gitbutlerapp/gitbutler
A desktop git client that keeps several unrelated changes on separate branches without switching.
holmgr/cargo-sweep 💎 hidden gem
Deletes old build files from one project folder or a whole disk, by age, toolchain or size.
charmbracelet/gum
One command that gives a shell script menus, confirmations, text fields, spinners and styled output, leaving the script a plain script.
dandavison/delta
Makes the output of git diff readable, with syntax colouring, line numbers, word-level highlighting and an optional side-by-side view.
mikefarah/yq
Queries and converts YAML, XML, TOML and JSON from the command line, with a jq-like syntax.
kellyjonbrazil/jc
Converts the output of about 180 command-line tools into JSON, YAML or Python dictionaries.
ducaale/xh
Sends web requests from a terminal in short readable commands, and is the maintained way to keep the habit HTTPie invented.
grafana/k6
Generates web traffic from JavaScript test files kept beside the code, so a load test is repeatable rather than something somebody once did on a laptop.
tbillington/kondo 💎 hidden gem
Finds the rebuildable dependency and build folders that old projects leave behind across twenty-odd ecosystems, and shows the list before deleting anything.
Byron/dua-cli
Reports what is taking up disk space, much faster than the standard tool, with an interactive mode that can delete.
Orange-OpenSource/hurl
Runs and tests HTTP requests written in a plain text file, with captures and assertions.
rclone/rclone
A command-line program that copies, syncs and verifies files across more than seventy kinds of cloud storage.
dathere/qsv
A fast command-line toolkit for sorting, joining, checking and describing CSV files, with around 140 commands.
rest-sh/restish 💎 hidden gem
A command-line tool for calling web APIs that builds short commands from the API's own description and remembers a login for each service.
veeso/termscp
A two-panel terminal file explorer that connects to remote machines over eight protocols, with saved connections.
bashly-framework/bashly 💎 hidden gem
Describe a command-line tool's commands, arguments and flags in one YAML file and it generates a standalone shell script with the parsing, validation and help text written.
noahgorstein/jqp 💎 hidden gem
A terminal window where a jq filter is written against a JSON file and the result updates as you type.
pvolok/dekit 💎 hidden gem
It runs several long-running commands at once, each in its own panel on one screen.
ayoisaiah/f2 💎 hidden gem
Renames many files at once from a pattern, prints the full list of changes before writing anything, and can undo a rename that went wrong.
sachaos/viddy
A modern replacement for the watch command that keeps every past run, so you can scroll back through what changed and when.
sxyazi/yazi
A terminal file manager with previews of almost anything, that leaves you where you finished.
unjs/ungh 💎 hidden gem
A free unauthenticated mirror of the parts of the GitHub API most people want, answered from one web address with no account, no key and caching in front.
noborus/ov 💎 hidden gem
A modern terminal pager with fixed header rows, live following of a growing file, and search across several files at once.
jdx/mise
One tool that installs language versions per project, loads that project's environment, and runs its commands.
atuinsh/atuin
Replaces your shell history with a searchable database, with optional end-to-end encrypted sync between machines.
muety/wakapi
Your own server for coding-time statistics, compatible with the WakaTime editor plugins.
sharkdp/numbat 💎 hidden gem
A calculator that understands physical units and refuses sums whose units do not make sense.
charmbracelet/vhs
It performs a terminal demonstration from a written script and saves it as a video.
sigoden/argc 💎 hidden gem
Turns comments above bash functions into a real command-line interface with flags, subcommands and usage text, and doubles as a task runner through an Argcfile.
ast-grep/ast-grep
Searches and rewrites code by matching the syntax tree rather than the raw text, so a pattern written in the language itself finds every real match.
biomejs/biome
One fast Rust tool that both formats and checks JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS and JSON, in place of Prettier and ESLint together.
crate-ci/typos
Fast source-code spell checker with low false positives — designed to run on every commit.
casey/just
Named recipes in a justfile — 'just backup', 'just normalize' — so the command is never the thing that gets lost.
astral-sh/uv
The end of `source venv/bin/activate` — and of the Sunday afternoon lost to a broken environment.
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