Generally useful tools

Compiler Explorer

Wireshark

Mosh: the mobile shell

  • remote terminal app, replacement for SSH terminals

Remote access to servers

Tailscale

Tailscale

self-hosted, OS version: Headscale

Narrowlink - A Rust Based Remote Access Platform - announcements - The Rust Programming Language Forum

Innernet by Tonari

Introducing 'innernet' | tonari blog

Version control

Jujutsu docs

Data provenance

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Media

ExifTool by Phil Harvey

MediaArea

Python notebooks

Jupyter

Troubleshooting: jno opens in browser but blank (not opening .ipynb file): python - Jupyer notebook is not opening folder - Stack Overflow

Shell

dotfiles

dotfiles/.path at master · jessfraz/dotfiles

shell optimization

How fast is your shell? - by Thorsten Ball - Register Spill profiling - How can I profile a Bash shell script slow startup? - Stack Overflow Jessie Frazelle on X: "ghostty is such a nice thing, that its got me questioning wtf i do in my .bashrc that is so fucking slow, a thought i never had with other terminal lord, grant me the will power to not go down this rabbit hole" / X

LLMs

Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.

Ollama

Quickstart - Llama API

API keys

Get API Key - Anthropic

Get API key | Google AI Studio

Overview - OpenAI API

Different Types of API Keys and Rate Limits — Cohere

Your First API Call | DeepSeek API Docs

Mistral AI API | Mistral AI Large Language Models

Usefluencers(!)

Tools I use for side projects - by Nina Panickssery

Engineering

You and Your Research

What Engineers Know and How They Know It - Wikipedia