Onboarding tips (tools, books, ...)

This page is more of a personal “map” for me to take note and revisit tools that I sometimes need to reinstall in new machines I use for work (both at home or in the workplace). It usually helps me quickly setup and prepare for new monster projects when I’m in Tester-Commando mode.

Feel free to have a look! Or also suggest something new.

“Tools”

• ohmyzsh bash (I stopped using ohmyzsh and zsh, read more about it here. Also useful bash cheatsheet of stuff I tend to forget, shell (.bashrc) settings and terminal color
• homebrew
• curl, wget, and insomnia
• mcfly
• k6.io
• vim and vim settings (also clone scripts project). Also gVim, vim-plug, goyo.vim
• basic folder struct (personal, screenShots, work, books)
• git and ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"
• aws cli - (supporting multiple aws cli profiles)
• vs code (and plugin for running with Windows Subsystem for Linux)
• keepass, for Mac and for Windows
• lynx browser and firefox
• skitch
• audacity, obs studio, vlc, gimp
• beekeeper-studio, dBeaver,
• nvm use fnm instead, nvm was slowing down terminal opening
• virtualbox and UTM for mac
• kubectl
• kubetail
• docker
• dive (for discovering ways to shrink the size of docker image)
• jq and xpath
• beekeeper-studio
• hyperfine for benchmarking shell
• foobar2000
• tailscale

Other tools not in current/recent use:

• poetry
• intellij community edition and my settings.jar
• maven 3 and java 8
• calibre
• kafka console tools
• teampapersnap
• exporter and dunkirk
• adb tools
• charles, desktop and iOS app
• bat, gawk
• recode (to convert from html weird chars to ascii and vice-versa)
• scrcpy (to provide display of android devices connected via USB)
• websocat (Netcat, curl and socat for WebSockets)

useful windows software

• wiztree or windirstat
• usb device tree viewer
• crystal disk info to check health status of hdd / ssd
• hwmonitor to check temperatures and voltages
• gVim

Useful browser extensions: uBlock origin, Open multiple urls, ModHeader, noscript, i still dont care about cookies, user agent switcher

macos:

• speed up new terminal tab loading time
  • More on this: when using bash be sure to keep things in .bash_profile so it’s only loaded once instead of .bashrc where it’s loaded on every command. Also install
• weird “command not found” on mac os terminal / non breaking spaces - due to non breaking spaces
• get rid of useless macos screenshot preview
• keep power on while lid closed on battery
• hide dock instantly

windows:

• disable processor performance boost mode. If option is not there change registry settings, Open Registry, Follow the path: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00\be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7 and change Attributes from 1 to 0
• deactivate annoying sound in “windows bash”
• sublime on Windows Subsystem for linux
• Installing windows11 on virtualbox - bypass weird issue “This PC can’t run Windows 11”

miscellaneous:

• weird “failed to set locale” error on bash
• multiple ssh private keys
• install ruby on ubuntu the less crappy way
• supporting multiple git ssh keys
• folder exclude setting for Sublime
• Relieving your Python packaging pain

VS Code packages:

batisteo.vscode-django, bibhasdn.unique-lines, donjayamanne.python-extension-pack, erd0s.terraform-autocomplete, eriklynd.json-tools, euskadi31.json-pretty-printer, fabiospampinato.vscode-diff, hashicorp.terraform, hbenl.vscode-test-explorer, hookyqr.minify, lextudio.restructuredtext, littlefoxteam.vscode-python-test-adapter, magicstack.magicpython, mikestead.dotenv, ms-azuretools.vscode-docker, ms-dotnettools.csharp, ms-mssql.mssql, ms-python.python, ms-python.vscode-pylance, ms-toolsai.jupyter, ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers, ms-vscode.test-adapter-converter, nidu.copy-json-path, njpwerner.autodocstring, poeticandroid.vscode-poetry, ptd.vscode-unitymeta, redhat.vscode-commons, redhat.vscode-yaml, shardulm94.trailing-spaces, streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker, tht13.python, torn4dom4n.latex-support, visualstudioexptteam.vscodeintellicode, waderyan.gitblame, wholroyd.jinja, yzane.markdown-pdf, yzhang.markdown-all-in-one

Sublime packages:

"Babel","BlameHighlighter","BracketHighlighter","Color Highlighter",
"Cucumber Completion","Cucumber Step Finder","Cucumber","Dockerfile Syntax Highlighting","FileDiffs",
"Gherkin (Cucumber) Formatter","Git","Handlebars","JsFormat","Kotlin",
"LoremIpsum","Merge Windows","Multi Select Alphabetizer","Package Control",
"PackageResourceViewer","RegReplace","SCSS","Sass",
"Swift","SyncedSideBar","TrailingSpaces","TypeScript Syntax"