… that I like

Daily

cmder

• https://cmder.net/
• fixes the windows shell; use this instead of cmd
• get the big one with git; now you have a bunch of UNIX tools too

GitFiend

• https://gitfiend.com/
• it’s a bit incomplete (you’ll need the CLI)
• makes 70% of the/my git workflow “not suck”

hg (aka Mercurial)

• https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
• DVCS
• has a GUI by default
  • git people hate it
• I prefer using it for git
  • git people hate it
• uses an immutable db by default
  • git people hate it
• built for source code and blows up on 100mb+ files
  • git people hate it
• the GUI has been vaguely “portable” in the past
  • I copied the program to a pen drive and I was able to operate it at University

KDiff3 - it’s in hg

• http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
• it’s a windows diff tool
• when writing text comparison unit tests, I;
  1. dump mismatches to files into the build folder
  2. emit an error message with a CLI to invoke KDiff on the mismatches

Visual Code

• https://code.visualstudio.com/
• text editor with all-the-features
• has mechanisms for turning it into an IDE
  • you can setup build commands but in a script
  • error matching; but from a script/regex
  • I haven’t used it as much as I’d like
• faster than Atom :‘( but both are M$ now

Build

fips

• http://floooh.github.io/fips/
• C/++ et al build automaton
• uses CMake/python and “smooths the edges” that those two leave behind

sbt

• https://www.scala-sbt.org/
• it can be a bit byzantine to extend, but, it’s blazingly fast

Languages

CoffeeScript

• https://coffeescript.org/v1/
• looks a bit like a less-verbose python
• compiles to JavaScript
• v1 compiles to ES5 that DukTape can use
  • I’ve successfully embedded v1 in a C/++ application
  • … have/am building a weird like-Unity3D eDSL from it
• can dump AST nodes
  • I would love to interpret those directly
  • also; add a do-notation to the nodes

DukTape

• https://duktape.org/
• works like a second-generation Lua
• it’s an (ES5) ECMAScript engine in “single source” build-able

• it’s C, but, there’s no build script; just drop it into your project

• needed a CMake/#define tweak to get it to run in Windows 7

# make it work on Windows 7
add_definitions(-DDUK_USE_DATE_NOW_WINDOWS)

Open JDK

• https://adoptopenjdk.net/
• their 11 runs smoother than Oracle’s
• no. more. warnings. no more neck-beard whinging

Documentation

Mermaid

• https://mermaidjs.github.io/
• documents, but, you write them like markdown
• has a live editor
  • … which can create markdown
  • it encodes your work
  • creates a markdown image ref to that
  • wraps the image ref in a link to the editor
• there are some PanDoc integrations

PanDoc

• https://pandoc.org/
• write .md then translate to .tex
  • … then use an outer.tex to include the .tex
• amazingly simpler than writing everything in .tex
  • there are multiple ways to use Mermaid in it
• … and I can \cite{whatnot}

Hosting

GoGS

• https://gogs.io/
• host-your-own GitHub super easily
• runs on Windows/Linux x86/ARM

source hut

• https://sourcehut.org/
• yet another me-too GitLab/GitHub
  • you can host your own - but I haven’t tried
• smoler and lighter than the other two
• supports mercurial
• has CI et al
  • … but I’ve not had viel glück with them

Changelog

2020-12-12

Nested things and added sbt and GitFiend sections

2020-03-31

Initial version