - manage your dot files across different devices!
  • see how it compares with other dot files solutions.
  • a video on dot files!
  • here is the git repo
• Kava - visualizer for music in your terminal

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Via this blog table of content with tl;dr summaries:

• fish shell - easy to use, beginner-friendly shell
• starship - a great prompt that requires no setup
• z - quickly jump around your filesystem
• fzf - general-purpose fuzzy search
• fd - like find but better
• ripgrep - like grep but better
• htop and glances - system monitoring tools
• virtualenv and virtualfish - Python virtual environment management
• pyenv, nodenv, and rbenv - manage different versions of Python, Node, and Ruby
• pipx - install Python packages in isolated environments
• ctop and lazydocker - monitoring tools for Docker
• colordiff and diff-so-fancy - like diff but with colors
• tree - for presenting the content of a folder
• bat - like cat but better
• httpie - like curl but better
• tldr - simplified "man pages"
• exa - like ls but better
• litecli and pgcli - like sqlite3 and psql but better
• mas - CLI interface for App Store
• ncdu - disk usage analyzer