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Ben's Tools!

System Administration

  • nmon - Monitor all system resources at once
  • ncdu - Disk usage for directories
  • htop - Better than top
  • Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 with EBS - Simple directions for how to create and mount a filesystem from a block device.
  • Ubuntu or Debian!
  • Locust - Load testing with Python and a web GUI

Python

  • arrow - Better dates and times for Python
  • iPython Notebook - Save iPython sessions for later
  • ipdb - Step-by-step debugging in Python
  • Requests - Simple HTTP requests in Python

Emacs

Shell

MySQL

OS X

  • Remap Caps Lock to Control!
  • ShiftIt - Maximize and manage windows better in OS X
  • iTerm - Deals more nicely with tmux than Terminal
  • Sequel Pro - Query and manage MySQL from OS X
  • More interesting key mapping - I don't use these, but they're interesting
  • Beamer - Send movies at full quality from your computer to Apple TV (better quality than AirPlay)

Prototyping/Desgin

  • POP - Prototyping on paper
  • Sketch - Better than Photoshop for wireframing and design
  • Skitch - Quickly annotate and share screenshots
  • Google Fonts - Downloadable and web-friendly fonts
  • The Noun Project - Free and premium vector icons

GIS

  • PostGIS - GIS indexes for Postgres
  • GeoDjango - GIS support for Django
  • TileMill - Design beautiful custom maps with CSS-like syntax
  • MapBox - Customizable maps for web or mobile
  • QGIS - General GIS tool
  • twofishes - Foursquare's coarse geocoder based on GeoNames data
  • GIS data sources
    • OpenStreetMap - Free wiki map of the world, including lots of hyperlocal data
    • Natural Earth - Global country and state/province polygons, also includes other vectors and rasters for the world
    • tz_world - Timezone polygons
    • GeoNames - Free global datasets of points and point-based US ZIP codes
    • Maponics - Best premium provider of neighborhoods and ZIP code polygons
    • TIGER/Line - Official US data about school districts, counties, cities, states, ZIP codes, roads

Things people have told me but I haven't tried yet

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